When I was out walking, I found this flower growing on the street and picked a bit to take home. I think it's an anemone. (Please let me know if I'm wrong- it happens often!) The petals are so very delicate. If I touch them, they fall off. I think they are very beautiful.
I think they are beautiful too. I know them as Japanese anemones, my nana grows them in her garden and I have some in a vase at the moment too, a gift from my her. I love how you have captured them and can’t wait to see what it gets turned into!
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Very pretty, the actual flower, and your embroidery. I always enjoy seeing your inspiration and your work.
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This is so delicate and wonderful. Thanks for sharing this. Can’t wait to see more of that embroidery
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You always have such lovely images/embroidery.
That would also make a lovely painting in shades of white.x
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i think my heart might just skip a few beats if I found that on a walk
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Japanese anemones – they come in white and pink. Lovely, aren’t they?
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Just lovely Melissa – both the real flower and your interpretation.
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Here, we call them Autumn anemones, which is a beautiful name, too – one of my favourite flowers!
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We have a whole bunch of different ones around our house, white, salmon, deep pink. They’re fabulous because they’re flowering when everything else is shutting down in autumn. We call the Japanese Wind Anemones. Be careful growing them though, they can turn into extremely invasive weeds as they spread from suckers underground.
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Yes, pull up a little piece and take it home and it will colonise its little patch and give you flowers every year. Where are mine, I must go and look if they are budding up yet 🙂
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I love anemones. they are so beautiful and so delicate. You have done a wonderful job embroudering them!
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Yes, it’s definitely a Japanese anemone. My mother-in-law had a very big patch of them growing in a dryish, shady part of her garden, all white just like your one. I love them – and I must put them on my list of plants for our place.
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gorgeous
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Oh these are just beautiful and remind me of my mother’s garden, she grew them in an enormous clump. – they are definitely Japanese Anemones and they come in white and pink varieties.
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we have gazillion in the garden here – Japanese Anemones – they’re the sign of cooler weather on the way. They’re pretty tough here, bobbing in the wind …
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I’ve never heard of anemone flowers before. I love how the petals sort of undulate and how they’re offset by the leaves and button center in your embroidery. Thank you!
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somehow i don’t think we have those in kansas…but i am adoring yours!
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Yes – a Japanese Anemone. I love them. I have one here in France with a French name – Honorine Joubert. Theyt seem reasonably happy with the warmer weather, though they tend to be over sooner than they were in my English garden…
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Yes, they are Japanese or wind anemones – Anemone hupehensis. While they do spread with some enthusiasm, they are a terrific autumn flower and take some shade.
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and we are desperately waiting for the spring anemones here in ireland!
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