As I was scrolling down in my photo gallery, I noticed that I have photographed so many Purple flowers! They are collections from my walks and frequent garden visits. I realized how many different purple hues we have with different types of flowers. They are all simply gorgeous and bring a calming effect to the senses.
Pretty little purple florets
Purple Splash
A beautiful cosmos of Purple Pansies
Drowsy Purple dreams
Purple and white are great groundcovers
Wild purple Campanula beauties
Purple summer feels…
Purple rain , maybe?
Purple Aster crown entourage
Purple Geranium against old roses
My lovable Purple Lavenders are non-stop bloomers.
Something Purple Crocus to announce the arrival of Spring!
Purple Hibiscus
Lovely Purple Pansies
My purple Oxalis Triangularis
Ultra Violet Bloomers
Spandau Violets
Purple Koleidoscope
Etchinos Ritro wonder ball
Hope you enjoy it!
Tell me, do you like purple flowers? which one is your favorite?
One more day and it’s weekend, wishing everyone a great time, until then . Tschüss!
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need..” {Marcus Tullius Cicero}
Goodbye Spring and Hello Summer!
My old little town here in Ingolstadt in southern Bavaria has a beautiful bed of mixed summer perennials or wild blooms spread all over the town. Germany is indeed a beautiful country but these little country details made me feel at home even more. I lived 5 minutes away from a lush walking forest and 10 minutes from Klenzepark. I think it’s such a new experience for me to see great nature instead of a bunch of cars parked outside or pile of garbage. Also cycling everyday made me appreciate my neighborhood and notice this details about flowering plants.Here, parks and gathering areas are normally decorated with real plants, not plastic.Aside from the fact that most Germans love gardening and plants, they are also crazy about buying cut flowers and bouquets! Everyday, most shops have fresh cut flowers and they are on a decent price. I am totally impressed that here, the outdoor landscape changes in every season and that they are taken cared of by the city gardeners. There are even wild spaces that is full of bright flowers that really looks amazing. I was even thinking how do they plant different varieties that the outcome is raw, and authentically beautiful.
For almost three years of living here, I’ve got already the trend when it comes to plants and flowers for every season. Summer perennials, or blooms are a reminder of the bright golden days ahead full of warm sunshine and colors. Flowers like Poppy, cornflowers, pansies,peonies, roses, zinias, and petunias etc. are blooming like crazy. They are so lovely to look at. I’ve always wanted to stop and gaze upon them. At home I know that summer is at my doorstep when my lavenders are in full swing. The proud stems full of blue violet flowers gives a fresher, brighter look in our place, its an enigma.
The many secrets of Lavender. The wondrous scent it gives away and why its pest tolerant, frigid to the winter temps and drought tolerant.
I was too busy for the past days that I haven’t had the chance to write about my own garden update and my first ever raised-garden ( or Hochbeet). I was even more thankful that my little “Roses corner“in our garden are now in full bloom to think that Spring is not even officially over! If you live in Germany, I think you know that Germans start to raid the shops for gardening stuff even before Spring arrives. Every balcony, patio, garden and every tiny window is transformed into a botanical garden. Germans love gardening, plants and yes–flowers! This is one of the reason why I am into plant propagation and planting my own herbs, flowering plants and cultivating my indoor pot garden. Through time, I have learned which plants to cultivate, which plant survives the frost and cold winter days and so on.When it comes to flowering plants, my crew is limited because most of them doesn’t survive the cold and I don’t have enough space to place them. I was thrilled this year that my Chrysanthemum survived winter last year and now continuously growing.
The summer has arrived!
Are you also excited for Summer as I do?
I am thrilled when I looked up the weather forecast for the coming days and saw that warm days are coming, finaaaallly! The other day, I even went to work without a jacket! To tell you frankly, Summer has a brand new meaning for me here. Finally people sit outside and tan under the sun and having a drink for hours! Aside from so many constructions going on in the streets, people are cycling like crazy! What I mean is that here in South Germany, Beer culture is a real thing and is part of our daily grind, so sitting in Beer gardens is just as important as going to work. I am Asian and the hot weather was also so real , it’s a daily struggle to battle with humidity. I knew how it is to live in a “hot”city like Kuwait where temperatures reaches up to 48 degrees and the so called “spring and winter days flies so fast” and we don’t have summer blooms to admire, only palm trees! But here in Germany, summer signals for something else. Summer here for me means vacation, shorts, grilling and BBQ, sandals, garden, my plants are alive and blooming flowers!
So let me share with you my private gallery of my favorite summer fragile beauties.One of my pastime is to photograph nature, just like going to my favorite nearby lake. I’ve always said that you can never go wrong with nature. It’s one of my favorite subject. Last week during my free day, we went out to our local park and I’ve took some photos from Labyrinth garden and the Rose garden. I was just in awe of the simple beauties of the colorful blooms that looks so eager to welcome the warm sunny days . I called them fragile beauties because their beauty can be so dainty and fleeting like wonderful Tulips, too much heat and they also wither, and to think that summer days seems to be so short, they go so fast.
These bright violets flowers for the weary heart but do you know how the mystery behind the Cornflower?I cannot simply stop staring at them. It might look violet or dark blue under the sun.
This is the perks of having a ritual visit in the play parks with lush gardens– an amazing view of orange beauties!
A mix of wild summer flowers.
Watching how nature works is the simplest form of beauty.
I call them yellow paper roses, so big, fluffy and so exquisite.
I love how nature goes on its natural course, giving us the pleasure through its way.
A wonderful thing will unfold.
Peonies and more Peonies!
This one is a total eye-catcher with its fluffy petals and sunshine yellow pistils.The wall of Roses A walk to remember in the rose garden where history is written in the walls and the crawling roses are the storytellers.
Too shy to unfold it’s total beauty
Oh Hello Sunshine!
Greetings from the Rose Garden
They are warm reminder that good things comes to those who wait.
What about you, what do you love about summer personally? What is your favorite summer perennials?
If you are looking for ideas on how to spend your time nature tripping and wondering about the fragile summer flower beauties in Germany, these posts below might interests you. If you have time to kill then go check them out. This is going to be exciting because I’ll be posting and writing more for the upcoming “Landesgartenshau 2020 ” will will be held here in Ingolstadt and it’s all about plants, landscape, flowers, music, arts and everything exciting and last but not the least, I want to share with you 10 cool reasons why people over here go crazy about the Audi Sommerkonzert !
