Pink Buddleia
Today is another Pink Flower Day for your Thursday viewing. While I have featured the deep red one we have, this is a little trickier to photograph well, being too close to the house. Although photographically challenging, it appears not to present any problems to bees, butterflies or other insects, which is, after all, the reason we planted it in the first place. That, and the lovely blooms, of course. We are completely bereft of butterflies, bees and other insects now (and the flowers as well, of course), but the photograph of this spear of tiny blooms brings back memories of past visitors and hopes for more for next year. Have a good day, my friends. I send out warm hugs to all. View all posts on the Home page. A Flower a Day #453
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It’s a little pink bottle brush, illustrating, once again, how creative and diverse Nature is. I can’t help but wonder why that shape? Is it, perhaps, to allow the various insects the maximum access to its little blooms? Without the need to compete for access to its nectar? I’ll hold on to that thought because I like to think that nature has a practical side as well as an aesthetic one, which of course it does, but which is easily overlooked because of its beauty. Thank you, Ellie, for bringing us both aspects.
It certainly does provide a greater surface area of flowers for a number of visitors, at least of the smaller ones, without getting in each other’s ways, that’s true. Good theory. Practical and beautiful. Interesting, because it looks quite different to the eye of an insect, too, apparently, with clearly defined pathways to the jackpot on many flowers. But we, who don’t need that roadmap get the beauty anyway. Purely for our pleasure, it seems. Thanks for that thought provoking comment, Janet.
Thank you so much Ellie. It is a lovely sprig of bright colour and cheery. Love how the pale petals focus in on the bright center. It is a little ray of sunshine today which we need but imagine how beautiful that would have looked with a blanket of snow all around it. Thanks again hope you have a good day hugs to you and Steve..
Yes, I can just imagine how it would look with a blanket of snow around it, Linda! What a contrast that would have been! Blanketed as we are today, I’m only too happy to look at it and remember the warmth of those summer days! Thanks for the lovely comment, Linda.