Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: lavender

These flowers are so beautiful and cover vines with countless blossoms. Harry & David had a magnificent and beautifully trained wisteria (it may have been several plants) that covered heavy trellising and an arbor that created a shady cave with a bench inside to sit on. What fun to watch people wandering around while semi-cloaked in the darkness under the wisteria's cover!

Lilac roses are so gorgeous! It really is impossible for me to choose a favorite color of rose, but this one really is stunning, don't you think? There are many bushes at the Harry & David public garden that were totally covered with these stunning blossoms, each one a vision of perfection! :)

I have a soft spot for wisteria. My parents had a summer cabin at a recreational river community and in the area's center was a magnificent wisteria vine that must have been there for 50 years. The main vine was many feet in diameter and as it branched out, it was trained to cover a huge trellised area. The lush greenery offered protection against the summer sun and naughty kids loved to climb around up among the vines (I would NEVER do such a thing...truly! :D). We were never around when the wisteria was in bloom, so I was amazed when I finally saw how beautiful and fragrant the flowers were. Every time I see these vines I think back fondly at my childhood and teen year summer weekends at Summer Home Park.

Though they appear to be huge, these flowers were quite small, and were growing among a lush carpet of rich green leaves and dozens of other blossoms. I was able to single the pair out for a tight close-up! I found them while Steve and I were on the Ashland Garden tour a few years ago.

Lavender is a color, but it's also the name of an herb. This herb has gorgeous flowers and the plant is very easy to grow because it's drought-tolerant. Combine that with its deer and rabbit-resistance and it's easy to see why this hardy shrub is a favorite in many gardens! I found this beauty at a local garden tour in Ashland a few years ago.

Bearded Iris are truly stunning flowers and come in a rainbow of colors. A friend of ours has hundreds of them growing on her property and invited us to visit in May of 2013. I was not prepared for the amazing sight of all of those flowers! We had a marvelous day taking pictures and I got to practice my skills at capturing these blossoms. Breathtaking! Explored on March 10, 2016. Highest placement, page 2.

This image was taken at Pheasant Field Farm on Saturday, October 22, 2011.

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

What a surprise for me! We've had these flowers growing next to our Rhododendrons every year and it's obvious to me that they were planted previously, but I really didn't think I'd find out what they were called, since there are exactly one ZILLION types of flowers out there! :D But as luck would have it, I did a search for "purple bell flower" and after looking at about 500 pictures, I suddenly found myself looking at this flower!!! Hooray!!! Comfry is native to Europe and especially common in Britain and Ireland, where it is often seen along river banks and in ditches. This flower is considered to be an herb and is sometimes used topically to treat skin ailments and back pain. It was previously used internally for a variety of uses, but is now known to cause liver toxicity, which can lead to liver failure. However, there is evidence that the molocule, "allantoin," which comfry contains, can repair bone damage, and one of its nicknames is "knitbone." Further research has also shown that comfry contains an alkaloid called "symphytine", which causes cancer in rats. This is yet another plant which can be lethal if used in large amounts for medicinal purposes, yet has benefits if used carefully in small doses. If you would like to know more about this fascinating plant, Wiki has a page here: Wiki: Comfrey

[best appreciated at full size against black] Back in March, our hillside exploded into blossom as Henderson's Shooting Stars burst into bloom. Hundreds upon hundreds of flowers covered our property wherever there were trees to protect them from direct sunlight. These flowers are almost always a deep purple, but once in a rare while I would discover a very pale lavender one. Of course I needed to take pictures!! I think both color variations are beautiful! This image was taken in March, 2012.

2 more pictures above in notes! :) Have you ever grown anything from seeds before? It's really amazing to think that a huge plant could come from a little speck you put in some dirt and added water to! A few years ago, I got a bunch of different flower seeds for my first time and I planted them in little pots on our back deck to see if they would grow. This flower looks like one of the types I planted, so I think some seeds must have blown off the deck and found their way to this little area down by our well house. From Wiki: Phacelia linearis, with the common name Threadleaf phacelia, is a species of phacelia. It is native to western North America from western Canada to Wyoming to northern California, where it grows in forest, woodland, open scrub, and other habitat. A HUGE THANK YOU AND HUG to my ipernity Pod Sister, Pam J, who solved the mystery of this flower, which I couldn't identify!