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This month we will be looking for Purple. A secondary colour made from red and blue, though you can find many different shades of purple. Try to stay clear of violet though as that will be making its own appearance. Although found in nature in shades of crocuses, lilacs, and irises look for the bruised colours in a sunrise or sunset, an indigo sea, a full moon in an inky sky. The darkness of a red wine, a rich velvet curtain or a starling’s wing.
“Colours are the smiles of Nature.
When they are extremely smiling,
and break forth into other beauty besides,
they are her laughs;
as in the flowers.”~Leigh Hunt as Poet and Essayist (1889)
TRAVEL WORDS 
Glorious – and a favourite colour of my mother’s – and I love it too. Jakaranda!!! Oh to travel again and see them in their splendour! Glad to have you sharing them, and all your beauties, Jude https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/life-in-colour-purple/
Thank you A-C. Yes Jacaranda trees are very special. Apparently they grow in Portugal so not too far to travel, and I have seen them in Paris so I wonder why I haven’t seen any here!
There are so many fabulous purple flowers around. 🙂 You’ve got a wonderful selection here.
Yes, there are a lot and it is a colour I love in the garden.
What a gorgeous purple gallery you have to start out this month with. 😀 😀
Here is my entry. Enjoy!
Enjoy I did! Lovely flowers Cee.
Here’s mine for today.
janet
Here’s my purple gallery! Some are arguably more “indigo” than purple (that fountain one, for example) https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/life-in-colour-may-challenge-purple/
That’s a lovely Jacaranda. I’ve seen some in the Himalayas, at least two kilometers above sea level. It should be able to stand the winter in parts of the UK, but maybe it requires extended warm periods to flower like that.
I have a touch of purple in a Bauhinia:
I suspect it is the summer heat that it needs, though you wouldn’t think there would be much difference between Paris and London.