The Colour | Young | New
While I'm not religiously following the daily prompts, I am using them as a springboard for taking photos for when it works best for me. I go through each of the emails with the prompts and suggestions and I've been keeping track of them in a notebook. That means I have a few things floating around my head as ideas for photos and can therefore usually find one that more readily applies. One of the prompts was Green. Too easy.
There were a few fleeting moments of warm sunlight this afternoon (yep that golden light) while I was doing the ball throwing thing for the dogs, so I put the macro lens on to take some photos of the green foliage catching that warm glow.
I really like this ground cover. It seems to grow quite happily without too much input from me (aka watering and pruning) and flowers pretty much all year round. It's quite gorgeous when the flowers open in the morning and I've posted quite a few photos of the flowers for various prompts. At night the flowers tend to close up and the leaves show their silver underside.
I have no idea what type of plant they are, so here goes a google search:
Silver carpet (Dymondia margaretae) is a ground-hugging, perennial, growing 1-3 inches high and slowly spreading 1-2 feet across. Silvery foliage is comprised of narrow leaves that are pale green avoe and silvery-white below. Small yellow daisy-like flowers grow to 1 inch across and provide modest accent character in the summer. It is a great alternative to having a lawn because it is able to withstand light foot traffic. It tolerates full sun and heat, and is adapted to low amounts of supplemental water during summer.
I vouch for them being able to tolerate foot traffic - Zimi loves sleeping on it at night. I've often come out to a rather squashed looking flower bed.
Below is the leaf from the Robyn Gordon Grevillea - I like the simplicity of this shot and the way the side of the leaf is catching the golden light. This plant is another favourite of mine. It grows easily, is drought tolerant and the native birds love it, especially the Noisy Minor birds and the Rainbow Lorikeets. I'm hoping to pick up a few more when I go to the nursery soon.
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault