Transience

The petals are starting to drop from the giant Himalyan lilies. They are such dramatic plants at over 6 feet tall with a sweet, heady scent. Soon the hundreds of seeds will form and ripen in each flower head.

The rose "Rhapsody in Blue" last a few days before making way for more buds.

 The most perfect Peony "Jan Van Leeuwn" is showing signs of decay and the seed pods are begin to swell.

Clematis montana "Freida" begins to lose its petals and changes from a pink and and multi-petalled to a green understated seed head.

"I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head."
— Omar Khayyám (The Ruba'iyat Of Omar Khayyam;)