Blue and yellow

Macro Photography

A pretty little blue and yellow flower – it’s dying a bit but it’s still pretty

© Aisling Jennings Photography

Yellow

Yellow in June with black and white grass

Yellow buttercups in June

© Aisling Jennings Photography

Dandelions

Dandelions – black and white

Dandelions – The dandelion is a perennial, herbaceous plant with long, lance-shaped leaves. They’re so deeply toothed, they gave the plant its name in Old French: Dent-de-lion means lion’s tooth in Old French.

They grow individually on hollow flower stalks 2 to 18″ tall. Each yellow flower head consists of hundreds of tiny ray flowers. Unlike other composites, there are no disk flowers.

The flower head can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight. Each seed has a tiny parachute, to spread far and wide in the wind.  The thick, brittle, beige, branching taproot grows up to 10″ long. All parts of this plant exude a white milky sap when broken.

Daisies

Daisies – taken in summer in a garden in Maynooth, Co. Kildare, and in Castlebar, Co. Mayo