#saxifrage

[chicinsilk]

Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1953. "Saxifrage" Pleated afternoon dress in natural silk crepe from Buche.

Pierre Balmain Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1953. "Saxifrage" Robe d'après-midi plissée en crêpe de soie naturelle de Buche.

Illustration : René Gruau

[orofeaiel]

Wholeleaf Saxifrage

[flowerishness]

Saxifraga × arendsii (var. ‘Touran Pink’) and Aubrieta deltoidea (purple rock cress)

Pink and purple are an attractive combination and both of these little rockery plants do well artistically in terms of ‘companion gardening’. They bloom at the same time (although the the rock cress is a couple of days behind) and their flowers are exactly the same size. These photos were taken in front of a recently-built house and this lovely display looks like the work of a professional landscape-gardener to me.

[photozoi]

After the hail, and the ensuing downpour...

sunshine!

The Pacific Northwest. If you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes...

[faguscarolinensis]

Saxifraga stolonifera / Creeping Saxifrage at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[philoursmars]

Dans les Pyrénées béarnaises, le Cirque de Lescun, au fond de la Vallée d'Aspe. Christine et moi, nous nous y promenâmes il y a déjà une bonne quinzaine de jours...

Notre destination : le Plateau de Sanchèse, Côté nature, un Traquet pâtre (Monticola saxicola) et un rare Saxifrage à longues feuilles, plante endémique des Pyrénées)

[blogbirdfeather]

Meadow Saxifrage - Saxifraga-comum (Saxifraga granulata)

Serra da Estrela/Portugal (10/05/2023)

[Nikon D7100; ∑150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro with Flash Nissin Di 700A; 1/250s; F20; 400 ISO]

[thebotanicalarcade]

n31_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: A synopsis of British plants, in Mr. Ray's method, with their characters, descriptions, places of growth, time of flowering, and physical virtues.. Newcastle upon Tyne.1744.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48319628

[my--little--corner]

April 2023

"I've been told when I get older

That I'll understand it all

But I'm not sure if I want to."

[wherekizzialives]

The Small Things Spreading Joy: June 2024

[mothmiso]

Scotland (2) (3) (4) (5) by Tobias Verfuss

Via Flickr:

(1) Lobster Cottage, Crail. (2) Gyles House, Pittenweem. (3) Patch of saxifrage near St. Fillan's Cave in Pittenweem. (4) Rabbits in synchrony (5) Westshore, Pittenweem.    

[theyoungwaldschrat]

Golden saxifrage

[mellpenscorner]

Modern Writing Advice: don't load your readers down with a bunch of different names! Keep things simple so they can remember what you're talking about.

JR²T Himself: And here are these three mountains. Now listen to Gimli wax poetic about them and their names and histories in three different languages, then refer to the Extra Educational Material at the end of your volume to see what he's talking about.

[flowerishness]

Saxifraga rosacea (Irish saxifrage)

Spring is just roaring along out here on the west coast and new flowers are showing up every day. In it's European homeland this little saxifrage is found on the banks of mountain streams but it also grows on cliffs and scree slopes. Now it adds a little color to rock gardens and and it's an attractive ground cover too. Incidentally, the Latin word saxifraga means "stone-breaker" and it was used in ancient times as a medicinal herb to treat bladder and kidney stones.

[geopsych]

Early saxifrage blooming on a little shelf on a cliff, from one of my walks yesterday. The cliffs were also loaded with native columbine.

[adventurealldays]