My August 2016 In Pictures - Fruit & Flowers.

To see My August 2016 In Pictures - Fruit & Flowers, click on the link below:-

http://susanvale.tumblr.com/post/150029408662/my-august-2016-in-pictures-fruit-flowers

The picture at the top shows a Globe thistle (Echinops), at 15:54 on Monday 1st August 2016, at the University of Leicester Botanic Garden, Oadby, Leicestershire.

The picture at the bottom shows a Victorian earthenware apple, at home in Hythe, Hampshire, on Wednesday 31st August 2016 at 09:31. (The apple was made by Bretby Art Pottery, Woodville, Derbyshire, England, circa 1890.)

To read about Globe thistles (Echinops), click on the link below:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinops_sphaerocephalus

To read about the University of Leicester Botanic Garden, Glebe Road, Oadby, Leicestershire, click on the link below:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Leicester_Botanic_Garden

To read about the Victorian earthenware apple and Bretby Art Pottery, click on the links below:-

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O67037/apple-vase-tooth-henry/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretby_Art_Pottery