tulips
Tag: flowers
budding camellias
Continuous line drawing
Hippeastrum
My lovely neighbour gives me one of these every December. When checking how to spell ‘amaryllis’ I learned that it’s actually in the genus Hippeastrum. Learn something new every day!
cyclamen
flower finches
From the kitchen window, I can see the huge creeping rosemary bush on the hill above the house. While I sip my morning tea, I watch flocks of finches swoop in to eat the flowers for breakfast.
dahlias
Ink + watercolour + oil pastels
bud vase
Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Marjorie Channon’
Whenever I notice something for the first time, it makes me wonder what other beauty I am obliviously missing.
Grindelia camporum
Time for a new sketchbook. This one has a white canvas cover, which will quickly get grubby, so I decided to paint it. Watercolours definitely run amok on canvas!
Great Valley gumweed is native to California and Baja California, where it can be found in a number of habitats including chaparral and woodlands. The flower heads fill with a sticky white exudate that was reportedly used by the Chumash to treat poison-oak rash, skin diseases and pulmonary troubles.
bouquet of the day
It’s nice to be back home, and gathering flowers from the yard.
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