I’m actually early to the party this time. With rain headed our way, I thought it good to go ahead and do this month’s scans. Click images for larger view. Apologies for lazy nomenclature and mis-IDs.
Update [7/15/2007]: As Layanee and Carol both pointed out, there’s a big article on scanning in the latest Horticulture (which has been sitting in my huge stack of unread gardening magazines). It’s by Ken Druse, so you know it’s gotta be good. (Print’s not dead. Sign up for a free issue of Horticulture.)
Monarda, Asian lily, sedum, spiraea, lychnis, Rosa ‘Cuisse de Nymphe’, allium, daucus, stachys (the other one), Scotch thistle.
Astrantia, viola, sorbaria (about to pop), verbascum, sedum, that weed that looks like fried eggs, digitalis, Verbena bonariensis, Verbena hastata, coneflower, teasel, rock garden campanula?, wild composite (aster?).
Digitalis, Asian lily, allium, astilbe, monarda, sorbaria (popped), astrantia.
When I read your post that you had scans posted, I wasn’t expecting real scans! What a nice surprise, beautiful, I had scanned flowers and leaves several years ago, you have inspired me to try again.
That’s awesome…I wish I knew how to use my printer’s scanning function.
Ellis: Big article in the latest Horticulture on scanning flowers! I think they copied your idea! Lovely scans!
What a wonderful presentation of the blooms. Thanks.
Cool scans, I think I like the top one the best. And Layanee beat me to the big news that Horticulture magazine has an article in their newest issue about scanning flower pictures. It’s written by Ken Druse.
Thanks for participating in Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day in your own unique way!
Carol at May Dreams Gardens
That’s so neat! You did a great job with the scans. What will you do now with all of your scanned blooms? I’d have to make a bouquet or something because I couldn’t throw all of those beautiful blooms in the trash.
Very lovely and wonderful assortment of blooms. I agree with the rest that the scanning presentation is unusual and very nice. I can’t wait to see some more.
Thanks,
Alyssa
Robin: At first it was hard to harvest blooms for scanning. My wife is allergic to flowers so I’m not in the habit of bringing them into the house. But it’s actually a very small amount. It just looks like a lot on the screen. You can’t even tell in the garden.
That said, those that float well I’ll put in an old dairy stanchion waterer that I’ve got in the shade garden. The others just go to the compost pile.
Alyssa: If you click on the Art category in the sidebar, you’ll see all my posts about scanning (plus a lot of other artsy stuff). Or if you search for ‘bloom day’ you’ll at least turn up the bloom day scans I’ve been doing since April.
Very beautiful post. Such a great variety of different textures.
It’s the middle of July and time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. You have lots of beautiful blooms in your garden. Lots is happening in My Canadian Garden … hope you can stop by for a visit. I will be giving scans a try, yours turned out lovely.
What a lovely way to present your blooms for blooms day Craig! My blooms are presented in the more traditional way, come and have a look. 😉 BTW Glad you enjoyed my post on Piet Oudolf.
Nice array of flowers. I think Botanical scanning is going to become a lot more popular. I like the depth it gives the flowers. I have only tried scanning foliage before with mixed results. I will have to check out that article.
Your Bloom Day display is always unusual. Thanks for sharing.
love the scans and looking forward to reading your tips on how you did them.
Inspiring!
Very, very cool – I love the way the monarda looks in the scans. What great blooms to share!
(joining the chorus) Love the scans! I gotta try that.
Yea, you did a great job!
These are cool. I read that the camera lens distorts but the scanner does so to a much lesser extent,that’s why you can get such great detail from scans.
The middle scan is my favorite group, Craig, with its yellows, blues and purples. I may not like to scan my own flowers but enjoy seeing yours. The teasel and mullein look excellent in that company.
Do you think the little aster-like daisy could be a fleabane/Erigeron? There’s something about the rays that makes me think it could be. And the fried egg flower might be Butter and Eggs/Toadflax/Linaria vulgaris. That comes in a boatload of colors as a cultivated annual form these days.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I believe you are correct on both IDs. Thanks Annie.
I’m going to have to start paying better attention to the seed catalogs. I never realized you could now grow butter and eggs that doesn’t look like butter and eggs.
Beautiful. It is both surreal and lovely.
Wow! These are stunning. Well done, you!