Flower Photos

Found this unknown flower while visiting New Dehli (India)

 

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea ^
When I lived in southern California, these grew nicely on cement walls & along fences.
Very pretty.

 

Growing round the back of a cottage in Bognor Regis, England

 

I was moving pictures over to my 'new' gallery and came across this that has been sitting all lonely and forgotten on my site for several years now: (used to be the header image on my blog)
seeing those few specks of odd green near the top and middle almost bugs me now.

 

A neighbor's begonias. I love the colors.

 

Went to a local garden the other day -




this took a bit more work post processing for obvious reasons - I took this series of shots with this end goal in mind.

 

The Damask rose bush blooms and blooms until a hard freeze.
The scent is so lovely. I become dizzy from deep repeated inhalations.
Heady goodness.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_×_damascena

 

I would call this a happy accident when I consider it was taken with my G2 that does a lousy job with depth of focus on a good day, and less said the better other days.
From May 2004

 

My favorite flowers. Nothing happier than giant fields of sunflowers.....

 

great shot joe........the bench is nestled right in there.

 

Thanks bro. I was chilling on that bench for a bit until it became insane with bees. I'm thinking it's their fav flower too......

 

most years if i trim the orchid stem halfway back after its first bloomfest
it will send out a new stem with a handful of flowers.
this year it paused briefly and then zoom-more buds.
i think it's on its fourth wind. marathon orchid.

 

Hey, noodle - I like how you caught the detail and solidity of these flowers
I must get out and about with my camera this summer.

Meanwhile, I've been mostly tending my Bathroom Orchid ... so I see what you've done, ring, and that's lovely ... the way your light is coming through the petals - those orchids are magical.

Mine, too, has been insisting on flowering and re-flowering, with nothing except a little cutting back of the stem. I am getting a bit worried, because it has been growing so many pairs of leaves that it has nearly been falling out of the pot and I had to re-pot it, but it was still riding very high ... I fear it might have gone beyond its limits. Lower leaves are going brown. I'll post a picture of it soon ... one I took last week just as one of the flowers was beginning to breathe its last. I hope it will stay strong for years to come, but maybe it has had its time.

Your butterfly-syle stem-catcher looks a lot better than my utilitarian ones

Ah ... I found it:


You can see how the leaves were beginning to wilt, and even the healthy ones are less smooth than I reckon they should be ... they've got deepish ridges, a bit like fingernails when we're not well. FWIW, it does not live balanced on the jaws of a Dremel Multivice. And I did this picture on time-delay, so I could run behind the flower with the blue sheet!

Take care

 

nice time o year to be firing up the flower thread.
here's some pin-hole tulips........

 

^the towering tulips^ ♫♪



garden-variety

 

Wow ... very nice. It took me a few moments to realise the mirroring. Very effective


My orchid ... it's looking very different. Flowers are all gone, now, and the lower leaves went all dried up and died. Today, I repotted in in a huge pot, after having snipped some of the dead or rotted roots, and trimming th edead leaves off. I hope I know what I was doing. It's looking more secure, now, but only time will tell if I've helped or harmed it.

 

trip down flower lane....