With longer days and the warmth of the spring sunshine, the garden is awakening to the the colours of spring. A snapshot of the garden in April as the season unfolds.
Photography (C) Shelley Hitchin
The April Garden
Tulips as the petals fade and fall
Capturing the details of Tulips as the petals fall, can draw you into the detail of the plants colours and textures as the plant moves along its lifecycle. From sitting and observing the plants in the garden, I enjoy pausing and taking in the plants form, colour palette and textures.
Embracing the seasons as they unfold, also offers an opportunity to connect with nature -nature connectedness, allowing time to pause, reflect and take notice/observe the changing seasons.
Here are some photographs capturing Tulips as their petals fade and fall. Here are black and white images where I capture the details of these flowers.
Photographs (C) Shelley Hitchin
The Tulip Garden
As April gets underway, the Tulips are now in full bloom. This year I have chosen a pastel colour palette, to welcome in the new season, as the garden starts to awaken to the warmth and light of spring. Love observing the unfolding season, with longer days to enjoy the garden when new shoots, buds, flowers and leaves start to emerge.
Viola – Delicate petals in the spring garden
With the clocks going forward, we welcome light and a season of new beginnings, growth and an abundance of blooms.
Viola flowers are delicate and vibrant – bringing both bold and pastel colours to the spring garden. Here is Viola ‘Sorbet Honeybee’. Golden yellow hues to brighten the garden.
(C) Shelley Hitchin
Hyrangea – Moving from Winter to Spring
As the season moves from winter into spring, pruning the spent flower heads of Hydrangeas is one pruning task that is on the list, ahead of the new growing season.
I really enjoy photographing Hydrangeas in spring , it is one plant that I revisit annually, to capture the petals through the lens, observing the details, decay, and the skeleton form that they display.
Photography (C) Shelley Hitchin
Wintering – The landscape
As we are in deep February and coming to the end of winter, going on a walk, connecting with nature, provides an opportunity to take a moment to pause, stop and observe the season. I love trees, observing their form, structure, colours and textures in winter and how they are part of the urban landscape.
Here are photographs of trees in an urban nature reserve, observing their details. Visiting the same place throughout the year provides opportunities to connect to the landscape that is both familiar and soothing and through photography provides an opportunity to document the season. Pausing to take in the atmosphere of the landscape, looking up. With the backdrop of the grey winter skies the structures of the trees are illuminated by the light.
Photography (C) Shelley Hitchin
Hydrangea – through the winter lens
Hydrangea’s hold interest from spring through to winter, from bud to when the leaves decay in winter.
Here are selection of photographs, capturing the delicate petals, in skeleton form.
Photographs (C) Shelley Hitchin 2024
Thistle in Autumn
Capturing the Thistle in its decay phase. Love the detail captured in the petals as the flower comes to the end of its life cycle.
Agapanthus – turning to seed
Love this time of year, as the light starts to draw back as we approach the Autumn Equinox. Time also to observe the flowers that are now gone, that have turned to seed. As the light captures their form, I love capturing their details. Black and white photography I really enjoy creating, as this to me really captures the plants character.
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