The above 'photograph'
like last week's, was again not taken with a camera, the
flower head being scanned on a flatbed scanner. (Visit my
scanner pages to get instructions
on this technique.) Perhaps these shades of orange have
a blind spot in digital cameras rather like blues and normal
film cameras.
"Within a
month or two, in 1900, Silas Cole, the gardener at Althorp
Park, Northamptonshire, home of the Earl and Countess of
Spencer, Mr. W J Unwin, a grocer of Histon, Cambridge, and
Mr. E Viner of Frome in Somerset, all noticed a new 'waved
edge' form of sweet pea growing in their gardens. Silas
Cole was first to see his which had larger standards with
beautifully frilled edges and four flowers on one stem..
He named it 'Countess Spencer' and this is the reason why
all forms of the modern sweet-pea are know as 'Spencer Type'."--
details from Catalogue of Peter Grayson (Papilionaceae family).
Plant Portraits through the year
The
plants are arranged in alphabetical order with the date of the photograph
after it.
