Spring Showers
by Darren Fisher
Title
Spring Showers
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful macro image of some water drops on the blooms of some orange and yellow African Daisy flowers. 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.
Uploaded
May 22nd, 2017
Statistics
Viewed 1,121 Times - Last Visitor from Beverly Hills, CA on 03/29/2024 at 8:32 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (26)
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your beautiful art being chose as one of the Special Featured Artists of the Week on the homepage of the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer group! l/f
Randy Rosenberger
Your artwork recently submitted to our group WFS, has been chosen to be featured on our homepage with other members of our family of friends and fine artists. Thanks for sharing the beauty.
Rene Crystal
Darren, what a beauty this macro is! Congrats on your Feature in Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer - so deserving. A Fav for sure.
Debby Pueschel
Congratulations on your Feature of the week in Visions of Spring -Glances of Summer. LFGTw