Common Beauty

East of Beauliu in Hampshire, England is the Exbury Gardens (inset). That's supposed to be a famous garden belonging to a prominent family there, the Rothschild banking family.The garden is said to cover an area of 200-acre and has a large collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. European gardens or any other garden in the West often appear glorious in the magazines.The flowers seem always to be in full bloom and the gardens look so colourful and well-kept - very unlike the garden at home; but wait a minute - When I took a walk in the garden the other day, I saw for the first time the beauty of the different flowers there. The garden may be unkempt and the flowers, common; but if you were to take your time to have a good look at them, you'd find that they are indeed beautiful. What is common is not necessarily ugly. Appreciate them, won't you?

Can you identify the flowers in my garden?










Comments

Liudmila said…
Interesting, what's the name of the 3 flower?

The modern plants can flower different times a year now, but when these gardens were created, they were beautiful only once a year.
footiam said…
Don't know their names.These flowers are so common that one doesn't bother to learn their names!