Sweet William

[dolina]

Sweet Williams by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr

Sweet William grows in the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans, with a variety disjunct in northeastern China, Korea, and southeasternmost Russia. It grows to 13–92 cm tall (depending on the variety),[6] with green to glaucous blue-green tapered leaves 4–10 cm long and 1–2 cm broad. The flowers are produced in a dense cluster of up to 30 at the top of the stems (known as an umbel) and have a spicy, clove-like scent; each flower is 2–3 cm diameter with five petals with serrated edges; in wild plants the petals are red with a white base.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_barbatus

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/hjgc2AnoTPLbP3pY6

[David_MC]

Beautiful flowers. Nice work!

[HansE]

Bit difficult to show everything at once but can't see a flower properly but the plant is there.

[Isac]

very colourful flowers. I like the narrow DOF for effect. I'd like to see the flowers a little closer or even another close up shot so we could see the lovely detail in the flower.

[wigz]

Good colour and I like the way the flowers stand out against the soft foreground and background. It would be nice to see more detail of the flowers.