schizanthus – Owlnature

Summer flowers in August

This year everything is a little late, so also the summer flowers are at their prime only now in August.

Peony poppy. There is no summer without peony poppy flowers…

Iris hollandica or Dutch iris. Siberian iris and German iris flowers in July… and this year I have also Dutch iris flowers now in August! 🙂 They are grown from bulbs that I planted in spring this year. My first ones ever.

And there is no summer without annual mallow flowers…

Viper’s bugloss, a bit wild now – I planted the seeds last summer.

More cornflower flowers…

A busy friend.

And more schizanthus or butterfly flower or poor man’s orchid flowers…

Maltese cross or burning love, a perennial, flowering this year as well.

Tropaeolum majus or garden nasturtium or Indian cress flowering. The taste is good as well – a bit peppery. 🙂

And my first ever tropaeolum minus or dwarf nasturtium flowering.

And the Ibiza lizard lurking… 🙂

This summer I have common poppy flowers, too! My first ones ever.

I love all the colours… Another new favourite…

You tell me yours and I’ll tell you mine…

With the shadow of a peony poppy…

A nice skirt…? 🙂

-Leena

The last peony flowers, schizanthus & cornflower, bike ride 20 km…

The weather’s been warm lately and it’s been sunny, too, but it’s been really pouring down with rain occasionally, but sometimes the sun’s been trying to shine at the same time as well. Beautiful. 🙂

Now the last peony flowers. This, indeed, has been a bit different summer – we’ve had peony flowers still in August!

I missed some of the flowering of my peonies while I was in Kuusamo, but happily, there’s still been these beauties after my trip, too. 🙂

The very last ones on Thursday.

Schizanthus, butterfly flower or poor man’s orchid has been flowering lately in our garden as well. They are grown from seeds. One of my favourite summer flowers.

Daisies, too.

We have a lot of schizanthus growing this summer, they have been hit by the rain a bit…

On Thursday we took a 20 km bike ride along the lake Pyhäjärvi shoreline. It was nice. I took a picture as I was sitting by the lake for a while. 🙂

Cornflower blooming now as well, grown from seeds. Yet another favourite of mine… And hit by the rain a bit…

-Leena

On the last day of July and on the first day of August…

More pics from yesterday, and some I took today. 🙂

Monkshood, extremely poisonous from roots to the tiny hoods, and we have so much of it in our garden – this is a very traditional plant in the old gardens in Finland. The man who build this house was very much a garden man, we’ve heard, so, no wonder – the fact can be seen in our garden today…

Some sort of marigold, very small marigold.

We can’t remember what this flower is… I’ve tried to google it, but no luck with that. EDIT: This flower is clarkia or godetia, silkkikukka in Finnish. Thanks for the answer, A! 🙂

More pics of my cornflowers. Many charming colours they have…

The first cosmos flower this summer, opened today, missing one petal. I had cosmos flowers last summer, too. These are growing from seeds, of course, and I like them a lot. 🙂

Butterfly flower, schizanthus, poor man’s orchid again…

And strawflowers again. Here it can be seen that our tall strawflowers and the shorter butterfly flowers as well as tiny marigolds are tight neighbours. 😀

Yesterday evening by the lake Pyhäjärvi, after some Nordic walking and eating blueberries again. It was so nice to sit on a bench – the air was perfect, not at all warm, not at all cold. The sun was shining, but wasn’t warming, and the wind was blowing wonderfully. 🙂 And the sound of waves, just lovely…

A campfire in our garden last night. It can be said that this was my birthday campfire – it was not only the last day of July yesterday, but also my birthday (and by the way, the birthday of Harry Potter —> WTF? -Oh yes, says a Harry Potter fan (that’s me) here, aaand, it was also the birthday of J.K. Rowling herself. 😀 ) And… how old am I…? I’m actually a bit younger than Harry Potter… ;D Just a bit…

-Leena

Flowers in the morning

A nice and sunny morning today was. And so much inspiration while having my morning coffee. I’m not sure if I should warn somebody of… something… but here comes 18 pics of which 17 are flower pics. So, here’s some FLOWER POWER. 🙂

I took today’s pics before and after 9 AM, a few pics are from Friday and Saturday. First peony poppies this morning:

The first peony poppy grown from the seeds that I planted this summer. Five pics of it here… 🙂

It has grown tall.

Marvelous, colourful peony poppies…

And my ‘wild’ poppies, two more of them.

Annual mallow grown from seed. The first opened mallow flower this summer, I planted them last summer, too. Mallows are lovely. Other names for this annual mallow: rose mallow, royal mallow, regal mallow.

A Strawflower bud opening on Friday.

More strawflowers on Saturday.

Nicely rustling flowers, when you touch them. 🙂

Strawflowers this morning:

I took this pic while I was taking a break from taking pics of flowers this morning. 🙂 I was sitting on a bench, eating a banana and redcurrants freshly picked from the bush. Having some more coffee.

And more flowers this morning:

And I planted cornflower seeds, too, this summer. The first flowers are emerging from buds.

Butterfly flower, Schizanthus. Or poor man’s orchid. 🙂 Grown from seed. A tiny and an exotic looking flower.

A choker… And the flower is called red flax. It’s grown from seed in the geometric flower plantation made by a man. 🙂

-Leena