Anemones

Thinking about anemones, which to me back in the day, were always the funny little things that you find in rock pools at the beach. These strange oddities have a ring of tentacles and if you feed them, as we used to do, with a morsel extracted from a ‘cats eye’ rock snail, the tentacles would swiftly close in around the treat!

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Here’s a rock pool from a beach near Brighton, Dunedin. This is just a pretty (anemone-less) pic for my lead photo; anemones are found in the smaller rock pools. The rock pool photos were taken on 25 October 2020.

In this photo of a much smaller rock pool, the anemones are clearly seen.

Larger context …

In contrast, here’s autumn anemone flowers taken at Maple Glen garden on 04 April 2021. The so-called Japanese anemone flowers. Cropped from a photo I’d already shared in White In Autumn.

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You may well ask … what prompted my thoughts about anemones to begin with?

This wonderful post by Linda Leinen (Link 1). Fascinating photos of anemones found in Texas USA.

Link 1: Anemones Again. ~the comments are also an interesting read!

Link 2: Anemone berlandieri ~another post of Linda’s.

[later update] Link 3: All About Anemones ~web page link Linda gave me.

You’ll find fantastic photos of anemones like the one I showed above at Ann Mackay’s fabulous blog (UK).

This post on Japanese anemones ~and I love this recent one on Anemone blanda (which isn’t at all bland but blue!)

NB: both of these blogs have search boxes if you look for them. Just put the word ‘anemone’ in and you may find more posts to look at.

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Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2021)