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Meyer's lemon and Pelargonium ardens
Any decent photographer should be able to do this, but I can't take a good picture of my heart-stopper du jour. It's a two plant combo, and it just has too many qualities in contrast for me and my camera. The wonderfully lanky Pelargonium ardens (and 'burning' is the only word to describe its shade of red) is weaving its way up through a Meyer's lemon tree at the ecstatic moment when the white flowers and the pale ripening lemons emerge together on a background of glinting green leaves.
It's the glint that baffles the camera. One leaf is deep green, the next almost white with reflected light; lemon leaves face in all directions, with deep shady spaces in between.
The eye interprets the leaf/flower/fruit jumble in all its dimensions. Sorry, but my camera can't.
As a tree, by the way, tiny though it is, Meyer's lemon could well be my Tree of the Month, too.
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