The highways department have planted up our very un-exotic roundabout with rather splendid Crown Imperial lilies. We used to have a lovely one in the garden until we built our extension on it. I seem to remember that they disappear after they've flowered so you can't tell where they are. Anyway they look rather spectacular at the moment even if they do smell like fox wee. I think I could have done better on composition if I hadn't been standing in the middle of a roundabout with a dog barking.
Three good things:
1. Municipal planting.
2. My dining table was usable briefly - and then Rachel colonised it.
3. Art GCSE tomorrow - good to get one started.
nice narrative judith and a cracking crown imperial lily .... urban roundabouts planted with bulbs / bedding plants / shrubbery are quite common in nottingham
Might have known Cambridge would be up market with their round about flowers.....no common run of the mill there & these are magnificent! Well captured but would have loved to have seen you taking this in the middle of a traffic island!!!! Did you get pipped at?
Spectacular is right...these exotic lilies make quite a statement! Not sure that I've ever smelled fox wee, but I'm assuming it's rather unpleasant. Such a shame ~ these beauties should have a magnificent fragrance. :)
Fabulous flower and to think it's on a roundabout of all places! Shame about the smell for such a beautiful flower, but I've switched off the smell sensors on the computer so I can't tell!!
