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Slightly accidental front garden

Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
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Hello all, I thought I would post a picture of my front garden--I'm very pleased with it this season. The Welsh poppies are self-seeded; the Allium x hollandicum 'Purple Sensation' were originally about ten bulbs, but their seedlings have finally reached flowering size and liked last year's heatwave. In among them I have Brunnera 'Jack Frost', still in flower, and Geranium phaeum 'Waterer's Blue'. I can't claim responsibility for the effect as the Welsh poppies don't usually flower at the same time as the Alliums, but it's a happy accident...

Sorry that, as ever, on a Mac it isn't possible to rotate images on this site.

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  • YessicaHaircutYessicaHaircut Posts: 164
    So pretty!
    Sussex coast
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    Lovely @Cambridgerose12 really like the colour combination of your planting, blue and yellow always works, but the inclusion of the purple gives some great depth.
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    @Cambridgerose12 On a mac, open the image in Preview, and in the top row of icons, the second icon from the Search field, click on the Rotate Left (repeat until you have the right orientation), and go to File - Save.
    This will also keep the orientation.
    I don't have a picture with EXIF orientation fixed to run a test.

    I ♥ my garden.

  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
    edited May 2023
    @Simone_in_Wiltshire thank you—I do know how to rotate and save the image in Preview, but whenever I upload it onto this site, it is rotated to the wrong orientation in the upload process. I.e. a photo that’s the right way up for me is turned round when I upload it. Perhaps I should try rotating it to the ‘wrong’ orientation first and then uploading!

    NB: this is the only website where this happens, so a setting must be wrong somewhere…
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    Not colours that I choose, but I seem to end up with several yellow on purple combinations during the seasons.  Welsh poppy next to chive is one, not too dissimilar to yours. Good taste can recognised, and arrive quite randomly.

    BTW, I get two hues of welsh poppies, the yellow and an orange.  I rogue the oranges so that most now come up yellow.  Although it is in my opinion a very good mid orange.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you can reduce the size of the pix @Cambridgerose12, that helps. I make mine all around 1MB or less. I do it using the pixel method which is easier. You should have an edit function somewhere on your device, although I don't know how it works if it's a phone. 
    Lovely accident as you say. Most of my Welsh poppies are orange, which also works really well with purple. One of my favourite combinations in the garden   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have found from certain photos on here that it is only portrait that turns.  Landscapes don’t.
    My photos are 6mb and landscape’s are fine.

    I think portrait is just the natural way you would hold a phone to take a photo though. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    @Cambridgerose12 that’s what I couldn’t test on my mac as I have no camera picture. The rotation is in the EXIF data that a camera manufacturer (phone or digital camera) adds and it would require an editing of the image to change that. Preview doesn’t overwrite the EXIF date. 

    I ♥ my garden.

  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    A beautiful combination of plants @Cambridgerose12. The purple and yellow are complimentary colours which is why they look so gorgeous together. 
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