While I didn’t get the effect I was hoping for, fate has granted this picture a floral, textural, whirly, fantasy feel that has something going for it. I don’t know if the perspective makes it dreamy or nightmarish, but I do like the way the colours work together and the sweeping of the grasses.
A landscape crop excluding the dark flowers below would be a more conventional approach and it’s easier to pick out the blur of the approaching bee. Alliums are irresistible to bees, even when they are little more than buds, as here.
The landscape crop directs the eye better. It’s less messy, but for me, less engaging, while the square crop draws me in, having a Through the Looking-Glass effect.
As July is perspectives month, courtesy of Becky, (who is sharing a wonderful trompe l’oeil today – or trample oil as the spellcheck would have it), I’m posting both crops. What’s your perspective?
Susan Rushton 
I like the landscape crop better, too. Makes me want to plant more alliums for the bees!
The flower shows often have stands full of different kinds, and they are always covered with bees.
Oh I love the top shot that looks like it’s sitting on a bed of small dark flowers with tiny purple ones sprinkled in. Both the photos are lovely though, thanks for sharing 😊
It’s interesting to read the different viewpoints. Thank you for commenting.
These are beautiful flowers
I’m glad you liked them.
I like the square one better. Shows more of the grass and thus ads more of green with the purple shades of the flowers. GREAT photo!
It’s a happy accident – I don’t know quite what I was expecting but it was not that.
the alliums are gorgeous! 🙂
I like the way the bottoms of the flowers are green.
I actually like the square one better. It has the grass sweeping around, drawing the eye around a circle. I think the additional pink color is great too. 🙂 It’s a really pretty photo.
Thanks for the reassurance. 🙂 It is more of a quirky crop compared to the landscape.
It’s fabulous picture, dreamy. Looks like a great pot! (prefer the square one)
A pot made from grass would be interesting, if not practical. I saw some different types of grasses growing right through a cow parsley umbel yesterday. That was a strange sight. I tried to capture it but it was too windy.
I prefer the square, and the way the swirling grasses suck you into the image, like a whirpool.
It’s disorienting, but in a good way. 🙂
DREAMY and beautiful. I love the square one best – like Karen/Elizabeth says above “like a whirlpool” (a dreamy one). ❤
My guess is that a lot of the flower lovers like the top picture because there are more flowers in it – you can never have too many!
I love Alliums, and you are certainly right that they are very popular with pollinators. There is such a great variety of wonderful Alliums that bloom in both spring and summer. They are used beautifully at Lurie Garden, among many other places.
They seem to be popular in white gardens too.