Dave from Osage and Orange posted a beautiful piece in defense of chicory a while ago, in which he mentioned that the flowers only open for a day. So I grabbed the camera immediately! The plant has thrown up a very tall spike which has many many buds, so although the two blooms from yesterday may not last, I am hoping for more to come.
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What an amazing flower - the centre just begs to be reproduced in blue wire and bugle beads!
Stunning!
Well it is so beautiful you would grow it for just one bloom, wouldn't you? I love the colour.
Hope you are well Hedgewitch and that life is treating you kindly.....
Hi Hedgewitch
That is one amazing flower! Who would have thought that something as bitter as chicory would produce as delicate and sweet a flower as that. xx
So lovely. They remind me of childhood summer car trips when the ditches along the country roads were covered in their amazing shade of blue. Thanks!!
I'm so glad you all loved this fleeting flower as much as me!!
Gorgeous photo! I love little lady Chicory... I especially admire her penchant for decorating what would be otherwise very uninspired locations... like the gravel at he edge of the road! I hear Chicory is one of the traditional flowers used in a garden "flower clock"-- I haven't made one of these, but once I realized that she only blooms until mid-day, I started calling her "my little morning flower"... and she's up long before this night owl lifts her sleepy head, I'll tell you that! (: Sasha
That's a great shot. Hope you're enjoying summer! :)
wow! truly nice!! that is a very lovely shade of blue that i like:) therese a friend of mine from australia posted her blooms on my flower blog. come and check it out:)
I don't grow chicory in my garden but she manages to pop up around it every year. I make sure no one weed whacks the area around my garden just so I can keep looking at the halo of blue around the stone boundries of it. Beautiful closeup picture!
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