Not a "garden" that I visited, but a field with a rare kind of crop in flower not often seen in Germany.
In a remote part of Hessen, close to the former border two hours north east of Frankfurt in a sparsely populated area, large fields of poppies are grown: Papaver somniferum - the opium poppy - is in flower these two weeks in June. Each year, when the fields show up in white and pink, photographers flock to this area to capture these beautiful delicate flowers, whose petals in fine shades of white and pink only last a day.
In Germany one needs permission to grow opium poppies even for non-commercial purposes - these fields are harvested to make poppy food stuffs, poppy seed oils and for medicinal purposes.
It was a fine summer day, rye and barley fields ripening, larks singing in the air above the fields.
I tried to capture the wavy golden textures of the grain in a series of semi-abstracts (they are best seen very large).
.... off to the next flower!
In a remote part of Hessen, close to the former border two hours north east of Frankfurt in a sparsely populated area, large fields of poppies are grown: Papaver somniferum - the opium poppy - is in flower these two weeks in June. Each year, when the fields show up in white and pink, photographers flock to this area to capture these beautiful delicate flowers, whose petals in fine shades of white and pink only last a day.
In Germany one needs permission to grow opium poppies even for non-commercial purposes - these fields are harvested to make poppy food stuffs, poppy seed oils and for medicinal purposes.
with cornflower
unfolding buds
It was a fine summer day, rye and barley fields ripening, larks singing in the air above the fields.
I tried to capture the wavy golden textures of the grain in a series of semi-abstracts (they are best seen very large).
rye
Motacilla flava - Western Yellow Wagtail
a double exposure
.... off to the next flower!
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