Focusing on flowers

Wherever I am I stop to see and smell the flowers. Here are a few blooms I have kept to enjoy later.

Flower stall in Utrecht, Netherlands. 

Wildflowers have been a source of pleasure from childhood when I learned their names from my mother. 

Marsh marigolds are spring wildflowers in Alberta.

Flower gardens have been important to my mother, grandmother and many other family members.

  

Delphiniums and lilacs were in my grandmother's garden.

I have had my own flower gardens in many locations.

My Edmonton container garden.

Fragrant frangipanis grew in my garden in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. 

 Jacaranda.

Since retiring I have been fortunate to spend at least part of each Canadian winter some place warm, where each day I could see and smell flowers outdoors.

Water lilies.

Edmonton's Muttart
Conservatory.

While still living and working full time in Canada, I took many flower photographs in the summer to make a slideshow for my computer during the winter months. Occasionally in winter I would seek a mental health break in a conservatory or a garden centre that stayed open all year.

Rotorua, New Zealand

Elaborate gardens

One of Mum's roses

Spectacular Hydrangeas 

Single blooms

Temperate

Australian bottle brush. 

Tropical






Indoors and outdoors

Underground garden
Arras, France

Planters in Orleans, France. 

Cultivated flowers, native flowers and even flowering weeds.

Brilliant blue morning glories take over abandoned Melbourne house.

I love them all and believe that flowers contribute greatly to our emotional well-being.

Azaleas at Bargany Gardens, Ayrshire, Scotland.