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A Wonderful Spring Morning at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 27, 2019 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Asparagaceae Family, Iridaceae Family

A couple weeks ago, I spent a few hours photographing at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia. One of things I love about Lewis Ginter is their daffodils – in the spring they have so many beautiful daffodils throughout the gardens. The other great thing about Lewis Ginter is that it is about 100 miles south of Washington DC so spring arrives a couple of weeks earlier there than it does here.

It seems like every year, just as I’m about to go crazy from what feels like a never-ending winter – I start seeing photos of spring flowers taken at Lewis Ginter. And I decide I need to make a quick trip to Richmond.

This year I photographed daffodils, grape hyacinths and dwarf irises on my early spring visit.

Cum Laude Daffodils © 2019 Patty Hankins

Gigantic Star Daffodils © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’m sure I’ll be back photographing at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden again soon. But I wanted to share this wonderful taste of spring with you in case you are in as much need of spring as I am

Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemum – New Photo

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 25, 2019 | Asteraceae Family, New Photos

I’ve recently added a new photograph – Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemum – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/mum-vienna-waltz/

Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemum © 2019 Patty Hankins

I love seeing chrysanthemums at the local gardens in the fall. They bring such wonderful splashes of color and texture to what is often becoming a brown landscape. These Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemums, with their purple and white petals and the bright yellow petal tips made me smile when I saw them. I knew I had to photograph them and share their beauty with the world.

This photograph is available matted to 11 X 14 for $ 54 or 16 X 20 for $ 109.

Mt. Cuba Center

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 22, 2019 | Wildflowers

I’ve had a few questions about some of the gardens we’ll be visiting during my Photographing the Gardens of Philadelphia workshop in May.

Mt. Cuba Center is a native-plant garden located in Hockessin, Delaware. The center is located on the former estate of Lammont Dupont Copeland and his wife Pamela Cunningham Copeland. The Copelands moved to the area in the 1930s and over the next few decades developed formal gardens on their estate. In the 1960’s, they became interested in ecology and conservation of native plants. Landscape architect Seth Kelsey was hired to add woodland wildflower gardens and other native plant environments. Starting in the 1980’s, the Copelands expanded the scope of the native-plant studies on the estate and began to offer tours of their collection. After the Copelands died, their estate became a public garden. In 2013, the gardens opened to the public for general admission.

Currently, Mt. Cuba Center encompasses over 500 acres of natural lands dedicated to native plants. There are formal gardens, hills, streams, valleys and forests brimming with wildflowers.

These are a few of the spring-time photos I’ve taken at Mt. Cuba Center to give you an idea of what we might see in May.

May Apples

Yellow Trillium

Blue Flag Irises

Yellow Lady’s Slipper

Trillium Discolor

A Peaceful Moment at the Pond

Twisted Trillium

Irises at the Pond

Mt. Cuba Center is just one of the gardens we’ll visit during my Photographing the Gardens of Philadelphia Workshop in May. For more information about the workshop, visit https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/photographing-the-gardens-of-philadelphia-may-2019/

I’d love to have you join me for a week of photographing some of the beautiful gardens in the Philadelphia area.

If you missed the first two articles about the gardens we’ll be visiting, you can read about Chanticleer Garden at https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/chanticleer-garden/ and Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens at https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/shofuso-japanese-house-and-gardens/

A Few Peonies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 20, 2019 | Paeoniaceae Family

A couple years ago, I photographed several beautiful peony gardens. Here are a few more of the peony photos I took that year that somehow I haven’t shared with you yet

At Chanticleer Gardens outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In the Cutting Garden, Chanticleer Gardens © 2019 Patty Hankins

At Winterthur Gardens near Wilmington, Delaware

Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum – New Photo

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 18, 2019 | Asteraceae Family, New Photos

Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’ve recently added a new photo – Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/kournankouryouchrysanthemum/

When I saw these incredible chyrsanthemums at a local garden, I knew I had to photograph them. At first, I photographed a single mum. And then a close up of the center. And then a pair of them. As I continued to explore the garden, all of a sudden I found a large group of these spectacular mums planted very close together, so their blossoms pushed up against each other. So rather than seeing a separate flower, I saw continuous waves of motion as my moved from petal to petal, and flower to flower.

This photograph is available matted to 12 X 20 for $ 84 and 16 X 24 for $ 134

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