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For Smile on Saturday's theme: "flower name is first name"

38/100 flowers 2022

Juffertje in't groen.

Thanks to brother Mintaka for the Nigella source.

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Nigella damascena, also known as love-in-a-mist, ragged lady and devil-in-a-bush, took this a few weeks ago, been dithering and fiddling..

Canon EOS 550D EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

ƒ/5.6 250.0 mm 1/2500 ISO 400

Czarnuszka damasceńska / Nigella damascena

Nigella

Nigelle

Meopta Belar 75mm f4.5 enlarger lens.

Press L to go Large.

365:2019 Day 156

Extremely shallow DoF .... and it was windy!!!

Jungfer im Grünen

Sony A7RIII with FE 90mm 2.8 Macro

One of my backyard favorites, flowers that float within a mist of airy foliage.

The genus name Nigella comes from the Latin niger (black), referring to the intense black seeds. One of about 15 species in this genus in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), N. damascena comes from southern European and northern Africa. In its native habitat it grows in fields, along roadsides and in rocky or waste ground.

Jungfer im Grünen

Sony Alpha 1 with FE 90mm F2.8 Macro

Denver Botanic Gardens

Nigelle

Denver Botanic Gardens

Nigella

gracious nigella or 'love in a mist'

One from the archives today :)

I seem to have mixed up some seeds this year, I thought I had a number of Cosmos growing….then this little beauty flowered…..

A pale blue version of Nigella flowers in our garden.

in ice for Smile on Saturday

37/100x: The 2023 Edition

Seen at #230

Thank you!!