Well, whoops! I accidentally posted this one before adding any words to explain why I was sharing these flowers, which in retrospect are on the hot side of the concise title I’d drafted: Warm. My blushes, which fortunately you can’t see, are adding to the warmth generated by these sunny pictures.
As yesterday was snowy (not the picturesque kind), I’ve enjoyed searching out a collection of blooms that fall along the yellow-orange-red spectrum that we associate with heat to meet Egidio’s challenge.
My final, truly warm border was St Peter’s C of E School’s gold medal-winning garden at the Southport Flower Show. Its young designer, Rosie Buckley, must have been very proud when her garden was chosen out of the many ideas submitted. I can’t imagine how excited I’d have been if we’d have had chance to be involved in a project like this when I was a schoolgirl.
Shared for the Lens-Artists Challenge: Warm Colours
And the moral of the story? Never make any attempt to post while listening to a podcast!
Susan Rushton 
These are so many varieties of flowers in your garden. Anita
Sadly not mine. It would brighten up the street if they were! They are flowers I’ve admired in gardens and at flower shows.
Lovely photos and gorgeous colours, just right for brightening up what has been a very dull day. The alstroemeria and echinacea are some of my favourite flowers and I like the award winning garden :)
Thanks, Eunice. Alstromerias are great for brightening a room too – they last for ages in a vase. Mum loves them.
Susan, first of all, thank you for joining the challenge. Your post and photos are stunning! These are great macros. I began scrolling slowly and thinking I liked the first. We have those sunflowers in Texas. Then, I saw the second flower. Its name — Gloriosa Lily — is truly appropriate for such a glorious flower. I liked all of the photos. They are warm and beautiful. Thanks, again. I hope to see more of your work.
The yellow sunflowers were in a native plant section outside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (the Pollinator Pathway. I smiled at an information sign that read ‘Did they really make it look like this on purpose? Yes.’ They obviously thought it needed some interpretation!
LOL, morale noted!!Beautiful flowers to brighten up an otherwise dingy day Susan, much appreciated
Thanks, Tina. I’m a late adopter of podcasts, but now I’ve found a few I like, I’ll often listen while working on images. It’s a good job I don’t try to navigate the streets while I’m in podcast land!
So much joy in these colours! I hope it was a good podcast.
It was Dan Carlin talking to Rick Rubin about creativity – two broad shoulders there to accept the blame!
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A wonderful selection, Susan. And don’t beat yourself with that wet noodle too long – we have all done silly things like that. If I don’t edit a post at least once after it has been posted, I fear that I’m loosing it.
Thanks for the reassurance, Pat. Any of my poor e-mail subscribers who saw flowers titled ‘Warm’ with only the word ‘text’ will have realised what had happened. Luckily someone liked it, prompting my brief panic. My tea was nearly ready too, so I almost burnt my pie fixing it.
Funny. The hoops we jump through for a post we are willing to put our name one.
A cheerful post, Susan. Thanks for brightening up my day!
My pleasure, Eliza. You have brightened up many of mine.
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The award-winning garden by Rosie Buckley would make an excellent addition to a preschool, with perhaps a different planting scheme.
The painted wooden retaining walls would be colourful at any time of year. The flowers catch your eye first, but there were lots of features: an insect hotel, a pebble feature with water bubbling out of a trumpet – I hope it was a broken one!
What a wonderful series of ‘warm’ flowers.
They were especially interesting for me as I have images of those flowers, but nothing like the rich colours. I’ve never seen a Galliarda with those interesting petal shapes and I’ve only ever seen Echinacea with pink petals.
So all in all, a very rewarding ‘walk’ by your flower images.
These were some unusual varieties that caught my eye at flower shows. There must be a series of Galliarda with spoon-shaped petals. I’ve seen a more yellow one too. Each year there are several novelties that pop up all over, as if the grower had a surplus and handed a few out as the stand-builders arrived. That would be a great PR tactic!
WOW. Beautiful selections! Well done.
Thanks, John.
Ever so wonderful Susan. I shall never tire of your flower photos 🥰
Thanks, Brian. That’s a very sweet thing to say.
I’m feeling a warm glow already, looking at these photos on a misty morning.
Thanks, Margaret. I’m not feeling a warm glow having noticed what ‘improvement’ WordPress has made to my comments section. It’s going to frighten the living daylights out of anyone who doesn’t blog (and a few of those who do!) How long has it been like this, I wonder? I haven’t been around for a bit.
Honestly, I give up. I’ve just begun to accept that WP is here to make humble bloggers feel out of their depth.
It seems designed to allow people to make their comments ‘all fancy’, but I’m not wildly keen on people doing that. Sigh. There might be a way of switching it off. Some people’s blogs are asking you to subscribe before you get a chance to post a comment – when you have already subscribed! I just wish they’d ask if that was an option you wanted to enable rather than randomly switch it on.
Indeed. That is a not at all welcome new ‘thing’. Another one …