Center of Attention
by Darren Fisher
Title
Center of Attention
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A stunning macro image of a blooming flower. I love the bright colors that these blooms come in. How can nature get much better? This would be a beuatiful piece in any room of your home, office, or a waiting room. This flower is called Osteospermum, or also known as a Daisy Bush. The daisy-like composite flower consists of disc florets and ray florets, growing singly at the end of branches or sometimes in inflorescences of terminal corymbose cymes. The disc florets are pseudo-bisexual and come in several colors such as blue, yellow and purple. The hardy types usually show a dark blue center in the disc until the yellow pollen is shed. The ray florets are female and are found diverse colors such as white, cream, pink, purple, mauve to yellow. Some cultivars have "spooned" petals such as "Pink Whirls". Many species flower a second time late summer, stimulated by the cooler night temperatures. Hardy types show profuse flowering in the spring, but they do not get a second flush of flowers. Osteospermum are popular in cultivation, where they are frequently used in summer bedding schemes in parks and gardens. Numerous hybrids and cultivars have been grown with a wide range of tropical colors. Yellow cultivars tend to have a yellow center (sometimes off-white).
Plants prefer a warm and sunny position and rich soil, although they tolerate poor soil, salt or drought well. Modern cultivars flower continuously when watered and fertilised well, and dead-heading is not necessary, because they do not set seed easily. If planted in a container, soil should be prevented from drying out completely. If they do, the plants will go into "sleep mode" and survive the period of drought, but they will abort their flower buds and not easily come back into flower. Moreover, roots are relatively susceptible to rotting if watered too profusely after the dry period.
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May 10th, 2016
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Comments (27)
Rene Crystal
Fantastic macro, Darren. How can nature get much better you ask? By you capturing her beauty I say. Congrats on all your features - very well deserved. Adding to my Fav collection right now.
Donna Kennedy
Re-visiting Darren, Congratulations on being selected for a Featured Artist of the Week in Visions of Spring!
HH Photography of Florida
Congratulations on being featured as Special Featured Artists of the Week in the Visions of Spring group, 5/21/16. Lovely detail and color. L/fv