Dark blue sloes on a blackthorn tree. Lots of lichen on the branches.

#BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #photography #ecotherapy

Another photo from walk in the Peak District last weekend. Sloes.

Residence Palace Würzburg
#scape and later entry for #PalacesAndGardens #Botanicalwonders #Baroque

For this week’s #PalacesAndGardens theme of #BotanicalWonders, here’s a Himalayan Blue Poppy in the botanical gardens in Akureyri, Iceland. #EastCoastKin #Photography #bluepoppy #BloomScrolling #iceland #Flowers #travelphotography

This close-up vertical photograph captures a dense, architectural mass of Mediterranean spurge (Euphorbia characias), likely the subspecies wulfenii, filling the entire frame with a captivating display of texture and form. The image is dominated by numerous, robust, and upright stems, each meticulously clothed in a spiraling arrangement of narrow, oblong, blue-green/grey-green leaves. The foliage creates a highly textural, almost sculptural, effect, with each plant forming a distinct, rounded, and brush-like head. The leaves are tightly clustered, lending a feeling of density and abundance. The overall colour palette is a rich, cool spectrum of green, ranging from deep, shadowy forest greens in the lower and background areas to vibrant, almost chartreuse, lime greens on the newer growth and developing inflorescences at the tips of the stems. Lighting in the photograph is soft and diffused, highlighting the intricate details of the leaves and the overlapping structure of the plants without harsh shadows. This even illumination emphasises the matt, slightly waxy texture of the evergreen leaves. The depth of field is shallow, allowing the central cluster of plants to remain in sharp focus while the surrounding plants gently blur into the background, creating a lush, immersive visual experience. The dense planting offers an impenetrable look, showcasing the plant's architectural quality prized in garden design. The scene is natural yet orderly due to the repetitive, starburst-like pattern of the foliage whorls. This plant is known for its ability to thrive in dry, sunny conditions and produces a milky, irritant sap when broken, a characteristic of the wider Euphorbia genus. The image is a study in natural geometry and shades of green.

'Verdant Volume'

A Euphorbia Characias from our Autumn '25 visit to Jervaulx Abbey for
#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders

Hope my #Bluesky friends are having an ace week!

Sparty🙏🏼

#EastCoastKin #Photography
#PhotographersofBluesky #Art
#ColorADay #YellowThu #Travel #Art #PhotographersofBluesky

Close-up of a vibrant yellow hibiscus flower with five petals, a pinkish-red centre, and delicate yellow and pink stamens. The background is filled with green leaves, softly blurred to highlight the flower.

Some Like It Hot

Hibiscus in The Hot House - RHS Wisley Gardens

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision

#ColorADay #YellowThu
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

Red and purple tulips in a bed surrounding a grassy area, walk ways filled with people, flowering trees and statues with one of the Louvre wings in the background.

April in Paris. An area of the Jardin des Tuileries which was built outside the Tuileries Palace (now gone), now edging the buildings of the Louvre, which was originally a palace. Swarmed with people on a warm spring day!
#PalacesandGardens #BotanicalWonders
#HumansOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

A detail from a green needle tree that seems to be winding itself up.

Winding needles

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #photography #plantphotography #naturephotography #Normandie #France

This staghorn sumac, a small tree, has burning orange foliage against a beautiful blue sky

I could tell you this magnificently autumnal staghorn sumac was in the historic gardens at some stately pile out in the country, but it was actually in the carpark at Aldi 🌱😀

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #PlantSky

A color photo of a beautiful Japanese Garden in WA State. This Botanical Garden is a favorite of locals & tourists for it's well-maintained grounds and varieties of nature. The image captures plants, flowers, a duck in a pond & Japanese Statuary. Vox enjoys visiting this garden but is not posting a photo of her in it. The photographers are known & the image is credited to both in the text of the post.

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders
This is a Japanese Garden in Washington State #PNW; a favorite place during spring & summer - for it's beauty, to relax, picnics, shade, birds, flowers & nicely maintained grounds
#Photography
📷 Terry Donnelly & Mary Liz Austin

A wide view of the formal gardens at Château de Chenonceau, showing intricate geometric patterns of neatly trimmed hedges, flower beds, and topiary. Pathways divide the designs into ornate sections filled with bright spring colors. A raised terrace runs through the middle of the scene, and beyond the gardens a small village and rows of trees fade into a hazy sky.

Digging deep in the archives and found a film scan from 2001 of the gardens at Château de Chenonceau, if my memory is correct.

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #35mm #film #france #garden #formalgarden #photography #landscapephotography

A coral and soft yellow water lily blossom at the Denver Botanical Gardens. Ants are inside the blossom.

At this point, water lilies are just a fading memory of this summer's #BotanicalWonders.

#PalacesandGardens #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷

A selection of strawflowers with the focus on one with white outer petals and an orange central disc

Strawflowers, xerochrysum bracteatum, native of Australia, often grown as an annual outdoors in the UK but this was part of a substantial bush growing in an experimental hot and dry biome at @rbgkew.bsky.social last year 🌱

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #PlantSky

#PalacesAndGardens

in the footsteps of Princess Daisy,
the Castle in Pszczyna

May 2023
#biking #Silesia #Poland #scape #LandscapePhotography #gardens #BotanicalWonders

Creamy pale orchids with deep purple centers Cheekwood Botanical Gardens

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin

New York Botanical Garden
Beautiful urban space

#greenspace #photography
#UrbanGaze #NewYork #roses #NewYorkBotanicalGarden #Garden
#PalacesAndGardens #EastCoastKin #BotanicalWonders #openair

Roses in bloom: Two rose-colored roses with almost white interior petals in the foreground, behind them yellow roses and in the background a tall green Hornbeam hedge forms the boundary of the rose garden.

VIENNESE IMPRESSIONS
Roses in May
Rose Garden at Schönbrunn Park
My Motto Today:
"Grey November Pictures? No Way!"
#EastCoastKin #Photography #Roses
#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders
#BloomScrolling #ColorADay #YellowThu

Photograph of an empty, circular, multi-level water fountain with a cherub on top, in the orangery of Lyme Park, Cheshire. The floor is a beautiful historic tiles and the back wall whitewashed, with an array of plants growing. If it was mine, I'd have spent hours in a comfy chair in there reading!

Hosepipe Ban
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #BotanicalWonders

#EastCoastKin #photography #fountain #cherub #orangery #LymePark #Cheshire #plants
(iPhone camera)

A colourful garden in front of Heaton Hall at Heaton Park. Manicured lawns surrounded by thousands of begonias in a rainbow of colours from red, orange, yellow, white and pink. A ornate stonework sundial stands amongst the flowers. Tall trees surround the garden which has z low wall all around

#PalacesAndGardens
#BotanicalWonders
The beautiful garden in front of Heaton Hall in August

A vibrant autumn scene at RHS Wisley featuring a striking tree with bright orange and red foliage beside a calm pond. Surrounding trees display a mix of green, yellow, and golden hues under a clear blue sky, creating a colourful, tranquil garden landscape.

Gardener’s World
Autumn garden at RHS Wisley

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision
#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

A huge Sequoia tree ringed by a small fence stands near the entrance to an impressive mansion at Wakehurst in Sussex. The gardens are owned by the National Trust but run by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

I couldn’t let this week’s
#PalacesAndGardens theme of #BotanicalWonders
go by without visiting Wakehurst botanic garden in Sussex. The main wonder is the Millennium Seed Bank collection of over 2.4 billion seeds from around the world. However, this Sequoia is more photogenic.
#EastCoastKin

A massive rounded hedge with a passageway cut into it. The tower of a palace peeks over the top. There are much smaller hedges, flowers, and trees in the foreground. The sky is blue with no clouds.

Hedge fun

Mateus Palace in Portugal

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography

A close-up shot of a small, round Oroya borchersii cactus with dense golden spines, photographed at 4000 meters in the high Andes of Peru

Sometimes you need a gentle, thorny guard to keep the world's harshness out, like this beautiful spiky friend 🏔️🇵🇪

#LlamaLens #PalacesandGardens #BotanicalWonders #Photography #EastCoastKin

Blue ridge daylilies farm.
#palacesandgardens #coloraday #yellowthu #botanicalwonders #bloomscrolling #daylilies #gardens #blueridgedayliliesfarm
#eastcoastkin

The beautiful Japanese Botanical Gardens, in the fall, display wonderful color. Portland, Oregon.

#PalacesandGardens
#BotanicalWonders

@lorettarobinson.bsky.social

A grass path runs through the picture with beds of edibles and flowers on either side. In the middle distance the head gardeners cottage is set into one of the walls with a large glass house beside it. Beyond the wall tall trees line the horizon beneath a blue sky with white clouds. The garden consists of two sections divided by a spine wall – the pleasure garden and the kitchen garden, which supplies fruit and vegetables to the catering facilities at the site. This was once one of the most innovative gardens in Scotland –pushing horticultural boundaries in the past included the cultivation of peaches, nectarines and apricots gifted to Sir John Kennedy as early as 1730. The onion ‘Ailsa Craig’ was bred by a gardener working at Culzean in the 1870s.

One for this week's #PalacesAndGardens, the theme is #BotanicalWonders

The Walled Garden, Culzean Castle, #Ayrshire, #Scotland. May 2025.

One of the biggest in Scotland covering an area of 3 hectares (7.5 acres)

More in Alt Text

#Gardens #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin

A beautiful walk up to a castle surrounded by perfectly manicured hedges and gardens.

#PalacesAndGardens
#BotanicalWonders

@dorotapawlak.bsky.social

A close-up, upward-looking view of a spherical purple allium flower against a vivid blue sky. The image focuses on the flower’s globe-shaped head, made up of many tiny star-like florets and unopened buds that radiate from the centre on thin stems. The tall, pale stalk rises from the bottom of the frame, with the bright sky creating a clean, striking backdrop.

For Sabine’s
#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders An Allium flower from the gardens of Downhill House. #photography #EastCoastKin

An overview of the Japanese Garden in the Huntington Library Botanical Garden in San Marino/Pasadena, California. In the foreground is a concrete pagoda surrounded by bushes and flowers. There are green lawns, weeping willow trees and manicured trees/bushes into shapes. Further in the background is a pond and arched wooden bridge. People are walking through the garden, and the sky is blue.

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders

I have always loved the Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library botanical garden in San Marino, California

#EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #HuntingtonLibraryGarden #JapaneseGarden

Plants without colour taken at Dublin's National Botanic Garden.

Naturally Desaturated Plants!

I was struck by how pale these are.

📸 Sony α6700 / Sigma 18-50mm ƒ/2.8 DC DN | Contemporary
© 2024 Robert James Kaes

#ArtYear #BotanicalWonders #EastCoastKin #Ireland #NationalBotanicGardens #PalacesAndGardens #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #SonyPhotography

This bed of tulips has various shades of cream, orange and red. The petals have slightly fringed edges. The stems seem to be too weak to hold up the flower as many of them are leaning over sideways.

Tulips at Keukenhof Gardens, Netherlands, for today's #PalacesAndGardens
#BotanicalWonders #Photography #EastCoastKin