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#echinops

#Echinops x ritro ‘Veitch’s Blue’
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Colour photo, dark background, contrasty light. I allowed a globe thistle to bloom and dry out in a jar, and then half the dried flowers fell off the inflorescence. So this is almost like a cross section through the flowerhead. In the middle is the stem where you see the place the flowers attached, and radiating from it, the remaining flowers, spiky brown at the base extending to deep blue petals and little tufts of pale yellow pollen. Another intact flowerhead is below it.

Globe thistle with a bit of a death star vibe. And a couple of bugs.
#Bloomscrolling #florespondence #bloomscrollingwithinsect #echinops

A globe thistle with prickly, evil-looking leaves topped by a cluster of spiky blue-green spheres, one of which has a cap of tiny white florets. A small copper and brown beetle with six legs, folded wings, and long curved antennae is poking around amid the florets. A fly-like insect sits on one of the leaves.

#Echinops x ritro 'Veitch's Blue', globe thistle
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Two globular flowers, as yesterday, the larger one opening all the way from the top to the stem, the smaller still tightly in bud.

#Echinops x ritro 'Veith's Blue', globe thistle
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

A globular flower cluster with spiky buds radiating from the core. The top most flowers are open, threadlike petals and s central guard-petal like structure. The overall colours are icy blue and green. The stem is coated in silver fur.

„Die Hummel tanzt durch das Blütenmeer, als wäre jeder Kelch ein Takt ihres Liedes.“
~ F.loki ~

📷 : 07•2025 F.loki

#hummel #kugeldistel #echinops #hummelparadies #blütenzauber #blütentanz #sommervibes #gartenliebe
#lieblingsmoment #herzmoment #seelenzeit #genussmomente #enjoythemoment #beautifulmoments #Floki_EnjoyTheMoment

„Die Hummel tanzt durch das Blütenmeer, als wäre jeder Kelch ein Takt ihres Liedes.“
~ F.loki ~

📷 : 07•2025 F.loki

#hummel #kugeldistel #echinops #hummelparadies #blütenzauber #blütentanz #sommervibes #gartenliebe
#lieblingsmoment #herzmoment #seelenzeit #genussmomente #enjoythemoment #beautifulmoments #Floki_EnjoyTheMoment

„Die Natur malt die schönsten Mandalas ganz ohne Zirkel.“
~ F.loki ~

📷 : 07•2025 F.loki

#kugeldistel #echinops #hummel #hummelparadies #blütenzauber #pflanzenliebe #naturliebe #lieblingsmoment #herzmoment #seelenzeit #genussmomente #enjoythemoment #beautifulmoments #Floki_EnjoyTheMoment

„Die Natur malt die schönsten Mandalas ganz ohne Zirkel.“
~ F.loki ~

📷 : 07•2025 F.loki

#kugeldistel #echinops #hummel #hummelparadies #blütenzauber #pflanzenliebe #naturliebe #lieblingsmoment #herzmoment #seelenzeit #genussmomente #enjoythemoment #beautifulmoments #Floki_EnjoyTheMoment

Puccinia echinopis ex Echinops sphaerocephalus

#Echinopssphaerocephalus #Echinops #Kugeldistel #globethistle #Oursin #Pucciniaechinopis #Puccinia #Rust #Rustfungus #Rost #Rostpilz #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology

A Gatekeeper butterfly on the flower of an Echinops ritro (Southern globe thistle).

#gatekeeper #butterfly #echinops #EchinopsRitro #globethistle #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #sustainable #summer #bloomscrolling #biodiversity #natural #NaturalGarden #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability

A brown and orange butterfly sits on the blue flower of an Echinops ritro (Southern globe thistle). Unusually for a butterfly, its wings are open.
There are several more Echinops flowerheads in this photograph against blurry green growth (shrubs, perennials, grasses) and an equally blurry yellow spot.

- save the humming of the bees.
I only found out a few nights ago that moths like these too, as I walked down the path and they all fluttered away before me.
I knew that the globes grow and then reach a point where they become irresistible to flies, and then their casing start to grow blue hair/flowers. which sees the flies ousted and the bees and wasps flock in.
But I never knew of their mothly magnetism.....

#garden #gardening #echinops #bees #pollen #BeeFriendly #ProEarth

Here we have a small corner of a garden, with self sown echinops, that seem to come up every year.
They are curious looking plants, starting out as a mound of green leaves that soon grown spiky and from which emerge long stems. Then the round heads, or globes, from which they get their alternate name of globe thistle, burst open. This picture has a range of heads, some small and still grey, and some showing the blue starting to appear. The bees have found them already though.
They may not be the most beautiful, or the most colourful plants in the paintbox, but they have structure and the seed heads slowly go to brown as the year wears on.
You can cut them down, and keep the seeds, and sprinkle them in another place in your garden ...
Or you can go out around your area and fling them hither and yon, then smile secretly to yourself when they start to grow next year.

@MichelPatrice
En complément : Oursin bleu (Echinops ritro, Asteraceae)
Photo prise au Jardin botanique de Montréal, affichée dans l’album «Plantes de France»
https://monde.ccdmd.qc.ca/ressource/?id=137475
#botanique #science #plante #oursin #Echinops #jardin #Montréal #Québec #Canadas #France #photo #photographie #photography

Belgium, Garden : Echinops species #belgium #garden #gardening #echinops #botanicalgarden #botanical #nature

#papillon et #échinops

#uneVieDeBerger

des dizaines de papillons sur une touffe de chardons bleus tous ronds.

Puccinia echinopis ex Echinops sphaerocephalus

#Echinopssphaerocephalus #Echinops #Kugeldistel #globethistle #Oursin #Pucciniaechinopis #Puccinia #Rust #Rustfungus #Rost #Rostpilz #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Echinops - Globe Thistle

#echinops #globethistle #flowers #nature #art #photography #flower #naturephotography #wildflower #spring #summer #naturelovers #painting #landscape #flowerphotography #garden #photooftheday #macro

Close-up of vibrant blue echinops (globe thistle) flowers with a blurry green background.

Word Search Puzzle 698

Word List : #crossly #harang #ragmen #emeutes #hilloing #subjack #echinops #casease #sulfate #ruble #birdeen #freebee #agist #ethanoyl #hemine #perfume #kotuku #place

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-698/

#Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue' aka #globethistle

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

On a black backdrop a globular flowerhead made of many many florets each of which is a cerulean bud inside a sheath of silvery-green spiky sepals. They look like they are exploding outwards from a central point. A very unusual form, it looks more like a spaceship than a flower.

Today, Cruickshank Botanic Gardens💙 #oldaberdeen #aberdeen #cruickshankbotanicgardens #echinacea #coneflower #hydrangea #ligularia #leopardplant #echinops #blueglobethistle

Four photo collage showing close ups of perennial flowers. Clockwise from top left: deep pink coloured coneflower; cream and green tinged hydrangea; deep yellow coloured leopard plant with two bumblebees on the stamens; lilac coloured globe thistle.

#Echinops x ritro, globe thistle.

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling

On a black background, a silvery-blue and -green spiky ball of unopened Echinops buds.

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