February 22nd
Nature’s lovely ornaments….
I would love to have a whole yard full of these!! Wishing you all lots of lovely nature eye candy too!!
via The Dolly Mama
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February 18th
early summer in the garden
Our garden looks really scruffy now, the lawn is bare from Bramble’s activities in the winter mud and today I am re-seeding the lawn, the hanging baskets are waiting to be planted, the yucca needs re-potting – this is what it should look like later on in the year.!
Source: *Susie*
February 13th
Flowers on the footpath
These little red flowers stopped me in my tracks on my way to work and again on my way home.
February 12th
Abbey House Gardens, The Abbey House, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 9AS
Abbey House Gardens is the 5 acre former Abbey House garden and is next to Malmesbury Abbey, in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
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February 9th
Flowers By Me
I’m not really a one for shooting flowers… dead plants? Check. Weeds? Check. Flowers? Hmmm… much as I love them my photographs of them have always left me cold. Mr PC bbuying me flowers though? Had to be snapped. 
February 8th
Garden of the Gods at Sunset
Winter-y day in Colorado Springs at Garden of the Gods. The sun was setting and the red rocks cast a lovely glow.
February 5th
Flower n’ Bug…
Dyers chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria)
Common names : Golden Marguerite, Marguerite Daisy, Dyer’s Chamomile, Ox-eye Chamomile, Boston Daisies, Paris Daisies.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Anthemis
Species: A. tinctoria
It is a short-lived biennal, occurring in the Mediterranean and western Asia. It has aromatic, bright green, feathery foliage. The serrate leaves are bi-pinnatifid (finely divided) and downy beneath. It grows to a height of 60 cm.
It has yellow daisy-like terminal flowers on long thin angular stems, blooming in profusion during the summer.
It has no culinary or commercial uses and only limited medicinal uses. However, it produces an excellent yellow, buff and golden-orange dye, used in the past for fabrics.
Anthemis tinctoria is grown in gardens for its bright attractive flowers and fine lacy foliage, there is a white flowering form also but the most commonly grown form is the seed raised cultivar ‘Kelwayi’ with 5cm wide, yellow flowers on plants that grow about 65cm inches tall. The asexually propagated cultivar ‘E.C. Buxton’ is a hybrid between this species and another Anthemis species.