Exploring England #8
Garden Photography: Urban Spaces
In the warmth of a September evening, Truro is bright with natural colour. Beautiful hanging baskets greet visitors to Truro Cathedral.
Window boxes overflowing with greenery and planters filled with late summer blooms decorate the streets.
Begonias, all velvety yellows, oranges and reds, are complemented by delicate purple salvia.
These vibrant flowers fill me with anticipation for my own Southern Hemisphere summer!
Enjoy more blooming urban spaces with Jude.
The Eternal Traveller 
For someone who is surrounded by white everywhere I look, this was a true breath of fresh air. My gardening pulse is quickening. Love those planters and hanging baskets. 🙂
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Aren’t those hanging baskets gorgeous.
I would love to see some photos of the snow, Judy. It doesn’t snow here in winter, and at the moment we’re having a very hot summer. Our daughter is working in a ski resort in the Rockies in Canada and her snow photos are amazing.
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Looks like a perfect time to visit Truro, with those colorful flowers. We have an Episcopal Church here in Fairfax named Truro. We don’t go there, but I wonder if the name comes from this one in England. 🙂
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We usually visit anywhere in Europe in September. We find the weather is great and all the summer gardens are still flowering nicely.
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It’s the perfect time to travel – September and October – in my book!
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We think so and we usually have great weather at that time of year.
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Ahh what beautiful, colourful blossoms!!
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Thanks Lorraine. I just adore the begonias.
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What gorgeous colors Carol.
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I really like the colours in those hanging baskets – yellow, purple and white really go well together. Thanks, Miriam.
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That’s exactly what I need to see right now – beautiful, colourful flowers. Love the photos and thanks for sharing! have a great week ahead!
xo Yvonne
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Thank you, Yvonne.
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It looked very quiet in Truro on that evening! I wonder whether that is the case now? Love the huge stone planters – are they pelargoniums? The pink and white flowers? Or perhaps hydrangea as they look rather large. Thanks for sharing this one Carol(e) with or without the e?
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No ‘e’. Glad you enjoyed this post, Jude. We visited Truro to see a friend of Mr ET’s. They live not far from the centre of town and we went for a walk. It was about 7.30 pm and it was quiet but I do like to try for no people in my photos usually. I took a close up look at the original photo of the pink and white flowers and they are what I call geraniums. What’s the difference between pelargoniums and geraniums?
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I got confused when Jo spelled it with an e and thought maybe I’d got it wrong! Pelargonium is the correct botanical name for the plants, which for some reason people have called geraniums over the years and some nurseries still label them as such (which annoys me) – real geraniums are the hardy ones that thrive outdoors all year round. Pelargoniums are from South Africa.
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That’s okay. Like I said to Jo some people call me Cheryl so at least you have the right name. 😀
I’m guessing then that the ones in my garden are geraniums. They are always in flower and don’t need much water.
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Blue? Purple? The most common colours.
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I have a deep red and a lipstick pink.
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https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/macro-monday-31/
there are a few more linked at the bottom, I don’t know of any red ones, but there might be!
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Ha! I could see where that was leading, Carol 🙂 🙂 Truro looks very pleasant.
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Unfortunately, our garden isn’t quite as beautiful. We need some good solid rain. Mr ET’s cosmos and gladioli are looking great though. We liked Truro and would definitely go there again.
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The forecast here is dire for Christmas. Treasure your summer 🙂
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I’m enjoying it! 😎🌞
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A lovely post!
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Thank you, Sophie. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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These colorful flowers bring promise for spring planting. Thanks for brightening my day.
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They are very inspiring, aren’t they!
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WOW… so many blooms. It’s beautiful place.
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It would be even more beautiful in mid-summer I think.
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must be…
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Yup, thats what I’m talking about! So pretty! So cornish!
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Isn’t it pretty. I would like to spend more time in Truro.
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A place I have actually been to! I don’t remember the floral displays, althought they should have been there as it was July when I was there with my mum for a brief visit a few years ago. What I mainly remember about Truro is that it was the first place where I saw ‘yarn bombing’ – on some of the posts in the main shopping area.
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I didn’t see any yarn bombing – I would have remembered that. Truro is such a pretty place.
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Thinking back, it was probably 5 years ago that I was there, so maybe the yarn wasn’t sturdy enough to last that long and no one has replaced it. Or maybe it was banned!
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Yarn bombing is very popular these days. I suppose it doesn’t last forever though. A town near to us even has a winter festival every year which includes dressing the trees in the main street in gorgeous yarn creations.
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Did you post photos of that town a while back? A memory is stirring in the far reaches of my mind…
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No, not that town. I did have a photo of a decorated tree at Queen Mary Falls though.
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