Two Forms

[Rob MacKillop]

Form I by RobMacKillop, on Flickr



Form II by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

DP3M
SPP​

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Courgettes, I'm told...

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Looks like onion seed heads, or at least the Allium family to me, but then you took them therefore must know.
Excellent images both of them.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I've no idea. A woman said, "Look at those courgettes!". Might well be onions. But they are about five-feet tall.

I used the grain in SPP. I quite like it.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I've no idea. A woman said, "Look at those courgettes!". Might well be onions. But they are about five-feet tall.

I used the grain in SPP. I quite like it.

Courgettes are low growing, usually yellow flower that bud close to the the crown. Often used themselves as a creation in a dish as they will last a while as the small courgettes grow and picked with the flower still attached and used that way in Posh restaurants . Courgettes are of the marrow family, simply picked earlier. Love picking them and straight into a pan .

 

[Tom Dunne]

I thought they were onions but five feet tall? Makes it easy to pick them I suppose. You composed the first one beautifully.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Cheers, Tom. Nice shapes to photograph.

 

[Dave Farnes]

At 5 feet tall it could be leek. One of my gardening customers left a few to flower this year, like little Alliums, they are very pretty flowers.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Another contender. Thanks, Dave.

 

[Pete Askew]

They look like onions to me too. Love the first. Nice framing.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Pete. I like a man who knows his onions...

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Returning to these odd things, this time with Rhona for height comparison. Turns out they are leeks of the Carentan variety, and they explode into amazing ball shapes:

Rhona and the Giant Leek by RobMacKillop, on Flickr



Giant Leek 2 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr



Giant Leek 1 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr



Leek Carentan by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

 

[Pete Askew]

First prize to @Dave Farnes then!

 

[Dave Farnes]

Well I do claim to be a professional gardener.

 

[Paul Lange]

I thought a leek was just a giant spring onion left over from the set of that Woody Allen film with the huge vegetables......

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Now, which Woody Allen film is that? I can see the scene in my mind, but...

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Sleeper...

 

[Pete Askew]

Sleeper.

 

[Pete Askew]

Damn. Beat me to it by a second!

 

[Rob MacKillop]