#Nigella

[crazy4asians]

Nigella

After almost 10 years of cooperation, she's still my muse.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 9 August 2024

This front garden has been seeded with an annual meadow mix of orange flowered Eschscholzia californica (California poppy) and Calendula officinalis (pot marigold, common marigold, ruddles, Mary's gold, Scotch marigold) which contrast with blue flowered Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist) and Borago officinalis (borage, starflower), and dotted with the pink blooms of Agrostemma githago (corn-cockle).

Jill Raggett

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[mrcokrft]

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

'Gellin' and Kvellin'

Watercolor on Black Paper

2023, 9"x 12"

Love In the Mist, Nigella

[higherentity]

[mothmiso]

Slovenia (2) (3) (4) (5) by Vida Ficko

Via Flickr:

(1) Beautiful landscape and Visoka peč in the background. (2) (3) Soča river, Bovec.     

[saltwaterandstars]

It's a chilly, rainy day here, but everything in the garden looks so fresh covered in raindrops

[faguscarolinensis]

Nigella damascena / Love-in-a-Mist at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

[bijoumikhawal]

how to make love in a mist (aka devil in the bush or nigella) fabric flowers

I have. An unfortunate passion for fabric flowers and not much money or experience making them. I could not find a tutorial for these, so I juryrigged something and figured I should share

Materials:

1/2 inch wide blue satin ribbon, double faced highly preferred

A flame (a lighter or candle works, I prefer a candle because I can just light it and be done with it)

Wire, about 18 gauge but honestly you don't need to be specific about it, anything between 16 and 20 should work fine

Sheet foam

Hot glue

Green paint

Paintbrush

A bamboo skewer or other stick

Black fringe, 1 cm wide or just cut it shorter. A dark green fringe would also work well.

Instructions:

Cut your blue ribbon into 9-10cm long strips. You should use about 8-10 of these per flower

Cut an inverted v into both ends and seal with heat.

Cut a 2cm wide strip of foam. Roll it to form a small spiral and cut- you want a little more overlap than a tube, but not much.

Cut 3 small pieces of wire per flower, about 6-4 cm long, and fold loosely in half. Insert them through the foam, close to one end. Bend the pieces to form a bit of a spiral shape. Clip wires shorter as needed. You can tie the other end of the foam with thread if it tries to unfurl.

secure the wire and foam with hot glue. Cover the foam evenly with a first layer of glue, then let harden. Add more hot glue near the unwired end to for a tear drop like shape, imitating the center capsule of the love in a mist flower. In all honestly you could skip some of this, just use glue as reinforcement, and paint the foam directly. Initially I was going to, but I decided to try this.

Make 3 cm long wires with a loop on each end. Glue one end inside the bottom of the foam tube.

Once hardened, paint the capsules green all over and let dry. Use the bottom wire to hold without getting paint all over yourself, and using the loop, string onto a thin stick and balance it between two items so the capsules can dry freely (for example, I balanced mine on the inside of a lampshade)

Once mostly dry, glue the fringe around the bottom of the capsule.

Fold the petals in half at an angle, with a bit of glue in the fold, and then glue the petals to the bottom of the capsule

If you only have single face (instead of both sides being shiny, one is dull) twist the fabric so one side has two shiny petals and one side has two dull petals before you fold and glue them.

[happy-mountain-goats]

I need everyone to appreciate my mom's garden

[stephjacq]

Gilia, nigella, cornflower, lavender.

Gilia and nigella are self sown from a few years ago, and the cornflower I helped get over here from the other side of the garden. The lavenders are babies from the first plant we got when we moved here.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Some flowers simply demand to be studied in close-up, and nigella – or love-in-a-mist – is one of them. Molly has done an outstanding job of drawing our attention to the tutu-like shape of the petals and stamen, and has chosen just the right angle to frame it with the delicate green bracts.

Photographer: Molly Hollman

[llovelyclouds]

notes on nigella shodash

here's everything i thought seemed relevant about nigella during my tlt reread!

(you can find the rest of the posts from this project here!)

NIGELLA SHODASH

titles:

Cassiopeia's cavalier, (??) gen, founded the sixth (?)

eats like a child, according to Mercy (htn. pg. 130) 

notes:

This note (found in River Bubble Canaan House) also refers to Mercy as M and Nigella as Nigella.. curious… 

“Mercymorn said peevishly: ‘I always thought Nigella was prettier’ and both men assured her, ‘You’re not wrong,’ ‘Good choice, et cetera,’ until Augustine said gloomily: ‘Try getting a look-in with Cassy around, though.’” (htn. Pg. 279)

"C- was panicking because with the project over she was getting recalled to England and didn't want to go, she'd got N- and didn't want to leave her, refused to admit they were dating even though we all knew." - John 5:20 (ntn. pg. 73)

"C-'s N-, she was on board. C- was still pretending they weren't dating- she was an artist, so that was cool." (ntn. pg. 128)

"Back at home I told them, they want to call us a cult, let's be a cult. It only takes a little bit of eyeliner and a couple capes. N- already had eyeliner and capes." (ntn. pg. 282)

“C- admitting out of nowhere she’s dating N-. All of us like, What? We've known for a year? Go ahead and get married already, we've got a nun. N- was all, That’s not legal. C- of all people said, Who cares. That’s how bad it was. [...] C- and N- got married right over there, you can’t see it now ‘cause of the rubbish. I made flowers grow for them out of the garden, but they came out… weird. Some of the roses had teeth. C- and N- thought that was hilarious. [...] The dome meant we hadn’t had full sunlight in a while. It was beautiful anyway. I cried the whole service. I couldn't remember the last time I’d eaten food.” (ntn. pg. 400)

“N- was all, It’s not going to work. This is going to end with the ships launching and G- getting shot, and you're going to kill millions of people for nothing, We followed you to save the world. I said, We’re doing that. This is how we save the world. Believe me. C- said, John, your problem is that you care less about being a saviour than you do about meting out punishment. I said, C-, I was just your best man! C- said, You still are. That doesn’t change the fact that you can be quite the most appallingly vindictive person I have ever met.” (ntn. pg. 401)

“They’d shot C- first… and right in front of my eyes they shot N-. Bubble wrap. I don’t know what happened to them..” (ntn. Pg. 406)

[mrcokrft]

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Dreams In the Mist

Watercolor on Black Paper

2023, 9"x 12"

Love In the Mist, Nigella