Clusters of pinkish-white, 5-petaled, rose-like flowers in spring give way to firm blackberries of excellent eating quality that mature in summer. Rubus Fruticosus flowers, but no blackberries at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Rubus Fruticosus
Cream-colored garden roses offer a luxurious, romantic aesthetic, blending soft butter, ivory, and faint peach tones. They are highly sought after for elegant bouquets and centerpieces due to their dense, ruffled petals and high petal counts, which often mimic peonies.
Found one with a bud at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Cream-colored Garden Rose
Rosa ‘Louis de Funes’ is a fragrant, hybrid tea rose with striking orange-red blooms. It has a classic, elegant shape, a strong scent, and is disease-resistant.
Here is one from Fullerton Botanical Garden, with water droplets on the petals.
Rose ‘Louis de Funes’
A Grandiflora Rose and Rosa Crocus Rose at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Grandiflora roses are a hybrid class that blends the refined beauty of hybrid tea roses with the abundant clusters of floribunda roses.
Rosa Crocus Rose is a very robust and free-flowering rose, bearing large, rosette-shaped flowers with 41 petals.
Grandiflora Rose
Crocus Rose
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.
