Sunday 28 August 2022

Coastal Flowers

 

1999: Coastal Flowers (Design - Wayne Rankin; Cover Design - Melinda Coombs)
 

A day for the seaside here, warm with blue skies but I travel by stamps to the sandy coasts of Australia where flowers play a role in the forming and stabilising the dunes while looking beautiful.

The flowers are clockwise - Fuchsia;  the yellow trailing Guinea flower; Australian Bluebells which occur throughout southeastern Australia and Beach Morning Glory.

2021: The Calf of Man - 70th Anniversary of the Manx National Trust

One of a set of stamps celebrating the Calf of Man, a small island just off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man, a nature reserve and bird observatory, the flower they chose for the stamp set was Thrift or Sea Pink, a familiar plant of wild coasts, although people grow it in their gardens too, a very accommodating plant. 

1997: 19th Century Flower Paintings
 

Some more garden flowers captured in art - Blue Gentian

This painting is of a flower grown from a Brazilian bulb in a London hot house - Hippeastrum rutilum, one of the many species of Amaryllis from South America.

Fuchsia and a tulip

Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Flowers - in boom at See It On A Postcard


2 comments:

violet s said...

I'm happy to see a frilled tulip (a favourite of mine)
The Australian set - and the cancel - is really pretty.

Mail Adventures said...

All these stamps are really nice, and I can say I have been lucky enough to get some of them.

NOt the Isle of Man stamps. Neither I have seen the Thrift or Sea Pink in person, I think.