2007 plant portraits photographs by John Metcalf
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Geranium robertianum has found a niche halfway up a gum tree
Pennisetum macrourum against early morning light

Red Admiral butterfly enjoying eupatorium flowers

Romneya coulteri

Single white hollyhock

Panicum virgatum 'Warrior' flower heads

Rose 'Rhapsody in Blue'

Phlox paniculata 'Drama Queen' still looking good in September. New form raised by John Metcalf

Miscanthus sinesis flower heads looking like bronze wire in evening light

Aster pyrenaeus'Letitia'

Apples

Sedum spectabile 'Herbstfreude'

Eupatorium purpureum 'Atropurpureum'

Kalimeris incisa ‘Blue Star’ and Elymus magellanicus

Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Album’ and Pennisetum orientale ‘Tall Tails’

Pennisetum orientale ‘Tall Tails' and Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Light’

Phlox paniculata 'Eva Cullum' and Nicotiana sylvestris

Phlox paniculata ‘Eva Cullum’ and Kniphofia ‘Amsterdam’

Euphorbia dulcis ‘Chameleon’ and Alchemilla mollis

Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ and Pennisetum orientale ‘Tall Tails’

Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and Pennisetum orientale ‘Tall Tails’

Anemone hybrida pale pink and Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Album’

Persicaria amplexicaule 'Summer Dance' and Miscanthus s. 'Variegatus'

Solidago 'Early Bird' with Heliopsis helianthoides 'Asahi'

