Back Porch Table Flowers...

I must have flowers always and always!

Claude Monet - I totally agree!

For what is life without the beauty of flowers?

Picked flowers are not just for the inside of the home...

The gorgeous bowl of lilies is on the back porch mosaic table...

This lily is an Amaryllis Belladonna variety.

Also known as 'Naked Ladies', because the flowers emerge first without the modesty of any foliage.  

Easy to grow and fabulous for picking!

This variety is stunning in creamy whites

with a golden yellow throat.

I have cut two flower head stems close to the heads and placed them in a bowl of water.

There are numerous Amaryllis Belladonna colours available now, with many hybrids.

A native of South Africa, they have solid stems and are the true Amaryllis Belladonna Lily.

Grandma probably had the more common pink one in her garden!

I must have flowers always and always! 

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In Love with Shabby Wrought Iron And Finials...

Finials...

Shabby and worn.

 Beautiful...

with their aged patina.

 With hints of rust and lichen...

Finials in all their glorious shabbiness...

 With intricate detailing...

standing below them...

 Timeworn and lichen-covered...
I am in LOVE 
with shabby wrought iron and finials!

Photographs taken by Tracey Lee Cassin at Collingwood, Golden Bay, New Zealand
Early Settlers Historical Cemetery.

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Candy Floss Coloured Rhododendron Flowers...

 I'm calling her 'candy floss'.
Because the petal colourations 
are reminiscent of that melt in your mouth treat!

 Actually, the real reason is...
I simply don't know her label name!

 But this huge handful 
of delicious candy floss coloured flowers...

Is a large shrub rhododendron, 

and Mia Bella Gardens just could not keep her a secret!

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