This summer, one of the flowers I photographed at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland was an amazing Spider Flower. What caught my eye was the shape and all the gorgeous shades of pink.
The Spider Flower – Cleome hassleriana – is an annual plant. The plants are known for their long seed pods that give the flowers their distinctive shapes. The variety of Spider Flower I photographed is the Spirit Frost Spider Flowers.
Here’s the whole flower – the plant was between 2 and 3 feet tall.
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
A close-up view of the petals and some of the seedpods
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
And the flower from above
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
Spider Flowers bloom all summer long – so I’ll keep an eye out for more varieties next summer in local gardens.
i caught a whiff of something that smelled familiar, and was curious then i find this plant . It smelled like marijuana it also looked like it almost the leaves the sticky neck of this thing had me in aw, if any thing smelled like pot this was it, so i dug it up and have had it for almoat three years and have enjoyed it ever sence i found it .My grandmother said it was a Bird of paridice, but now i can show her what this pretty pink thing is . thanks Scott moon
me too: my story of this find was just as mystical