Grape Hyacinth 'Blue Spike' Muscari armeniacum

Grape Hyacinth 'Blue Spike' Muscari armeniacum

A vigorous bulbous perennial, muscari armeniacum boasts all of the charm of the genus with slightly larger blossoms. Commonly known as the Armenian grape hyacinth, its lush mid-green foliage is comprised of long, linear, strap-shaped leaves, with the outer leaves of each clump arching gracefully. In spring, a single, thick floral stem produces a conical spike of tiny, rotund but bell-shaped blue or white flowers. The Armenian grape hyacinth thrives in moist but well-drained soil in full sun, but needs shelter from frost and excessive wet. An excellent choice for groundcover on banks and slopes, garden edging and in rockeries. Pruning is not necessary but dividing dense clumps during summer dormancy is recommended

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Hyacinthus orientalis Yellow Hammer

Hyacinthus orientalis Yellow Hammer

Hyacinthus orientalis is the Latin name for the common hyacinth. Native to Asia, it was brought to Europe in the 16th century. The flowers are highly fragrant and this plant is often cultivated to flower at Christmas so it can be given as a gift. Hyacinths are easy plants to grow, well suited for a beginner. They grow up to around 30cm in height with narrow and thick bright green leaves and bell shaped flowers that grow in a spike atop a sturdy stem. The flowers can be various colours including blue, purple, pink or white. They like full sun or partial shade and light, moist soil with good drainage

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Dahlia Lambada

Dahlia Lambada

The Dahlia is a beauitiful showy flowering plant, often used in floristry. The flowers come in all sorts of colours and are full, large and vibrant, sure to add colour to any garden. Originating from Mexico, it is now common throughout the world and there are many different and unusual varieties. Dahlias can be prone to damage from slugs and snails. They grow fast and like well-drained soil and lots of sunshine

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Clematis

Clematis

If you want to cover a barren wall or fence, the first plants that you’ll probably think of are clematis. This wonderful group of plants can easily swathe trellises and pergolas with flowers in just one season, making them an ideal garden plant. However, if you want to avoid a bare bottom and flowers well above eye level, then there’s some dramatic pruning that will need to take place. Clematis plants fall into three distinct groups, making it easy to prune them and ensure that they continue to flower for many years. Establish what kind of clematis you have based on the flowering time and then follow the instructions for the appropriate group

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Peony Coral Charm

Peony Coral Charm

Paeonia is a genus of gorgeous flowering plants, grown for their large showy flowers. Depending on the species they can be between half a metre and five metres in height. They add a dramatic effect to the garden. They have pretty lobed leaves with pointed tips and fluffy looking flowers with lots of petals. Some species have flowers up to a foot across. They come in a range of colours, pink, red white or yellow. The nectar of the peony is present on the outside of the flower buds which can attract ants, they aren't harmful to the plant though. The peony is very popular in traditional Japanese artwork

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Dahlia Twynings Smartie

Dahlia Twynings Smartie

The Dahlia is a beauitiful showy flowering plant, often used in floristry. The flowers come in all sorts of colours and are full, large and vibrant, sure to add colour to any garden. Originating from Mexico, it is now common throughout the world and there are many different and unusual varieties. Dahlias can be prone to damage from slugs and snails. They grow fast and like well-drained soil and lots of sunshine

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Tulipa Ballade

Tulipa Ballade

Tulip is a widely grown and highly admired flowering plant. There are over 100 species of tulip and many hybrid cultivars. They're a very common garden flower, for both borders and containers and they make good cut flowers too. Tulips grow from bulbs and flower in the springtime. They can grow up to nearly 30 inches in height. The flowers are either cup or star shaped, with three or more petals. There are many different coloured tulips, some are variegated. The leaves are tall and narrow, a bluey green colour with a waxy coating. Tulips have long been associated with The Netherlands where they are cultivated on a large scale. The brightly coloured tulip fields bring in tourists from all round the world

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Amazing Flowers

Amazing Flowers

Lily Pink Flavour

Blue almost purple Hydrangea

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Stunning winter

Stunning winter

Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest - White Mountains in eastern California

Early Morning Pink - winter, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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What a good Mama

What a good Mama

Fierce baby polar bear

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Sunset on the beach

Sunset on the beach

Waves on a black sand beach

White Sands

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Antillean Crested Hummingbird

Antillean Crested Hummingbird

The Antillean crested hummingbird is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, north-east Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles

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Awesome views

Awesome views

Sunset on Mt. Hood in Oregon, United States of America

Winter sunrise in Bilzen, Belgium

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Field Flowers

Field Flowers

Daisies Field sunset

Stunning Tulip Fields in Keukenhof, Netherlands

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Silhouette photography

Silhouette photography

 One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today -Dale Carnegie

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Anemones

Anemones

Anemone is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the temperate zones. It is closely related to Pulsatilla and Hepatica; some botanists include both of these genera within Anemone

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Herbaceous Perennial Plant

Herbaceous Perennial Plant

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground. Herbaceous plants may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants die completely at the end of the growing season or when they have flowered and fruited, and they then grow again from seed

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Foxglove

Foxglove

Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials commonly called foxgloves. This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, but recent phylogenetic research has placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae. This genus is native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia, Australasia and northwestern Africa. The scientific name means "finger-like" and refers to the ease with which a flower of Digitalis purpurea can be fitted over a human fingertip. The flowers are produced on a tall spike, are tubular, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow. The best-known species is the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. This biennial plant is often grown as an ornamental plant due to its vivid flowers which range in colour from various purple tints through various shades of light gray, and to purely white. The flowers can also possess various marks and spottings

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Wild baby animals

Wild baby animals

Doe and Fawn

 ? How do I climb this tree

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Dreamy nature

Dreamy nature

Cathedral Beach, Spain

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

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Pulsatilla grandis - Greater Pasque Flower

Pulsatilla grandis - Greater Pasque Flower

Pulsatilla grandis, or the Greater Pasque Flower, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Pulsatilla of the family Ranunculaceae. It is a perennial plant that grows on calcium-rich soil in dry grasslands, in rocky outcrops, and in pine and oak forests. It flowers from February to April, in the time of the Easter (which gives it its name), with intensively blue to violet flowers. Its silk stalk is protected from the cold by velvety trichomes (hairs). Pulsatilla grandis is native to the countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and is particularly frequent in Hungary. In some of them, it is classed as threatened

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The wonders of a sunset

The wonders of a sunset

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore

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Night sky lights

Night sky lights

Hotel and Igloo Village Kakslauttanen - Lapland, Finland

Moonlight Aurora. Namsos, Norway

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Beautiful sunset

Beautiful sunset

Sunset in Alaska

Sunset boat in Honefoss, Norway

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Our wonderful world

Our wonderful world

Calanque d'En-Vau, France

Secluded Vibrance - Douglas Falls, West Virginia

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Stunning sunset

Stunning sunset

Lonely boat in a beautiful Sunset at the Canggu coastal village on the south coast of Bali, Indonesia

Swan at sunset in Hellersdorf, Berlin, Germany

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Amazing Flowers

Amazing Flowers

Hyacinthus orientalis , Yellow Queen

Dahlia , Ruby Murray

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

The ruby-throated hummingbird is migratory, spending most of the winter in southern Mexico and Central America, as far south as extreme western Panama, the West Indies, and southern Florida. During migration, some birds embark on a nonstop 900 mile journey across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean from Panama to the Gulf Coast. The bird breeds throughout the eastern United States, east of the 100th meridian, and in southern Canada, particularly Ontario, in eastern and mixed deciduous and broadleaved forest. In winter, it is seen mostly in Mexico and southern Florida

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a species of hummingbird. As with all hummingbirds, this species belongs to the family Trochilidae and is currently included in the order Apodiformes. This species is the most common type of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River in North America, normally in the east-central and middle and lower East Coast areas

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Tulipa Ballade

Tulipa Ballade

Tulipa 'Ballade' with its purple flower petals and white margins and T. ‘Ballade Dream’ with its yellow margins

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Winter wonderland

Winter wonderland

Lovely Winter

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Beautiful spectacle

Beautiful spectacle

Turquoise Stream, Havasupai Indian Reservation, Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States

The Big Hole, Kimberley in the Northern Cape, South Africa

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Red panda

Red panda

The red panda , also called lesser panda and red cat-bear, is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and south-western China that has been classified as vulnerable by IUCN as its wild population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals. The population continues to decline and is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression, although red pandas are protected by national laws in their range countries

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