EDIT [March 21/2023]:
Thank you for contributing beautiful flowers to this thread. Another year has passed and, just as we do at home, here at Connect we prepare the Garden for the new season. The new garden can be found in … A World Of Flowers - The Local Guides Garden 2023
Let’s wait to take a new walk together to discover the world through her flowers.
This garden is therefore closed.
Thank you all
Ermes
Spring has just arrived and in the Northern Hemisphere, flowers are blooming everywhere, are the words with which Local Guides Garden - Year 4 - Describe your World [through the flowers] began.
The thread was getting very long, so it was time to start a new one.
This year I want to start a few days earlier. It may be due to climate change, but flowering always begins earlier, and spring is already knocking on the door.
Five
The number five seems to be the recurring motif this year for Local Guides. Fifth year of Connect, fifth year as a Local Guide for many of us, and also fifth edition of our garden. A year that I hope will be fantastic. For four editions we have filled the garden with flowers, we have shared our world, the place we live in, through our flowers. We have posted a lot of flowers, more than 5000 pages. We’ve practically covered the planet. This is why this year I wanted to call the Local Guides garden “The Garden of the World”
The variety of flowers we have in the world is incredible, but it is equally interesting to discover how flowers and plants, despite their roots, move and spread across the planet.
Sharing our flowers allows others to know more of the area of the world we live in, and allows us to learn more about the rest of the planet. To do this, however, it is necessary that, when we share our photos, we give some more information.
- Tell us what your photo shows us and why you want to share it. What is important that we know? Learning from each other is something we do very well here in Connect.
- Tell us where and when you took it. Share the location in Google Maps and, if the photo has been uploaded to Maps, share the place where it was uploaded.
- Let us know what (camera, phone) you took your picture with, and if you used any special techniques.
And after so many words, let’s now let the images speak for themselves.
SPRING
I wanted to start my series this year with spring, the season when nature awakens in temperate areas, and the world waits, filled with color.
All the flowers in this image were photographed on May 15, 2021 in the natural Botanical Garden at the Isle of the Dead. For the photos I used my SONY DSC-HX400V.
Within the five circles you can see five different orchids that grow wild in the area.
The main image shows a beautiful Dorset Perennial (Thalictrum Nimbus White).
I visited the place for the first time in the middle of winter, only to return in May to see the flowering of wild orchids. If you want to know more about it you can read: Images of Climate Change and Biodiversity at the Botanical Garden.
SUMMER
Summer is coming, and the delicate colors become intense and vivid, the contrast between light and shadow becomes greater.
Inside the circles starting from the top left you can see photos of:
- Thistle. The photo was taken in the Alps, at 1400 meters of altitude, in August 2019
- Wild Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum). In the image you can admire the classic circles that form when the microscopic flowers begin to fall. The photo was in the Veneto plain, in July 2021
- Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). The photo was taken in the Alps, at 1100 meters above sea level, in June 2021.
- Hottentot-fig (Carpobrotus edulis). The photo was taken in Sintra (Portugal), near the coast, in August 2006
- Sunflowers. The photo was taken near Treviso (Italy), in July 2018
Various photos taken in different places, but with one thing in common: Summer
For the photos I used my SONY DSC-HX400V and my mobile phone, a Pixel 3XL
My Story: Flowers in the Alps
We can tell the seasons, but obviously with the flowers we can also tell the places. The place I have chosen for this post is the Alps, or rather that strip of Alps that is located between 1000 and 2000 meters above sea level. That of the woods, but also the most suitable for relaxing walks in the midst of nature
Let’s start with a flower, or rather a family of flowers, which despite its name is extremely common in the Alps, where it acclimatized after a long journey that took it from Asia, through Northern Europe, to the Alps: the Himalayan Balsam.
In the image above you can see three different varieties. The yellow one, Touch-me-not balsam, lives at slightly higher altitudes and is a little less common, while the other two are found almost everywhere, from 400 to 1200 meters of altitude. It is a weed, which grows and spreads quickly, but its flowers are beautiful.
The images were taken in the Eastern Alps, with my SONY DSC-HX400V and my mobile phone, a Pixel 3XL.
The other flowers you see are the most common ones that you can meet in the Alps at medium altitude.
- Let’s start with Dark Mullein (Verbascum Nigrum), photographed in Pian delle Lastre, at about 1300 meters above sea level at the beginning of September 2021
- We continue with the Meadow Saffron (Colchicum autumnale). Be careful, the flower is toxic. The photo was taken in the same area as the previous one
- This beautiful Genziana (Gentianopsis ciliata) was instead photographed near Costalissoio, at 1400 meters above sea level
- And here is the beautiful Vicar’s Mead '(Angelica sylvestris). It’s amazing how bees are attracted to its flowers. Photographed in mid-September in Col Indes, about 1200 meters above sea level
- We conclude our journey among the flowers with the Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium), photographed near Lake Senaiga, at an altitude of 450 meters.
Now it is your time
I’ll stop here. Oh, actually I could go on and on about flowers for pages and pages, but I think now is your time to do it.
Remember: don’t just post the photo, tell us the story. So we will get to know each other better, in this garden of the world
If you wants to have a look at the amazing photos of flowers shared in the past, you can read:
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