One of my favourite flowers, Scabiosa caucasica, has started blooming in the garden. Between the Pinks (Dianthus superbus) mentioned in an earlier post and Scabiosa, I’m in heaven. Life is good. All Scabiosa flowers intrigue me along with related ones, such as Knautia macedonica. These flowers are commonly called Pincushion flowers. Like the people who…

With the wind whistling through the trees tonight, I spent some time looking through my photographs from this past summer. I came across this picture of Scabiosa caucasica – one of my all-time favourite flowers.It’s hard to believe that it is already November. When I took the dog outside last tonight, I heard the sound…