Garden Sights From Maureen

Beauty seen by a talented photographer

Maureen Budney , in North Reading , Massachusetts , is a gifted amateur lensman and often shares the sights she captures with us .

I love how this photograph of a fearless hibiscus ( Hibiscushybrid , Zones 5–10 ) makes you stop and take in all the detail of this beautiful bloom . sturdy perennial hibiscus are hybrids of species aboriginal to easterly North America and make impose plant with their hugesummer blooms .

Thisclematis(Clematis , large - blossom hybrid , Zones 5–9 ) blossom has cryptical velvetypurplepetals , and its fundamental mass of anther is just beginning to unfold forpollination .

go to fall , the leaves of a cutleafJapanese maple(Acerpalmatum , Zones 5–9 ) are moneyed with bolshy .

These Japanese maple leaves in decline are more gold with just a tinge of red on them . Color depends on the specific cultivar of Nipponese maple , and there will be more blood-red in leaves exposed to direct sunshine , less on leaves in a more shaded location .

This garden light probably create great views all class , but its miniature of thesefall leavesmake the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree look like it is on fervency .

As they first come forth , the leave of lilies ( here , aLiliumhybrid ) can be almost as beautiful as the flowers if you take the fourth dimension to look at them closely .

Cherry blossoms ( Prunussp . , Zones 5–8 ) are the paradigm of bound . The fugitive nature of their display only makes them all the more beautiful and precious .

A beautiful wasp feedingmilkweed(Asclepiasincarnata , Zones 3–6 ) . I believe this is a great contraband excavator white Anglo-Saxon Protestant or a drear - wing wasp . In either grammatical case , like mostwasps , it does n’t bite humans but does feed on garden pests like hopper orJapanese beetlelarva .

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