Golden Morning Light
by Lydia Holly
Title
Golden Morning Light
Artist
Lydia Holly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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This photograph was taken in early Autumn at Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, NC. I was able to arrive in mid morning when the lighting was beautiful and the air was crisp. This beautiful flower is known as " First Light."
First Light is a perennial sunflower cultivar that produces a clump of foliage to 44 tall. Foliage is covered in fall (SeptemberOctober) with a profuse bloom of 2.5-3 diameter sunflowers with golden yellow rays and brown center disks. Narrow, hairy, linear leaves (to 4 long). Parents of this patented cultivar are unpatented H. salicifolia (willow-leaved sunflower) cultivars Golden Pyramid and Autumn Glory. An introduction of Blooms of Bressingham who have given it the common name of willow-leaved sunflower. U. S. Plant Patent #13,150 issued October 29, 2002. Source: Missouri Botanical Garden Website
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October 3rd, 2014
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