Plants have an impressive array of protective textures: spiny, crinkled, smooth, fleshy, hairy.
Via this week’s WPC: Textures
Textures
Nature on the Edge
Wildlife photography along the urban edge
Plants have an impressive array of protective textures: spiny, crinkled, smooth, fleshy, hairy.
Via this week’s WPC: Textures
Nature on the Edge 
and as your photos show, very beautiful 🙂
Quirky and bold too !
Marvelous photos, Liz!
Thanks Eliza 🙂
Lovely photographs!
Alison
Thanks Alison.
An interesting variety of plants.
Thanks Anne.
Such a good response to the “texture” challenge.
Beautiful, the big thorny plant is mysterious as well.
Isn’t it a wonder. Shot this in a friend’s garden which he has nurtured over many years. When they burst into bloom the flowers are look so delicate in contrast to the plant’s exterior thorniness.