Flower of the Day for a year - a Challenge!

[cheops]

And again left to right -two tired beds 8th Sept and today.

[veggiechicken]

Sorry, cheops, we won't let you retire from this thread - your flowers are too beautiful.
You can repeat post a flower on the basis that it is a "new" flower that hasn't appeared here before

[cheops]

Thank you Veggie and thank you for having such a good idea as this thread. Isn’t it wonderful to be able to peep into other’s gardens.
Okay if I have understood you correctly I can now post a flower which flowered earlier this year rather than is flowering now. In that case here are some sunflowers - a short dwarf variety called Incredible’.

[veggiechicken]

There are no rules, cheops, just a flower a day to make us happy.

[roitelet]

Cheops, you retire from work not the Thread! !!! Keep going when you can.

[cheops]

Primula denticula - gorgeous shades of lavender in early spring. I split and divide them after flowering and I now have three larges patches of them growing. More than I need or want to be truthful and next spring I will have more than two dozen divided plants that I will sadly have to dispose of.

[roitelet]

I think we should move into the plural, flowers for today. Cyclamen Neapolitan, planted a couple of corms a good few years ago and now they have self seeded almost to weed proportions, but they are beautiful!

[veggiechicken]

There'll be a lot of us wishing we lived near you, cheops.

Can you guess what my flower of the day is??

Yes, you're right, its a Dahlia.

[farendwoman]

Today’s flower is clary.
Just love the beautiful blue ones.

[rary]

Thank you Veggie and thank you for having such a good idea as this thread. Isn’t it wonderful to be able to peep into other’s gardens.

A wonderful garden cheops, thanks for sharing it with us, and yes this thread really is a good idea, but possibly you would have been better not to say, as it just encourages VC to come up with more weird and wonderful things to try

[rary]

Today my flower of the day is a rose, and like cheops I am running out of flowers to post, plus I will be clearing the garden the next dry day, if I leave it too long I wont get back into till spring as we usualy have rain twice a week, three days the first time then four the second

[rary]

Should have added this for yesterday, though its not a flower it gives some bright colour, its the berries of my honeysuckle

[cheops]

The flowers on my white currant bushes were neither striking nor did they stand out but I can remember they were all too noticeable to the pollinators. The flowers were almost indistinguishable small green ‘cups’ and appeared before the leaves of the bush had fully developed. This gave maximum access to visiting pollinators. The variety is ‘white imperial’. The flowering white currant photo was taken on the 7th May and fruiting white currant photo was taken on the 24 th July. Many of the currants were eaten off the bushes but a particularly pleasant treat in those hot summer days was a dish of mango sorbet generously laced with fresh white currants.

[veggiechicken]

My Day-lia of the Day has an earwig for company.

[cheops]

Lovely dahlia Veggie - I thought I had all the world’s earwigs but apparently not.