Three Purple Flowers- Leech Botanical Garden
by Rick Bures
Title
Three Purple Flowers- Leech Botanical Garden
Artist
Rick Bures
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Three Purple Flowers- Leach Botanical Garden.Photographed at the Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, Oregon. In this striking horizontal composition, three hanging purple bell-shaped flowers march across the scene in single file, the closest dominating the left of the frame and showing a great deal of detail, the middle flower in the middle of the frame but already well out of focus, and the last at the right of the frame and so out of focus as to only be recognizable in the company of its companions in the procession. The deep purples of the fully lit flowers contrast against the greens of the wall of foliage in the background, which is well out of focus, helping to more greatly highlight the true subjects of the image. The tips of the petals of the flowers are frosted in white, adding further definition. The Leach Botanical Garden is located in southeast Portland, Oregon. It was built upon the 1930’s Manor House and gardens established by John and Lilla Leach, who went on expeditions collecting botanical specimens. The gardens contain over 2000 species of plants, ranging over many acres of steep hillsides and around stream beds. Flowers are used by plants for sexual reproduction. They contain the plant’s reproductive organs. The female organs are in the pistil, which is often a single center stalk within the blossom. The pistil is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. The male reproductive organs are in the stamen. Often there are many stamens, each a filament with a bulb (anther) on the end, surrounding the pistil. On the anthers you find the pollen granules, each granule containing the plant’s sperm. The purpose bright colors and scents and nectar of the flower is to attract animals like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, so that the pollen can be transferred from the stamen to the pistil, or to the pistils of other flowers (even on other plants of the same species). In this way the ovum are fertilized and the plant’s fruit develops, co
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July 10th, 2017
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