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Spring Morning at Brookside Gardens

by hankinslawrenceimages | May 4, 2016 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Flowers, Liliaceae Family

In mid-April I spent a few hours one morning photographing at Brookside Gardens – one of my favorite local botanical gardens. Every spring, hundreds of daffodils and tulips bloom at Brookside – and this year was no different. Here are a few of the daffodils and tulips I photographed that morning.

Geranium Tazetta Daffodils

Candy Prince Tulips

Cretaceous Tulips

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my tulip and daffodil photos from a wonderful spring morning.

Marvelous March Morning at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 16, 2016 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Iridaceae Family, Liliaceae Family, Orchidaceae Family, Papaveraceae Family, Wildflowers

Last week I spent a marvelous morning photographing at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, Virginia. I don’t get to Lewis Ginter as often as I’d like to (something about all the traffic on I-95) but when I do – I always have a wonderful time. Spring flowers bloom at least a week earlier in Richmond than they do in DC – so a trip in early March means I get to see and photograph spring flowers a little earlier than I would if I just stayed at home.

Here are a few of my photos from Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens from last week

Cum Laude Daffodils

Bloodroot – sanguinaria canadensis

Purple Crocuses

Dwarf Irises

And in the conservatory I found a wonderful Leopard Prince Phalaeonopsis Orchid to photograph

Leopard Prince Phalaeonopsis Orchid © 2016 Patty Hankins

Now that spring seems to finally be arriving in the DC area – I’ll be out photographing locally more often. And I’ll admit – I’m ready to be out photographing on a more regular basis 🙂

String Lilies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jan 18, 2016 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Flowers

I recently was looking at the files on my computer and realized I had thousands and thousands of unweeded unsorted flower photos on my drive. So I’ve spent some time organizing them by family and flower type – and am now starting to edit. Given how many there are – it’s going to be a long time before I work my way through all of them – to say nothing of what happens when I go out photographing and add more files to the piles . . .

Here’s the first of what will probably be many posts of multiple photos of the same type or similar types of flowers. It seems the best way to get the photos edited and out there.

Today’s photos are of String Lilies. The most common string lilies are Crinum americanun, a plant native to the Southeastern US. It’s one of the wildflowers that can grow in difficult conditions – and is often one of the first wildflowers to return after a fire. They are members of the Amaryllidaceae family. Originally they were classified in the liliaceae family, and I have seen them listed in the Xanthorrhoeaceae family.

These first string lily photos were taken in Florida.

At Fairchild Botanical Garden

At Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

In the Big Cypress Wilderness Preserve

And in the Everglades National Park

I also photographed a type of crinum at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

I’ve also photographed a couple of sets of flowers that were labeled String Lilies – without any specific botanical identification. I can see similarities to the crinium – but they clearly are something different. I’m just not sure what. This is most likely one of the situations where more than one type of flower has the same common name and aren’t botanically the same flower.

At Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina

And finally a few from Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my string lily photos – and if anyone happens to know what types of flowers these last two sets are – I hope you’ll let me know. Thanks 🙂

A Few Spring Daffodils

by hankinslawrenceimages | Sep 2, 2015 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Flowers

OK – so it’s not spring – but I just sorted through some of my daffodil photos from earlier this year and thought I’d share them with you. I don’t know about you – but daffodils make me smile whenever I see them.

Rip Van Winkle Daffodils © 2015 Patty Hankins

Professor Einstein Daffodils

by hankinslawrenceimages | May 1, 2015 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Flowers

Daffodils!!!! Those wonderful cheery flowers that say SPRING IS HERE!!!!! The daffodils finally bloomed in the DC area – looking at my photo archive it looks like the daffodils only bloomed a couple of weeks later than usual – but this year – it seemed like they were blooming months later than usual.

Fortunately I’d seen and photographed some wonderful Professor Einstein daffodils at a local botanical garden in February so I did get to see some earlier this year. Professor Einstein daffodils grow to about 18″ tall. They have large reddish-orange cups and white petals.

Professor Einstein Daffodils © 2015 Patty Hankins

Professor Einstein Daffodils © 2015 Patty HankinsProfessor Einstein Daffodils © 2015 Patty Hankins

I really like the Professor Einstein daffodils – wonder if I can find some for my garden. I’ve got a little more for some daffodils out front …

Garlic Chives & Star of Persia – two alliums

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 8, 2014 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Flowers

I realized that I’ve photographed two members of the allium genus that really show off the characteristics of these members of the Amaryllis family. Commonly know as the onion genus, alliums include garlic, onions, chives, scallions and leeks – which all play a key role in flavoring cooking.

Alliums are perennials growing from bulbs – they tend to have one leafless stalk with a single flower forming an umbel (umbrella shape) at the top. Most alliums are native to the Northern Hemisphere.

The two alliums I’ve photographed are Garlic Chives (allium tuberosum) and Stars of Persia (allium christophii).

Garlic Chives (allium tuberosum) probably originated in China. It has since spread across Europe and parts of the United States where in some places it is considered invasive.

Stars of Persia (alllium christophii) is also native to Southeast Asia. It is known for its globes of showy pink/purple flowers on the umbel.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my photos of these wonderful alliums. Do you have a favorite allium growing in your garden?

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