Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: close up

hexagon IMG 0012

25 Feb 2025 9 3 38
Hexagon: pomme et pomme de terre.

Christmas cactus IMG 20250218 220222

19 Feb 2025 11 5 54
Flowers from our Christmas cactus, which, true to form, skipped Christmas and decided to flower in mid-February instead. For most of the year it is a very unimpressive looking plant, but it produces these lunatic flowers. It blooms in response to shorter days and longer nights so growing indoors under house lights probably confuses its flowering cycle. The parent of the Christmas Cactus, (or Schlumbergera), is from Brazil:- Copied from Wikipedia "Schlumbergera truncata occurs only in a small area of the coastal mountains of south-east Brazil, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, located in the southernmost part of the tropics. Sites where it has been found include the Organ Mountains (Serra dos Órgãos) in the Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos and in the Serra do Mar near to the city of Rio de Janeiro. Plants grow at altitudes of 700–1,000 metres (2,300–3,300 ft). Because of their altitude and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, the coastal mountains have high humidity – warm moist air is forced upwards into higher, colder locations where it condenses. S. truncata usually grows on trees (epiphytic),[3] or on rocks (epilythic)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumbergera_truncata

watermint-aug 26 2003 st bruno mint DSC 0249

27 Oct 2024 10 11 159
Watermint growing beside a small lake.

goldenrod bee st bruno=DSC 9034

23 Sep 2024 18 19 189
A bee balanced on a goldenrod frond.

jewel weed DSC 8997

09 Sep 2024 17 5 157
Jewel weed (Impatiens capensis; L'Impatiente du Cap) growing beside water. If you look closely there is also a very long-legged spider hiding under the leaf behind the flowers. I didn't see it until I got home, which I suppose is a lesson to look more carefully when I take the photos.

Downs-near Devil's Dyke-spotted orchid DSC 4459

27 Jun 2024 16 19 199
A spotted orchid growing on Edburton Hill, South Downs, Sussex.

sticky sage-2023 DSC 9155

12 Sep 2023 12 3 166
Sticky sage (Salvia glutinosa), a very aromatic plant with a slight lemon fragrance, grows very well in the shade. Popular with the bees.

grasshopper echincacea DSC 9087

10 Aug 2023 13 9 155
A young grasshopper hiding among the flowers.

gdn tradescantia side DSC 4488 edited

08 Jun 2023 17 6 191
Tradescantia flowers (spiderwort) after a light rain. They open in the morning and close in the afternoon, avoiding strong sunlight.

black swallowtail DSC 4425 edited edited

25 Jul 2022 7 3 122
An eastern black swallowtail butterfly

purple perilla DSC 2822

17 Sep 2021 8 5 164
Tiny purple perilla flowers. They are only about a few mm across but a big hit with the bumble bees.

st bruno november 2020 deer DSC 7900 X

09 May 2021 9 5 176
A white tailed deer from last autumn.

redpoll DSC 8711

18 Mar 2021 6 4 175
A redpoll (sizerin flammé, Carduelis flammea)- visiting the garden. These are tough little characters. They spend summer in the cold of the Arctic and come down here for the winter.

junco snow DSC0162

04 Dec 2020 4 1 196
Dark eyed Junco. Although these small birds are resident here all year, their numbers increase in winter as they move away from their breeding grounds which extend far North to the sub-arctic

broccoflower fractal IMG 2A 20191025 124739

31 Dec 2019 10 5 266
A broccoflower (Romanesco broccoli) showing natural fractal-like veggie geometry, Fibonacci spirals etc. Tastes OK too if it's not boiled to a mush.

St-bruno-coral root DSC 2264

27 Aug 2018 5 2 283
The tiny flower of the spotted coral root orchid, a woodland flower that survives by taking nutrients from fungi. It has no chlorophyll and no leaves. St. Bruno, Quebec

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30 Apr 2018 1 197
A small piece of polished Brazilian agate, photographed with a cell phone and magnifying lens. Curves and circles, a fractal-like swirls frozen in stone.

last days of summer DSC 0076

27 Sep 2015 2 375
The summer has irretrievably slipped into the first days of autumn, the days are shorter and the nights cooler, the insects chase the last few days of heat in the long grass.

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