Daily garden Photo: Scabious

The scabious has started to flower in our orchard:

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Wild scabious flower - edited version

There is a cluster of these that have just come into flower over the past few days. I was lucky to be able to photograph these as my wife was out with the mower yesterday and I just managed to stop her before they all got mowed down. I find these are a really attractive flower and they are now making the transition from a wild flower to a garden plant – you can now buy them at garden centres.

As the plant is tall and thin, the flower bobs around in the slightest breeze – to hold it in place I used my new home-made plant clamp (I cannot afford a manufactured one) – this cost less than £5 and is made from a ‘car-boot’ cheap tripod, a ‘flexi-curve’ and a couple of clamps. It seems to work quite well – you can see it in action below:

plant clamp– you can also see how close the mowing got yesterday! The original version of the photo is below:

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Wild scabious - original version

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Author: Paul L. G. Morris

I am a freelance photographer whose distinguishing feature is that I am prepared to photograph the unusual and the overlooked. Having had many years of experience pursuing the creative art of photography, coupled with more recent experience as a portrait photographer and garden photographer, I now work professionally through my business: PM Studios Ltd.