Autumn Wildflowers or a Claude Monet Painting In Motion?

Video: One of the most extraordinary new wildflower meadows begs some artistic questions.

Oct 13, 2023

Recently we visited one of the most beautiful new wildflower meadows at Aune Valley just a few miles from some of LettsSafari’s safari parks in southwest England. The video above captures it - and it inspired us to get out there and photograph wildflowers in the Autumn - at our safari parks and gardens and in other places. After all it has been a very warm Autumn!

There’s something about the moody Autumn light illuminating wildflower - living and dead. Stems and heads become miniature natural sculptures.

End of season husks yield next years growth

Indeed, wildflowers this time of year yield to a natural artistic feel. Providing an uplifting follow-on from summer.

Aune Valley’s meadow is almost like a Claude Monet painting from the wild pastures that surrounded Giverny.

And this was photographed in late September!

Other wildflower meadows are more like a Van Gogh vase?

yellow flowers under sunny sky — A Van Gogh arrangement?

But then the Robert Marshall MRSS installation at LettsSafari’s Exeter Capability Brown gardens are a current tribute to the magic and beauty of wild flowers.

Robert Marshall’s flowers stand over 2 metres tall. A monument to nature.

A part of Marshall’s 100 smaller flowers installation - metal with treated paint pot lids.

In our rewilded safari parks rods of foxglove attract the later pollinators still buzzing about at LettsSafari.

Mind you a picture can tell a thousand words. Thank you Van Gogh (in real life)!

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