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| Mock oranges from my garden, ©AGC LLC all rights reserved |
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| Giant Dahlias in bottles, ©AGC LLC all rights reserved |
I am finally able to post these images that I took last year during a couple of shooting sessions that I did in my own yard. Flowers are always my favorite subject- no matter how many times I arrange them or photograph them, I still marvel at their beauty and expressiveness.
The white blossoms are mock oranges which grow on large, open-branched woody bushes. They really do have the most intoxicating scent of orange, and in their season they fill my yard with orangey delight. It has taken years for these wonderful old fashioned shrubs to recover from abuse at the hands of a former occupant of my house. As that person was moving out before my husband and I bought the house, they cut down giant armloads of the mock orange branches which were at the peak of blooming. They filled their car with the branches and left the nearly century-old bushes seriously hacked and mutilated. It took many years of careful tending by my gardener husband for them to recover. Now after 20 years they are back in full glory, arching over the driveway, making a wonderful fragrant bower. Although the weather has been pretty severe, spring might really be here at last, and with any luck their season will soon be here- I can't wait!
