Sometimes it's good to get down and have a closer look at flowers. The detail is quite amazing. Have a look at the auricula...
And then there's the sanguinaria canadensis. This is also known as bloodroot and this is the double form. I don't usually grow double flowers as they tend to be sterile and unattractive to insects. In this case I have made an exception...
It is a wonderfully constructed plant. It emerges as a tube with the leaf is wrapped round the stem and the flower . The leaf then folds back to reveal a little button flower.
It then gently unfurls...
To reveal an explosion of tiny petals.
Exquisite .......
