Basking Bejwelled Beauty
Every year, the Tesselaar family, famous for their tulips, host two flower festivals at their show garden premises in Silvan in the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. They began many years ago with their Tulip Festival in spring, which attracts visitors locally, from interstate and internationally. However, in the last few years, the Tesselaar family have started hosting an autumn festival too, called “Ka-Bloom” which I think has now eclipsed the tulip festival with its amazing plantongs. The Ka-Bloom festival sees the gardens filled with colour from mass plantings of snapdragons, dwarf dahlias, salvias and marigolds.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 21st of November is "one flower in focus", so when the theme was announced, I remembered a photograph I had taken of the French marigolds in bloom in the gardens of the Tesselaar Ka-Bloom festival, in April of this year. It had been a cool and crisp morning, and when the gates first opened and my partner and I went in, there were still some blooms that had dewdrops on them, like this vibrant French marigold, which is bejewelled with them! As the day progressed, it warmed up quickly and soon the pretty dewdrops I captured on this orange bloom were no more. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
Basking Bejwelled Beauty
Every year, the Tesselaar family, famous for their tulips, host two flower festivals at their show garden premises in Silvan in the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. They began many years ago with their Tulip Festival in spring, which attracts visitors locally, from interstate and internationally. However, in the last few years, the Tesselaar family have started hosting an autumn festival too, called “Ka-Bloom” which I think has now eclipsed the tulip festival with its amazing plantongs. The Ka-Bloom festival sees the gardens filled with colour from mass plantings of snapdragons, dwarf dahlias, salvias and marigolds.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 21st of November is "one flower in focus", so when the theme was announced, I remembered a photograph I had taken of the French marigolds in bloom in the gardens of the Tesselaar Ka-Bloom festival, in April of this year. It had been a cool and crisp morning, and when the gates first opened and my partner and I went in, there were still some blooms that had dewdrops on them, like this vibrant French marigold, which is bejewelled with them! As the day progressed, it warmed up quickly and soon the pretty dewdrops I captured on this orange bloom were no more. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.