Denise Goldberg's blog

Sunday, September 03, 2017

simple beauty

As I wandered the gardens at Tower Hill last week I saw a bed of strawflowers. What an interesting flower! Although they appear to be dry (but colorful) flowers, they are very much alive.

The flowers are in the same family as daisies and sunflowers, Asteraceae. The petals of these flowers are stiff and paperlike; those that I saw wore bright colors.

strawflower