This is my favourite anemone right now: Anemone coronaria ‘Bordeaux’, instantly attractive with it’s slightly furry claret-coloured petals and lacy green collar
When the flower opens the furrowed velvet petals beg to be touched, but it is that purple, iridescent centre that pulls my heart strings.
If you look closely you can see the cause of the iridescence: diffraction grating fine wavy undulations at the base of the petals and on the anthers
And a bit closer to see the cause of the interference patterns
Then right down to the smutty dark purple central cone. Sigh!
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Stunning photographs! Lovely colours and details.
Thanks Peter! All with an old iPhone and Olloclip too.
Wow! Beautiful and velvety – they just kept getting more and more interesting.
🙂 Don’t they just!
Gorgeous! Great detailed shots, too.
If only I could hold my phone steadier!!
I wondered if you were going deeper and deeper and would come out in a different dimension! The ones you did go through are beautiful!
Lol, if only I had an electron microscope! I did take you to the black hole at the centre though.
That’s true, you did!
Fantastic photos, what a beautiful flower! They would certainly brighten up any garden.
It definitely does Sue. Those wonderful blue ones are budding up now too. I love anemone!
Ah that’s lovely. I have Bordeaux waiting to be planted. Hope it will survive and look like yours.
🙂 I’m sure it will. Anemones are pretty resilient.
Beautiful! Those colours are amazing close up!
Yep, and I am a sucker for shiny things!