Summer Shimmer
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Summer Shimmer
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Fine Art
Description
A glorious day and a glorious backyard during summer shutdowns. Of course, no wildflower meadow is complete without the wonderful fresh faces of the daisies. The common roadside “weed” is the Oxeye Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), and although it's firmly established all over the country, it is considered a noxious weed in several states. So the best one to add to your meadow is what's usually called the Shasta daisy. Like the Oxeye, this one is a European wildflower, not a native North American. However, it establishes well in meadows, and gives you great bloom each summer.
Poppies are herbaceous annual, biennial or short-lived perennial plants. Some species are monocarpic, dying after flowering. Poppies can be over a metre tall with flowers up to 15 centimetres across. Flowers of species (not cultivars) have 4 to 6 petals, many stamens forming a conspicuous whorl in the center of the flower and an ovary of from 2 to many fused carpels. The petals are showy, may be of almost any color and some have markings. The petals are crumpled in the bud and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away. In the temperate zones, poppies bloom from spring into early summer.Most species secrete latex when injured. Bees use poppies as a pollen source. The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is dark blue, that of the field or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is grey to dark green.The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, grows wild in eastern and southern Asia, and South Eastern Europe. It is believed that it originated in the Mediterranean region.
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July 12th, 2020
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