Sunday Selections # 401

Welcome back to Sunday Selections.

Begun way back in the mist of time by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock and now continued by me, with a drastic relaxation of rules.

Originally meant for showcasing old photos lost on your files, never seeing the light of day, the meme has morphed into photos of your choice, new or old, good or not-so-good, anything you please, but nothing rude please.

If you are participating, please leave me a comment so I can buzz along and have a look.
Elephant's Child always participates, although she may be away for a few weeks, and her pictures are always worth seeing.



We are back in the Botanic Gardens this week, looking at wisteria:

this is just a small section of the wisteria arbor which is quite long. Beyond it, across a lawn is another, newer arbor with much younger wisteria vines

the white wisteria which was buzzing with hundreds of bees, although I couldn't catch any on camera

black branches, white blooms and bright blue sky

I like the black and creamy white contrast

white at the top of the photo, purple from middle to bottom. This is looking towards the far end of the arbor where the purple wisteria is still quite dense

the blossoms appear to be purple and white rather than just purple

so pretty :)

here you can see the "white" section is actually very pale purple

another lovely shot. This is quite different from the wisteria on a front porch where I lived for a while, those blooms were a deeper purple.

last wisteria photo

a lovely large stand of Echiums, there are a few varieties, I believe these are "Pride of Madeira" the same as the ones in the front garden near my home.

moving away from the "purple" garden, walking towards the gift shop where plants, seeds and bulbs can be purchased, I saw this fiery stem of 'something'

We'll look closer next week.