A Walk on theWild Side

When we think of gardens most people think of the cultured and manicured gardens of the botanical gardens of cities or the manicured lawns of the urban dwellers. I present to you my un-cultured garden.
This is a Sitka Rose bloom. This particular one is close to where I park and I get to see it each and every day as I either come or go from home. When we got home today, I liked the way the sun was shining on parts of it, so decided today would be a good capture the flowers day. I really should have changed out my camera lens, but I was being a tad bit lazy, and sort of in a hurry, we did have a a lot of cloud cover, and the lighting was beginning to fade. I do love how vibrant the Sitka Rose can look, it's petals and flowers may not last long but they do leave a long impression on you.

I know a lot of people think of dandelions as nothing but a 100% weed.

I used to be that way when I lived in town and had a lawn that needed to be mowed and manicured, and kept up so the Jone's would not Jones out. Here in the woods, I like them, they add a lot of color, and then when they puff out all those little pieces flying through the air to me are fascinating. Such a solid and firm looking flower, yet when it is time to seed it becomes the frailest of things. The firm bright yellow of a golden sun giving way to the global nature of a soft full moon, then scattering to all four corners of the world with the winds

When we purchased our home there was a couple of Lilac trees/bushes. We have not done anything to them, no trimming no fertilizing no maintenance on them whatsoever. We let mother nature and the moose take care of that. I tried to get a nice picture of the whole tree, but the lighting was just not being very cooperative, and of course I was using my zoom lens and not regular lens. I did however manage to get a very pleasing shot of one of the many Lilac Blossoms. I think this against the mostly blue sky with faded tree and faded cloud in the background made for a very nice zoom-in crop.

Along with the Sitka rose there are a few other plants that I just really like. This set of Lupin This are such cool looking flowers, and if you have never collected the seed from one, at the end of the season when the seed heads turn brown, pluck a couple and put them in a brown paper bag. It is so cool when they start to pop and the seeds smash into the side of the bag like popcorn popping.

This next one I keep forgetting the name of. It is a delicate looking seven pointed little white flower that grows very close to the ground. I know I have seen this flower on someone else's post somewhere on steemit, so if anyone knows the name help would be appreciated, maybe I will throw it up at NIC's next post from @snowyknight if they need something to identify. Fun little read and you can see some interesting things on occasion here was his last NIC Post from last week. It doesn't look like he has popped into Palnet yet so you have to visit him on steemit.

I am not sure how or where I would classify the native Alaskan Geranium, like the Sitka Rose, and the Lupin, this definitely rounds out the top three, but then there is the upcoming Shasta Daisies also, it is a quandary, but there is nothing wrong with having a top four. I just love the color and the shape of these flowers, the soft pastel blue and the dark veins. They are truly beautiful flowers, and they last for quite some time. I had a few more flower shots to show, but this post is getting pretty long so I think I will end it here. Below you will find links to the full sized images if you want to take a closer look. All pictures were taken and processed by me today 6-22-2019. The horizontal bar was a small section of the geranium cropped out and resized 1200 X 20, just in case you were wondering. Feel free to add it to your collection if you want.

1. Sitka Rose
2. Dandelion
3. Lilac Bloom
4. Lupin
5. 7 Petal white flower
6. Geranium

The Shasta Daisies will have to wait for the next post.