Peaceful Beauty
by Bruce Bley
Title
Peaceful Beauty
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This is a photograph of two blue water lilies that I took in a small pond at the Chicago Botanical Gardens in Glencoe, Illinois. I enjoy close up photograph, hoping to catch the detail that one might miss and capture the play on light on the subject matter.
Purple Beauty Tropical water lily is a stunning purple star-shaped flowers
with yellow centers. It blooms from summer to winter. It has interesting round green folage with brown spotting. It is easy to care for; water lilies dislike moving water. It is annual in colder climates
Purple Beauty Tropical Water Lily features showy fragrant blue cup-shaped flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the stems from early summer to late fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's attractive glossy round leaves emerge burgundy in spring, turning dark green in color with distinctive brown spots the rest of the year. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
The Chicago Botanic Garden traces its origins back to the Chicago Horticultural Society, founded in 1890. With the motto Urbs in Horto, meaning "city in a garden," the Society hosted nationally recognized flower and horticultural shows, its third the World's Columbian Exposition Chrysanthemum Show, held in conjunction with the world's fair in October 1893.
After a period of inactivity, the Chicago Horticultural Society was restarted in 1943. In 1962, its modern history began when the Society agreed to help create and manage a new public garden. With the groundbreaking for the Chicago Botanic Garden in 1965 and its opening in 1972, the Society created a permanent site on which to carry out its mission. The Garden today is an example of a successful public-private partnership. It is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and operated by the Chicago Horticultural Society.
I hope you have enjoyed this photograph and will share it with others. You can see more of my work on my homepage and in the various galleries and groups that I am a member of. Your comments on my work are greatly appreciated. Thank you for visiting.
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July 30th, 2015
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Comments (13)
Bruce Bley
Kelly, Thank you again for the feature in the group "Flowers of the Tropics". I sincerely appreciate it and thank you for your support.
Bruce Bley
Doug, I am very grateful for the feature in the group "Lilies- Lotuses. Thank you for the honor.
Bruce Bley
James, I sincerely appreciate the feature in the group "Beauty". Thank you for the honor and all you do for our group.
Pamela Blizzard
Beautiful capture! l/f/t
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you so much for the nice comment and promotions, Pamela. I truly appreciate it.