Blooming today are the gorgeous Korean daisies. From a tiny little rooted-cutting passed along from a friend, we have masses and masses of these old-fashioned beauties. I share them with all my clients and not only do they love them for late season color and fragrance, but so do the bees and butterflies on the wing in autumn.
Click to view larger to see the pollen clinging to its eyes and body.
Korean Daisy (Chrysanthemum ‘Single Apricot Korean’) and Pollen-dusted Bee
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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."
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Korean Daisy (Chrysanthemum ‘Single Apricot Korean’) and Pollen-dusted Bee
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What a great close-up!
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Wow Kim, that photo has everything for me. Color, clarity, content and composition! Beautiful!
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Thank you Anne and Kathy for your very kind words.
The Korean daisies come in a beautiful array of pinks–from very light almost white to deep peachy rose pink–I waited for the bee to land on the deeper colored flowers. Oftentimes the center florets are granny smith apple green!
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