Flower power

The pink chestnut was out in Longmead Road yesterday morning.

But the telephone could not manage a close-up. A reminder that, for this sort of flower at least, one needs the actual flower in front of one if one is to get a grip on how it has been put together, if one is to make a decent drawing. For the moment, I puzzle about the various different colours of their middle parts.

The camassias, the flower buds of which have suddenly opened up, were an easier proposition, even if the telephone has rather lost the delicate mauve of the left hand flowers. The plants as a whole are not looking terribly vigorous, a bit weather beaten, but maybe they will pick up as the season progresses.

Six petals and six stamens, with the petals appearing to be in two whorls of three.

And lastly a rose in a pot, sourced from Wisley. Five petals and lots of stamens. Petals which look to be arranged in a spiral rather than a whorl.

For the present, I can find no trace of the purchase of the rose from Wisley, or the subsequent purchase of a large, fancy pot from Chessington Garden Centre to put it in. Maybe the right search term will come to me later.

Later on, moving on from flowers, a game of Scrabble. An odd game, with a slow scoring middle part with rather a lot of very short words, then picking up to a closing part in which I made a number of fluky scores. Resulting in a clear victory for self and a combined score of 576 - excluding some modest terminal penalty - a good deal closer to 600 than we have managed for a while. For a month, if one allows the flawed game at reference 1. With the time before that being last July.

PS: next morning: failed to turn up purchase. But I did turn up another anniversary rose which predates this one, which at least puts a lower bound on the date. See reference 2.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-flawed-victory.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/10/blooming-october.html.