Location Taken: Savage, Maryland
Time Taken: May 2010
This is another of those flowers whose name I haven’t a clue about, but whose shape and color I find awesome.
I mean, look at that marvelous shading from white to purple! A rather pretty purple, too, and there’s a fantastically colored center area too!
And then there’s those petals! Look at that center-petal curl! And all the other curling aspects! They kinda outline each petal in a really artistic fashion. I especially like how it forms those circles at the end.
I don’t think I’ve seen that shape anywhere else, really.
Except…. Wait a second….
That’s it! It looks just like some fire sprinkler designs I’ve seen when randomly staring at the ceiling!
What, don’t you stare at the ceiling at times? You should! There’s all sorts of nifty things up there! Like sprinklers that look like flowers!
It’s a spoon daisy! Or more accurately, a cultivar of the African daisy, Osteospermum. It was an annual I got at the Savage Plant Sale and I haven’t found it again since. I liked that one a lot.
I agree with the “liked that one a lot”. It’s an awesome plant, and it even has an awesome name!