This flower, very special for color and form, is called “Tradescantia” a genus of 75 species of herbaceous perennial plants. Native to the New World they were introduced into Europe as ornamental plants in the seventeenth century.Very easy to grow in Italy is also known as “grass misery.” Very simple but very special!Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved
Source: Blue Flowes
This is my blue. Blue was a favourite colour of the impressionist painters, who used it not just to depict nature but to create moods, feelings and atmospheres.In Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, the blue irises are placed against their complementary colour, yellow-orange.Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “‘Cobalt [blue] is a divine colour and there is nothing so beautiful for putting atmosphere around things .(Source Wikipedia)Iris photographed in Florence during the exhibition of Iris. . ..Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
Source: Blue
This is my blue. Blue was a favourite colour of the impressionist painters, who used it not just to depict nature but to create moods, feelings and atmospheres.In Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, the blue irises are placed against their complementary colour, yellow-orange.Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “‘Cobalt [blue] is a divine colour and there is nothing so beautiful for putting atmosphere around things .(Source Wikipedia)Iris photographed in Florence during the exhibition of Iris. . ..Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
Source: Blue
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