Skip to content

Susan Rushton

Celebrating gardens, photography and a creative life

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Extras
    • Photo Gallery
    • Browse
    • Privacy and Cookies
    • Copyright

Tag: Purple flowers

Posted on August 26, 2023

Flower of the Day: Lavender Matsumoto Asters

Lavender Matsumoto Asters

Matsumoto asters are popular with florists, being larger and showier than your average aster. This posy was part of an arrangement in the floristry section of this year’s Southport Flower Show. More from there to come. Continue reading “Flower of the Day: Lavender Matsumoto Asters”

Posted on May 9, 2021

Life In Colour: Purple Anxiety

Dark purple auricula with white centre

HeyJude may not have been expecting to raise a debate about colour naming and perception when she announced purple as the colour of the month. Continue reading “Life In Colour: Purple Anxiety”

Posted on November 6, 2020

Gallery of Purple and Violet Flowers

Purple phlox, blue bottles and hollyhocks
Phlox

Continue reading “Gallery of Purple and Violet Flowers”

Posted on April 29, 2020April 30, 2020

Wordless Wednesday: Aubrieta

Purple aubretia tumbling over a stone wall

 

Follow Susan Rushton on WordPress.com

Thanks for stopping by

  • 917,359 hits

Search this blog

Click on tags to explore

  • American gardens
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Birds
  • Blogging Challenges
  • Colourful
  • Cottage garden plants
  • Darwen
  • English gardens
  • English Roses
  • Floral
  • Flower of the Day
  • Flowers
  • Flower shows
  • Garden art
  • Garden design
  • Gardens
  • Hellebores
  • iPhoneography
  • Lancashire
  • Leaves
  • Macro
  • Mississippi
  • Nature
  • Plants
  • Popular
  • Quirky
  • RHS
  • Rosa
  • Rose
  • Roses
  • Sculpture
  • Stone
  • Street art
  • Trees
  • Wildflowers
  • Winter
  • Yard art

Recommended posts

Picture of traditional house and overstuffed courtyard garden
Cothay Manor's Courtyard Garden
Picture of rosette shaped English Rose
Festival of Roses at RHS Rosemoor

Search posts by category

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

The small print

Privacy and cookies
Copyright information

Perennial Favourites

  • Great Companion Plants For a Cottage Garden: Geraniums
  • Flower Show Trends: White and Chalky Pastel Palette
  • English Rose Gallery: Rosa ‘Darcey Bussell’
  • Chihuly’s Creative Combinations of Glass Art with Flowers
Follow Susan Rushton on WordPress.com

Search this site

Privacy and cookies

© 2014-24 | Susan Rushton | All rights reserved

  • Link to my Instagram account
  • Link to my Pinterest account
  • Link to my Twitter account
  • Link to my Flickr account
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Susan Rushton
    • Join 3,407 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Susan Rushton
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...