In the language of flowers, the bluebell is a symbol of humility, constancy, gratitude, and everlasting love. Bluebells are often called fairy flowers. Some people believe that the dainty petals form perfect fairy hats, others that they are fairy thimbles, or that fairies climb inside the bells to shelter from the rain.
Common Bluebell
Japanese anemones, also known as windflowers, add a timeless grace to any late-summer or fall garden with their beautiful, nodding blooms on long, wiry stems. The foliage isn’t particularly interesting, but the flowers fill the midsummer-to-fall gap in gardens, appearing when few other perennials bloom. These perennials come in many shades of whites and pinks, with petals ranging from single rows to frilly doubles.
Japanese Anemone
White Japanese Anemone
Although these orchids have white petals, the variety of colors on them is mesmerizing.
The Regal Pelargonium has unmissable flowers that bloom in a trumpet shape. The flowers have six petals in bright purple, bright pink, pale pink, dark red, pillar box red or white. And the extravagance of the flowers is matched by the softness of the velvety leaves which also have a lovely scent. Captured in Santa Monica, California.
