Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) is a flower that looks like it came from outer space, with wild tendrils shooting out of its middle and green spikes surrounding it.
I was surprised this past weekend to see some of the plants putting out blossoms this early at a local garden that I like to visit. I had never seen Love-in-a-mist (I love saying the flower’s name) in its early stage of growth and really like the look of the bud in the last photo, surrounded by the soft green spikes, as the flower is at all stages of growth.
Before long, entire patches of this garden will be covered with this remarkable flower—we can always use more Love, whether it is in a mist or not.
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Mike Powell 
Certainly is an unusual flower but great pics Mike. 🙂
Thanks. It takes on an equally unusual look after it blooms and turns into a seed pod. (You can search in my blog for a photo of the seed pod or stay tuned for more photos in a few months)
Always tuned! 😀
Nice macros. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the name of this flower had inspired a lot of poetry.
Thanks. I may search around and see, but the name certainly has a romantic quality to it.
Never seen this before–what an unusual and beautiful flower. Love the composition of the photo!
I´ll stay with the word, Beautiful ! // Maria
Thanks. I am glad that you like it. Love-in-a-mist really is one of my favorites.
very unusual- and cool! This time of year everything is just blooming in fast forward- keep your cameras at the ready folks!
It is very amazing, great photo.