Hydrangea Spread
by Sandi OReilly
Title
Hydrangea Spread
Artist
Sandi OReilly
Medium
Photograph - Photogaphy, Digital Art
Description
Our hydrangeas have come out and expanded so that you can barely see the leaves this year. The shades of color are periwinkle, purple and all shades of blue. I took this photo to show some of the periwinkle blue blossom against some of the lighter periwinkle blossoms in the back ground. I have painted this image and added two texture to it.
Hydrangea macrophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to China and Japan. It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 2.5 m (8 ft) broad with large heads of pink or blue flowers in summer and autumn. It is widely cultivated in many parts of the world in many climates.
The inflorescence of Hydrangea macrophylla is a corymb, with all flowers placed in a plane or a hemisphere or even a whole sphere in cultivated forms. Two distinct types of flowers can be identified: central non-ornamental fertile flowers and peripheral ornamental flowers, usually described as "sterile". A study of several cultivars showed that all the flowers were fertile but the non-ornamental flowers were pentamers while the decorative flowers were tetramers. The four sepals of decorative flowers have colors ranging from pale pink, red fuchsia purple to blue. The non-decorative flowers have five small greenish sepals and five small petals. Flowering lasts from early summer to early winter. The fruit is a subglobose capsule.
Nature Photography by Sandi O'Reilly, All Rights Reserved and Copyrighted. For any questions, please contact me through FAA's email service, happy to help.
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June 30th, 2013
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Comments (61)
Sandi OReilly
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, Beverly, appreciate your Vote, many blessings to you!!
Beverly Guilliams
Gorgeous Focus on that one Beautiful Blue Hydrangea.............Blessings to ya v.
Linda Phelps
L I love these flowers. There are wonderful in bouquest of flowers. Interesting processing on this image.
Sandi OReilly
Jeff, they do take off and become big bushes :) Thanks for your great comment, sure your wife is really happy having this plant growing in your yard!! Thanks for the L!!
Jeff Folger
love my Hydranga, Gave it to my wife as a house plant years ago and now it's quite a bush.. L
Sandi OReilly
Very kind of you to say, Nick, thank you very much, like your style of photography as well :) Thanks much for your f/v!!
Sandi OReilly
Brenda, sounds like either a good thing or not a good thing, raining a lot I guess? Thanks for the comment :)
Nick Boren
I really like how you composed this one Sandi and I really like your style of photography. ;-) fv
Sherri Of Palm Springs
Good Morning again Sandi Dear, you do such pretty pretty work, this little Hydrangea is so pretty ..love it my friend fv have a great day.. Sherri
Sandi OReilly
Thank you very much, Brenda, for your great comment!! Are you getting a ton of rain, we are, maybe that is why? Appreciate your f/v!!
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