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THEME: SEEDS

SUBJECT: EVERLASTING FLOWER (Helichrysum Bracteatum)

Taken at Toronto Gardens

 

Admired for the beauty of its joyful flowers, Helichrysum bracteatum or Xerochrysum bracteatum (everlasting flowers) is a short-lived tender perennial or annual boasting daisy-like flowers, up 1-3 inches across (2-8 cm), adorned with a central yellow disk surrounded by glossy, petal-liked bracts in brilliant shades of yellow, orange, red, pink or white. The petals are lime stiff paper, and they unfold to form concentric rings in bright colors. Blooming from late Spring to the first frost, they rise atop erect stems clad with lance-shaped green leaves.

 

Wonderful in the sunny boarder or in a vase at home, everlasting flowers are terrific in dried flower arrangements as they retain perfectly well their shape and color.

 

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Metro station "Westfriedhof" (cemetery west)

Munich

Watching the sun slowly sink to the horizon, playing hide and seek through the cloud layers. I love this game . and never seem to tire of what the night will bring. Everlasting Love is by Daniel Johnston.

There is always a brighter tomorrow,..... Happy Imagoism Thursday!

© Aurora Santiago

Photographed on a foggy day at Johnston Ridge,

Mount St. Helen's National Volcanic Monument

Taken at "Heritage Museums and Gardens" Sandwich, Massachusetts

A close up of the petals.

They are still flowering and have done so for quite a while.

Immature Everlasting with a long way to go to open.

Lovely Everlasting flower.

Xerochrysum bracteatum, strauflowers

thewholetapa

© 2009 tapa | all rights reserved

In the Wollongong Botanic Garden, New South Wales, Australia

Still flowering. Well worth growing.

voyeurism on a strawflower stalk

 

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

 

Street portrait from Glasgow, Scotland.

 

Colour re-edit of a shot from July 2018. Captured as a demonstration of how to approach a stranger and get permission for a portrait during one of my street photography workshops. Enjoy.

Photography by Matthew & Ariel Irving

Surprisingly still flowering after 2 years. The taller Everlasting plants flower for a long time then die.

Botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat first described the golden everlasting as Xeranthemum bracteatum in1803.

The Latin species name bracteatum refers to the papery bracts.

 

Known more recently as Helichrysum bracteatum before being transferred to the new genus Xerochrysum in 1990.

X. bracteatum was being cultivated in England by 1791.

 

German horticulturist Herren Ebritsch bred and sold cultivars of many colors including bronze, white and purple at his nursery at Arnstadt near Erfurt in Germany.

These cultivars were to spread across Europe in the 1850s and were noted as being in Australian cultivation by the 1860's .

 

H.ROUSSEL PARIS TRYLOR F6.3 100mm lens mounted on macro bellows @ f/6.3.

They last for such a long time and look so good. You are probably bored by now ?

A lovely sunny day . Now I am waiting for it to rain, all we have had is about 7mm in 6 months. Other places have had more.

Lovely yellow daisy grows and flowers in a pot.

Lovely yellow Everlastings

Lovely pink everlasting daisies. Hope to grow more.

Everlasting wallflower, it flowers continuously, endlessly, feels a bit like Covid, just that this wallflower is pretty, covid and it’s effect just isn’t, it’s ugly with devastating consequences.

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Fuente inagotable, cascadas del Huéznar (San Nicolás del Puerto-Sevilla, España)

In Dundee botanic gardens.

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