Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: allium

A while back I featured a series of garlic as its bud began to burst open to expose the countless florets inside. I found this display of developing allium buds at the Harry & David public garden and had fun using depth of field to focus on one while showing that there were many in the back

Here is the garlic flower in full bloom, its florets opening to the warm sunshine above. Down below among the blades of drying grass lays the discarded bud covering, gone but not forgotten. Thank you for visiting my pictures and watching this show!

And finally, with the florets now spreading out and opening up, this bud covering will fall off with the next stiff breeze. It was a great experience taking pictures from start to finish, and something I'd always wanted to do!

It won't be too long before this cap falls off, but right now these garlic florets are giving this cap a decidedly jaunty appearance as they grow larger and pop out from under the covering!

Here is another view of the cap as it's becoming unseated. By taking a picture from this angle, the cap appears vertical, but it's actually at an angle (look at the previous image).

The bud covering is slowly losing its grip on the florets which are straining for their first peek at the great big world!

The cap is now beginning to lose its grip as the two halves of the covering is pulled apart!

It's such fun to watch the bud covering split more and more, exposing the ever-growing florets inside. Here the covering looks like curtains pulled back!

I looked at the garlic buds every day and took pictures as I saw interesting progress. Here the bud covering has split under the strain from the growing florets inside.

We have a few garlic flowers in our front yard that were planted before we moved here and I love them! They make wonderful photography subjects and in 2012 I decided to take pictures of the buds as they grew and finally bloomed. There are 9 pictures in all, so I will post one each day with the hopes that you don't get too bored by the same subject. Here is the first one, which shows a pair of stalks that form an X!

When Steve and I moved to our home in southern Oregon, there were only a few flowers which had been planted, and one was a group of garlic flowers. Over the years there have slowly been more flowers and last year we got about a dozen enormous blossoms to enjoy. This flower picture was captured in July of 2012.

Thanks to Pam J for confirming that these are a kind of allium, more specifically, Ornamental Chives. I couldn't resist the opportunity to get some fun bokeh in the background with some crisp focus on the foreground cluster. Yet again, this is a picture I captured at the Ashland Garden Tour a few years ago.

One of the coolest floral sights is witnessing an allium (onion species) grow and then finally bloom. Every day the bud casing grows larger and you will begin recognize the shape of florets forming in their pointy-hat house. They will continue to grow ever-larger and strain against the sheath-like covering, stretching it until you can see the florets clearly. Eventually the bud cover cannot withstand the pressure any longer and it splits open, the still-forming florets bursting out into the air! What a show to watch as the florets continue growing until they form a glorious round ball! This was another gem I photographed on the Garden tour in Ashland a few years ago.

This morning when I was about to take pictures of the Bachelor's Buttons, I saw this tiny bee on one of the Allium flowers and couldn't resist taking some pictures! This little guy is just 1/3" in size!

Last fall I bought a bunch of bulbs from Tulip World and this spring I've been rewarded with a riot of beautiful flowers, including hyacinths, daffodils, and now, these gorgeous allium flowers! Did you know that all onions are in the allium family? They are resistant to animals like moles or deer, unlike the tulip bulbs I planted, all of which were feasted upon by moles, boo hoo! Oh well, I'm so happy with these flowers, and we are also getting beautiful traditional irises blooming now too! Hooray!! Explored on May 9, 2013. Highest position #438.

Visiting my wonderful blooming bulb garden this morning, I spotted a bit of pink next to the ground, and found a gorgeous blossom peeking up shyly through the leaves. Noticing that a few others had begun to open as well, I enjoyed taking many pictures with the hopes of capturing the beauty that I saw. This is my favorite, with glowing upper petals and delicate details, and the promise of more blossoms soon to come! I didn't realize I would be getting flowers that look like these and I'm overjoyed by these lovely blossoms! Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism. Wikipedia: Georgia O'Keeffe