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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Coneflower or Echinacea or Painted Daisy?

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com

Happy Tuesday from this pretty corner of my garden.  These beauties have been blooming for just over a week now.  What do you call them?  Either of these names..coneflower and echinacea…seem quite ugly to me for these perfect, pretty flowers.  But when I googled it that's what I found.  
Or this third option...painted daisies.  Personally I love that one best.  Does a rose smell as sweet by any other name?  I was never convinced that it would.

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com

I confess that I’m completely enchanted with the way the petals transform in colour through oranges, pinks and fuchsias as they bloom.  I don’t think that colour scheme gets pulled off as well anywhere else in the world.  With the exception of sunrises and sunsets maybe.

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com

I love that these are just such a classic style flower.  Isn’t this pretty much what you drew when you first started drawing flowers as a child?  Or still draw if you're a doodling-in-the-margins type of person like me?

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com

And so I thought I would snip a few and make a little bouquet to brighten this little corner of the patio.  Ah, that’s nice!  Just the thing to cheer up a side table, maybe even inspire someone to take their work outside for a while on a summer afternoon.

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com
(lantern, pot and vase all IKEA)

And oh look at that.  My skirt today matches one of those stunning Orange Pink Sunset colours exactly…there must be a good word for that.

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com

Serendipity.

Now there would be a pretty name for a pretty flower 
that would smell just as sweet.

Painted Daisy | personallyandrea.com

Do you know if there's a way to get the name of a flower changed?

Wishing you happy days in your garden, whatever form it comes in.