Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON
This huge bush of yellow daisies is a great colour spot in the winter garden at Casa Authorblog. When little else flowers as the frost and ice thwart us, these daisies bloom as if their life depends on it.
Now, with only four weeks to go until spring arrives, the daisies have finally started to look a bit the worse for wear. As the newly-pruned rose bushes start to show new, tentative growth, these yellow beauties are in turn starting to show their age.
In a couple of weeks, we'll prune them back, savagely, as we always do. And next autumn they will sprout defiantly, reminding us that they will be back in all their golden glory when the nights get so much shorter and so much colder.
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The nature of your seasons intrigues me, David. These are gorgeous. Just the light to have here in Connecticut on a quiet, rainy Sunday.
ReplyDeleteLovely colors! Can I say the rise and fall of the daisies?
ReplyDeleteSo wonderful how they return and return. So full of life. Oh, 4 weeks till your spring, 4 till our fall.
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My dad used to always bring me flowers when he'd come for a visit in the Winter. He'd usually stop at a store and find an inexpensive, small potted flower that I could put on my kitchen windowsill. He said that it was good for the emotional health to have something alive and blooming to look at in the middle of Winter.
ReplyDeleteSomething about dasies makes me feel like a small child again. Lovely "reality" in that first image.
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Lola xx
Aw, thank you, you have brought back a lovely memory of my NANA with that song..
ReplyDeleteDaisies are such a happy, sunny flower. They always make me smile.
ReplyDeleteYour yellow daisies are still beautiful even in decline.
ReplyDeleteGolden glory indeed - I'm green with envy...
ReplyDeleteWow... I never realized that those lovely yellow things were daisies!
ReplyDeleteI love flowers. Don't you love how they all kind of have little personalities....
ReplyDeleteDavid: The beauty of the Daisy can truly be seen.
ReplyDeleteVery cheery. I have a shrub with little pibnk flowers that gets cut literally to the ground every winter, and grows back each year to well above my head.
ReplyDeleteDaisies always makes me smile. Very cheery. =)
ReplyDeleteAh, we have a Percy Thrower from Australia.lol.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers and a song that was going in my Mum or possibly grandma's day. Will have to find out!
ReplyDeleteActually, its:
ReplyDelete''Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do; I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It wont be a stylish marriage, I cant afford a carriage but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.''
its about a proposal not a dance ..silly...
Absolutly love the last daisy shot. It is screaming to me to et outside and go for a walk already.
ReplyDeleteI love Daisies for their simplicity and classic beauty. Sometimes a little pain (hard pruning) is just what the doctor ordered.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful daisies! I love that warm yellow! What a bright spot they would create anywhere.
ReplyDeleteHappiness abides with daisies I do believe
ReplyDeleteLovely Daisys, yellow is a good color.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to have had a spot of cheery yellow to brighten the garden during the transition from winter to spring.
ReplyDeleteI liked the photos. Personally, I can't wait for some sunshine. It's been way too cold in Auckland this year, and I'm enjoying the hint of spring in the air.
ReplyDeleteDaisies in winter? I'm speechless.
ReplyDeleteThey're beautiful, and strong to keep blooming through the winter.
ReplyDeleteSavagely? Defiantly? I don't believe I've heard such terms used in gardening before. I must be terribly naive! But it certainly sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteInteresting that your daisies bloom through your winter while ours bloom all summer, sometimes into fall. I love their simplicity. When I was little, we would sit and pull their petals off, one at a time...'he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me...' nice memories stirred by this photo.
ReplyDeleteBeautifull flowers you have there, my comment is kind of ockward, it is due to the fact that the post is called Cluster's Last Stand, and I am happening to do a program that clusterizes flowers, in my case I started with the iris kind, but the intersting things of this clusterization is that it is not done normally with regular sets and regular distances like the euclidean one, it is done with fuzzy sets and distances luke minkowsky which is not the one we are used to now. For more details about the flowers I am working with check:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers, my favorite along with roses.
ReplyDeletelike you i'm counting the days to spring. and keeping my beady little eye open for any early sign thereof.... nice spot of yellow there!
ReplyDeleteThese flowers are also found in my country. I've always liked all sorts of daisies. I like gerberas best of all.
ReplyDeletelove the yellow flowers.
ReplyDeleteA yard filled with these would be amazing!
ReplyDeleteLovely, just lovely.
Baisy bushes always give a great splash of colour.
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