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Eliza Waters 
Fascinating flower I have never hear of!
Thank you, Cindy. Its common name sums it up well: Love-in-a-mist. 🙂
heard of….
Stunning against the dark background. Must be a favorite of yours. Looks like swan feathers.
Thank you, Alice. I do love its feathery bracts, great as a cut flower and the seed heads are pretty cool, too. Best of all, it self-sows! 🙂
Oh Eliza, this is gorgeous.
Thank you, Alys! 🙂
Beautiful
Thank you, Sheree!
Pleasure as always Eliza
A beautiful composition of different shapes and shades.
Thank you, Anne!
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This is uniquely splendid! Nature totally rocks. Thanks for sharing Eliza.
Thanks, Dawn! Nature does amaze, doesn’t she?
She sure does. Every time you think you’ve seen the best there’s something else around the “surprise” corner —the smallest frog or feather like flowers. Awesome God!!!
… and she looks like feathers // nature mimicking each other
🙂 Happy to have it gracing my garden beds (and arrangements). ❤
💗💕💗
Exquisite! So many delicate details with a perfect hint of purple…
Thank you, Barbara. It is a beautiful annual that self-sows readily, so I have a steady supply for most of the summer. 🙂
A friend has pink, blue, and white in her garden. I love the seed heads as much as the flowers.
For some reason, blue do not self-sow for me, but pink and white do. I dry the seed heads for dried arrangements to enjoy in winter.
So pretty! The leaves remind me of spider webs.
Thank you, Ellen. It a beautiful and unusual annual. Best of all, it self-sows!
What a picture! It looks as though that flower is balanced on a web of green.
Thank you, Laurie! It is a delightful annual and its common name sums it up well: Love-in-a-mist. 🙂
Yes!
🤩🙌🏼🤩💖
Thank you, Susan! 🙂
Beautiful shot of a wonderful flower with multiple uses!
Thank you, Hien!
Lovely capture Eliza 💐
Thank you, Val! ❤
So pretty!!!!
Thank you!
This is a new one for me. Love the way it looks.
Thank you, Sandy. It is a summer favorite here. 🙂
Thanks Eliza. I do not get a chance to see this flower enough.
Thank you, John. It self sows readily and comes up reliably every year. A happy thing!
Theoretically yes. Here not so much. Will just have to keep enjoying it this way. So THANKS !!!
My pleasure, John!
I immediately thought of the TV cook. 🙂 I read that the seeds are useful in cooking with notable flavors. But they are more useful creating additional beautiful flowers as your image proves. 🙂
Thanks, Steve. I’ve never experimented with eating them, but love their flowers and seed heads. 🙂
I don’t guess I’ve ever seen this one before — it’s stunning! Thanks, Eliza, for introducing me to so many beautiful flowers.
Thank you, Debbie. It is a pleasure to share!
We sow them in the fall here. I always plant blue and maybe that is why it never reseeds. Do you have deer?
Yeah, not sure what’s up with the blue not self-sowing. I thought it might be cold sensitive, whereas pink and white might be tougher? I guess I’d have to collect and overwinter blues inside to see. Yes, we have voracious deer, but knock wood, so far they’ve left the nigella alone. They favor my hosta, and sadly, of late, chelone and blue lobelia that were all set to bloom. Grrrr.
Such wonderful looking flowers
Thank you, Karina!
Thats the most interesting flower i have ever seen Eliza. Pretty cool.
Thank you, Alison!
Very nice, Eliza! A new flower to me.
Thank you, Belinda. It’s a favorite of mine and super-easy to grow. 🙂
So very pretty Eliza! I do not know if I’ve seen this flower before.
Thank you, Maria. It grows well here, always self-sowing the following spring. All I have to do is thin them to about 10-12″ apart. Easy, free flowers! 🙂
Beautiful – and blooming on a completely different schedule than mine. Did the seeds I sent you germinate? Mine took a long time to get around to blooming this spring.
Thanks, Kris. Yes, I got maybe half a dozen plants and interestingly, a few must have crossed with something else as they had small yellow-green tiny petals. Hmmm, I wonder about the parentage? Every time I look at patch, I think of you and how neat it is to share something from our gardens across the miles. I’ve cut a few for bouquets and the plants are forming those cool seed heads, so I’m hoping for seeds for next year. I only got one Itsy-Bitsy, but I probably should have started them early inside as I doubt it has time left to bloom. Live and learn!
Nigella orientalis ‘Transformer’ has yellow and green flowers and was growing in the same raised planter so perhaps the 2 species crossed, or you got wayward seeds from ‘Transformer’. ‘Transformer’ blooms on a different schedule here but I noticed I had some pop up this year too. If you can keep the one ‘Itsy Bitsy’ alive, that may be all you need. The plant I harvested the seed from is a bonafide shrub once it gains strength.
I’m not sure what adjective I should use, but stunning seems to work.
🙂 Thanks, Judy!
Exquisite. that’s the word I came around to! love the tracery and green brush strokes. I don’t think I’ve tried hard enough getting these to grow here, next spring I’ll remedy that!
Thanks, Frank. It really is a gorgeous flower individually as well as a frothy mix en masse. I often cut a few to put in a vase to enjoy close up. The seed heads are pretty cool, too.
What a glorious plant portrait.
Thank you, Susan!
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🙂 Many thanks!
I can see it’s already been said but…..my first look at your photo, I immediately thought how exquisite! ❤️ Fabulous capture, Eliza!!
Thank you, Donna! It is a lovely one, for sure. 🙂
Amazing 🤩
Thank you, Karen! 🙂
As there are men named Nigel, I wonder if there are women named Nigella.
Yes, Nigella is a woman’s name. Nigella Lawson is a famous cook. Curiously enough, her father’s name is Nigel. 🙂
Methinks that was no accident.
Nigella Lawson https://g.co/kgs/LuVZAA
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Yes, indeed! Nature is a master, just like with your Cereus.
This plant makes me joyous.
Very pretty! 🙂
Thank you, Adele, it’s such a unique flower. Reminds me of those starched lace Elizabethan collars. 🙂
Very fine and delicate. Love that the white petals have the green leafy extensions
Thank you, Allison. It is a fine work of nature’s art!
So pretty!
Thank you, Rupali!
Wonderful capture of the delicate details. 😊👏
Thank you, Pepper!
Forgot about nigella! So beautiful! 🪴
Thank you, Bela! x
What a pretty subject … the petals and foliage seem to match. Nice shot Eliza!
Thank you, Denise. Such an unusual flower…I love that it self sows so I always a new crop every year.
How lovely that the leaves and different parts of the flower complement each other so well.
Thank you, Carol. It a pretty, lacy flower, an annual favorite of mine.
Such a beautiful flower and leaves, Eliza. New one to me! 🙂
Thank you, Jane. It is a lacy wonder, for sure.
The white elements look like feathers.
Yes, a lovely flower for sure.