The Woodland Garden (Tuesday 31st May 2022)

One of the first trees I planted in the Woodland Garden was a cotinus sapling that I had bought at Bowood Garden Centre (that doesn't exist anymore). It remains a big favourite and is a variety of Cotinus coggygria, called Royal Purple. The tree has existed since the early Pliocene epoch.
It has grown so substantially that it forms a canopy over the glass table on the patio so that I no longer have to put up a parasol there.
I normally blip it as soon as it comes into leaf but had been waiting for the light to be right, and now already it has flowered, revealing why it is also called Smoke Tree when seen en masse.

L.
Friday 3.6.2022 (1820 hr)

Blip #3675 (#3425 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #010
Blips/Extras In 2022 #113/265 + #044/100 Extras
Day #4451 (1031 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2818 (#2658 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Flora series
Woodland Garden
Cotinus series
Trees series

Woodland Garden (May 2022) (Flickr album)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (White) and Pentax D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR prime lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Johnny Jones And The King Casuals - Purple Haze (1968)
Jimi Hendrix formed the King Kasuals in Nashville TN in 1962, and for a while they were the house band on the Night Train TV show, but when he left his place was taken over Johnny Jones. They never performed Purple Haze during his tenure because he didn't write the song until Christmas 1966, but they recorded the song for a single in 1968 that was produced by Stax recording artist William Bell. During the Northern Soul boom it was a regular play at the Torch in Stoke-on-Trent, Wigan Casino, in Cleethorpes and doubtless elsewhere.