I’ll be honest, this photo was taken a few weeks ago. Or months. I don’t really pay attention, time does its thing whatever. Anyway, I found this while weeding in one our more exotic gardens and asked around my colleagues to see if anyone knew what it was. We thought because of the leaves, it must be a Clematis, but none of us had seen a flower like this.
After I got home I did some googling around and discovered this photo, so the centre of Clematises do do this, but is it normal to do it this much?
Like the segments of an orange. Barely a flower at all.
This has just been a week when I’ve proved how little I know about plants, right?
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I love flowers……………
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Hmm, Strange plants and strange critters. As the artist Prince (rip) said in a song, “Must be something in the water we drink.” Is any secret nuclear testing going on by you?
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We keep getting little sinkholes too. Maybe something is going on…
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It has clearly put its coat on in case it turns cold. Obvs…
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Is this a thing then? Flowers wearing coats? I feel like I’ve been getting nature all wrong!
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Of course. But they have to have Velcro – they can’t manage buttons
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Well, they should try harder! 😉
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It’s not easy being a flower
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Hey, even experts have a scope to improve!
I have been reading avidly for 25 years: my average being 1-2 books per week. Still, I have only skimmed the surface of the ocean of English and Hindi books.
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🙂
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I know very little about them. But only that they are beautiful 🌸
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They are! 😀
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I’d say it was unusual
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Maybe I found a mutant!
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