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Whether it's the showy blooms of hydrangeas, hot flashes of crocosmia, or the precisely formed petals of dahlias,

there's still a huge range of flowers to enjoy throughout this late summer period from August into the autumn.

At the moment, I'm mesmerised by globe thistles, Echinops Ritro, in gardens and sometimes growing wild as well.

They have these amazing, like steely blue balls of flower that are just buzzing with bumblebees,

along with the perennial sunflowers as well on my allotment, something that I've grown for the pollinators,

and they give you that real vibrancy, just as other stuff starts to fade.

But when was the last time that you really took an up-close and personal look at your flowers to understand what they're all about?

The ovary that is often, if you were to cut it open, it's made of little chambers, and these are called carples.

So carpels is another word you might hear.

Okay.

And if you think of an orange,

those are all the carpels, the chambers of the ovary. So it's a funny thought when you sink your teeth into an orange that you're eating a ripe ovary. I mean, that will now be all I think of.

If you get confused between your sepals and your stigmas, or you want to better

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