mexican fleabane

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Oddly, the Royal Horticultural Society includes 'Australian fleabane' as another common name for the Erigeron karvinskianus, which is most commonly known as 'Mexican fleabane', despite the plant being considered a weed species in Australia, according to Wikipedia.

In this instance, in the London garden of one of my pet-sitting clients, it was not considered a weed, but a welcome and cultivated part of the garden.

I like that it appears to bear both white and pink flowers on the same plant (please let me know if I'm wrong!)

endres cranesbill

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forever in our hearts at christmas

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red roses and reindeer

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It's that time again.

As has become something of a custom, life is "all change" again this December (well, at least on the work front).

Despite that, I'm aiming to share new images from my season's grievings series every couple of days between now and Christmas and make them public approximately two days later.

I hope you enjoy!

I photographed this grave in Abney Park Cemetery in February 2012. The inscription is hard to read through the plant life, but it could be for Thelma Marie Lucas. Alas, I haven't been able to find anything to confirm that or to inform me more about the interred.

I hope that those who love you miss you this much and more after you're gone.

(Though, without the requirement of it being so physically visible. I personally don't want to be buried, so there would be nowhere specific like this for those who love and miss me to show it in the same way.)

china rose (pink)

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china rose (white)

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A very belated Happy New Year to you, my dear patrons.

I'm sorry (once again) for the radio silence.

The end of 2024 was voraciously consumed with move-related activity and kittehs, leaving me no time to assemble my usual end-of-year wrap-up blog.

I still intend to write and share one, but I have many photos to edit to bring it together, and January has somehow already disappeared into the rearview. How is that possible?

I hope 2025 will be a better one for me. And for you, if 2024 was hard.

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The state of the world worries me deeply. In case you haven't heard, the Doomsday Clock ticked one second closer to midnight with the swearing-in of Drumpf as the 47th US President, the ongoing wars around this globe we call Earth, and the continued inaction of many world leaders in tackling climate change.

I'll be honest: it's hard to have hope some days.

But I do have hope. And plans. And I continue to see the beauty in the world and the people in my life despite everything.

I hope you do, too.

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I would tell you all about the plans and inspiration whirling around my head. But I feel like, every time I mention my creative plans, I must push them aside while I fight another personal metaphorical fire.

So, instead, I will simply promise to share as much as I can when I can and hope you'll stay with me.

In the meantime, hopefully, these photographs of China roses I found in the front garden of a home in Grove Park last June will remind you of the beauty in the world.

When it all feels overwhelming, stop, take a deep breath and smell the roses.

sweet pea

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A Lathyrus odoratus plant in one of my client's gardens.

to a beloved | qui riposa

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dog rose

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I captured this rosa canina, commonly known as dog rose, and bearing the fruit, rose hip (though not fruiting when I photographed it) on my walk past Grove Park Nature Reserve to Hither Green Cemetery earlier in the month.

There are various theories for the origins of the plant's name. As you might imagine, my favoured one (though likely not scientifically proven) is that the plant can cure the bite of a mad or rabid dog.

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As with many flowers and plants, it's the county flower in one country (Hampshire, England) and an invasive weed in others (NZ and Australia).

But it is pretty.

haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost

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purity and innocence

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let me hold your heart like a flower

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camellia japonica

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blossoms against bricks

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death in technicolour

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A couple of flowering Camellia japonica trees brighten up the churchyard of St Peter's Church in Delamere.

Life and death side by side.

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prunus cerasifera

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Some Prunus cerasifera flowers I captured last Saturday during a solo photo walk in Hitchin.

Spring is coming.

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owt wet

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cafe inside

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off-duty umbrellas

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