Summer Flowers of England. Flower Photos By Alex Albion.

Summer Flowers of England.

Flower Photos By Alex Albion.

Story Text By Uncle Monty.

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Flowers are closely intertwined with human

life. Where there are no flowers, life can be

quite unpretty and pretty drab, too. Human

ocassions like weddings, Valantines, burials,

Church Services, and Moms' Birthdays, are all

enchanced by the presence of lovely flowers or

nice plants. The worldwide floral industry

stretches into billions of dollars profit each

year. Best of all, flowers are more or less

available at all times and at all seasons of

the year. So if you want to send a bouquet,
either say in mid-winter or mid-summer,

you can. Though such bouquets are no longer

cheap to buy or to send like they once were.

Some flowers can be darn right expense, too,

like rare orchidaceous -orchid for example

that can fetch several hundreds of dollars

per stem.

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At Canterbury. The Compass Rose, no less!

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I’m sorry to say, but I don’t know the correct

or proper names of many of the summer flowers

and plants that I’ve photographed here over the

past 45 or so days. But that doesn’t distract one

bit from the sheer beauty of many such flowers

and plants. And that’s the reason why I wanted

to share such beauty with you, my many blog

readers from around the world. Looking at these

flowers and plants of England brings joy to our life

in their creation, their shape, their colour and their

delicate texture that no man can truly replicate

without the seed or the combination of rain, sun-

light, and summer days. All too often, modern

human being don’t stop to ever smell the roses

or even stop to look closely at what is free to

see as we walk down the street and marvel at

the wonder of such growing and glowing things

that are sometimes only very momentary and

then gone completely long before the dreary

days of winter’s cold shoulder and its bleakness.
Unless they’re evergreens, we don’t see them

again until next springtide and summertide.
But we could well be dead by then, so look and

enjoy them while you can like I do for it

could well be the last time you do or can.
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At Elephant and Castle.

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I might add that while I do not know the proper names of many flowers and plants that I have photographed at this summertide, I do know at least the common names of such popular flowers and plants as roses, lillies, pansies, carnations, chrysanthemums, tulips, daffodils, and azaleas. When we start getting into the science of flowers and horticulture I soon become lost in their scientific appellation and Latin signatures. Such are for professional gardeners and flower growers, but not for folks like me that couldn't even run an amateur garden plot at this point. That nevertheless is no bar to enjoying and appreciating flowers and plants of every kind no matter where they're from. The photos here of the flowers I present are also listed by the places I saw of them at in and around London or geographically not that far from the British capital like at Benjamin Disraeli's Beaconsfield and at the small seaside town of Margate.
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At Ilford. ~~~
At Epping Forest.

At Margate.

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At Beaconsfield.~~~
At Lewisham. ~~~
At the various places I trudged, I made a point of re-
cording some of the flowers and plants that caught my
eye for this short piece "Summer Flowers of England,"
which only covers a speck of all the various growing
things of the English summertide, 2oo9. My flower
intention here is to be simply light and fluffy
for a change ... Hope you like!!!
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Summer cheers, Uncle Monty.
+Sea Sunday, 2oo9.

Dear Ida Negri. Head Housekeeper, at
The Royal Masonic Hall, for 30 years!!
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Lovely Louisa Dunnigan, 19, daughter
of Professor of Film Brian Dunnigan.
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