An Abundance of Purple

 

These rhododendrons in bloom (in the cemetery where I often walk) drew my attention to the old stone cross between them, and I went round to the other side to check what it looked like from there.

It's an old family grave, five people with the same surname buried there between 1895-1952. No longer in care of the family, but returned to the church. Still well looked after - I supposed for a combination of historic intrerest, and the gorgeous rhododendron.

While azaleas are now fast getting past their prime beauty for the season, the rhododendron are at their very best just now - so I decided to go and visit them all! (Or almost, anyway...) All the photos below are of different rhododendron trees and bushes, all over the cemtery.

 

And all of them surrounded by a buzz of busy bees...

Finishing off with a different display of purple. A sign informed me that this old grave is now used as an example of using perennials for decoration.

Mosaic Monday: Lilacs & Rhododendron

A rather chilly spring and early summer here this year has meant an unusually long flowering season for some plants - for example lilacs and rhododenron. In the old graveyard where I often go for a walk, I found these two intertwined – a dark purple lilac tree, and a tall pale rhododendron, with its petals now dropping to the ground like snow. (This was Friday last week.)

Mosaic Monday

Macro Monday: Purple

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
                                                                             - Shakespeare

I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field
     and don't notice.
                                                                             - Alice Walker
                                                                                From "The Color Purple"

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the
      breaking of new blooms.
                                                                                  - Truman Capote

We call these ‘African Daisies’; I’m not sure what their correct name may be. Anyway I have a plant on my balcony, still producing new flowers in spite of the amounts of late summer/ early autumn rain we’ve had lately.

For Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos