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Published: 2019-07-17 10:33:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 211; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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A Walk on the Wild SideDedication: This Journal is for my very good friend M, 33M, whose support by way of insightful comments and discussions has been one of the best things to have happened here on DA for quite sometime. Her own art is stunning, varied, thought provoking and some of the very best I have encountered on DA. She is having a little local difficulty at the moment, but hopefully all will be resolved successfully in a week or so. In the meantime, this tribute to her features lots of wild flowers near to my new home and I know M just loves flowers!Here's to you, M.
We took a stroll Sunday along the top of the Bay, that is Auchencairn Bay, one of severalΒ cutting inland from the Solway Firth. We simply walked out of the gate at the bottom of our garden, strolled across the cow meadow, hopped over the Hass Burn and meandered along the overgrown footpath. The image below shows the view back, the line of the path being roughly the hedge rows that you can see on the right hand side, mid pict
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And what a beauty this is...the colors are excellent and I really enjoyed seeing your flowers David...Thank you again so much
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The only thing with the rugosa is that the flowers do not last very long - 2 or 3 days and the petals have dropped. But, the point I was making in the feature was that in the wild finding a perfect specimen is very difficult. Nature is not kind to its beauty.
Many Thanks
David
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For the suburban gardener, when they plant the rugosa, they are many
times disappointed when the flowers don't look like a Gardeners Rose
of Perfect Petals ....
For myself the Rugosa is my type of flower, wild, a bit torn up sometimes
in the petals, and sometimes a steady line of aphids crawling up the stalks...Β
M
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That's right, M. In the wild, beauty is fleeting and perfection an illusion, but in cultivation we try to capture both forever. I think I'm with you on this one, M.
David
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You're right, David, very beautiful flower! (and color! ) 
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A point I forgot to make explicitly in the Journal was that being wild flowers these examples are not perfect specimens - only occasionally do you find the ideal example. Windburn, diseases, damage from birds and storms all take their toll on wild flowers, so there is an extra element of reality in these shots.
Many thanks, Linda.
David
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Yes,... And I think all that comes across, too. 
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