Spring Symphony

Stormdancing

gluwater

I like the 3-5th shots. The first two I think could use a different perspective. In the first one if you got closer to the ground and used a small DOF to get the closer flowers in focus and blur the further ones. Plus I think it would get rid of the street from the picture. Nice springtime shots.

kygarden

Looks like your Christmas fern is unfurling now like mine I'm looking forward to my cinamon fern being completely unfurled. I love those.

I like those wildflowers in the bottom center. We've got a lot of those too under the old oaks. They're very pretty.

Stormdancing

gluwater wrote:

I like the 3-5th shots. The first two I think could use a different perspective. In the first one if you got closer to the ground and used a small DOF to get the closer flowers in focus and blur the further ones. Plus I think it would get rid of the street from the picture. Nice springtime shots.

Thanks gluewater. That's my rendition of Street Photography. I need to stop playing in traffic.

Stormdancing

kygarden wrote:

Looks like your Christmas fern is unfurling now like mine I'm looking forward to my cinamon fern being completely unfurled. I love those.

I like those wildflowers in the bottom center. We've got a lot of those too under the old oaks. They're very pretty.

I'm not sure if that's a Christmas Fern or not. They grow wild all over the woods here. We've just always called them Fiddle Heads. Thanks for looking.

kygarden

Stormdancing wrote:

I'm not sure if that's a Christmas Fern or not. They grow wild all over the woods here. We've just always called them Fiddle Heads. Thanks for looking.

Right. Besides being sold in garden centers, it's a fairly widespread native:
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/ferns/polystichumacro.html

Stormdancing

kygarden wrote:

Right. Besides being sold in garden centers, it's a fairly widespread native:
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/ferns/polystichumacro.html

Cool, that's them alrighty.

Your are very knowledgable about horitculture and from what I've seen your gardens are just lovely. Do you work in the industry or is this just a hobby?

kygarden

Stormdancing wrote:

Cool, that's them alrighty.

Your are very knowledgable about horitculture and from what I've seen your gardens are just lovely. Do you work in the industry or is this just a hobby?

Thanks for the compliment No, I'm not in the business...it's just a hobby. I find it very relaxing and rewarding. I would love to be in the business though! My dream day at work would be rising at the break of dawn...having a nice cup of coffee while looking out my window at my personal garden as the sun began to pour in the window....then out to the greenhouse or fields to tend to the plants. No rush hour, no nothing Of course, my dream job would be where I could work on my own without employees.