Pictures of Flowers

I thought we had a thread with this title... however, I'm insane.

Share yours.


^ I know it is all out of focus and not very good... but I like it. So, neyah...

Regardless, can you give us names? I regonise Orchid & Sunflower, but if these are yours I'd like to know more.

I don't know the names, some were here when I got here... some were from travels.

These are not my flowers. I do not have flowers. I have some attractive, but unintentional moss on the back porch. The shade and soil composition resulting from the cedar tree kills pretty much everything else.





I really like this one because the colors look much more intense.


I'm a big fan of black eyed susans. This has nothing to do with the Preakness. They are just pretty.






This butterfly was busy getting drunk on nectar.


These are pink. The flower in the top of the frame is clearly happy to see me.


This is one of those "snowball bushes." They probably have a real name, but I've never called them anythying different.

Rose

Trumpet Vine

Peonies


Hydrangea

Camelia

Wonderful. Where did you take the photos? In a park?

Taken at French Creek State Park

Billy wrote:

Wonderful. Where did you take the photos? In a park?

Mine were taken at other people's houses.

Bird of Paradise


Plumeria

Walking stick I made in some bougainvillea

A lot of them are in my parents yard across the street.

I'm firmly in the 'less is more' school of photography.

Me likey, but I can't get down like that or have access to 20' flowers.

my favorite flowers

My flower photos were all taken in my yard, except for the Rose. The rose was at a friend's house.

Roses are beautiful, but thorny, and I dealt with enough pricks while dating to know I don't want them on my property.

This I found in crack in curb across street, went back for seeds was gone. Unknown, maybe rooster comb?

Yeah buster, looks like Cockscomb / Celosia.

Some onamental trees near my home on a drizzly night:






And some forsythia at night:



There's a nature trail across the street and behind the buildings.









And a columbine and a poppy from my Mom's garden:

That cactus flower is bad-ass.

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Canon powershot A510

my flowers again :)

Welcome! What a great way to join in. Nice pics, there, sg-double m

wolf, thanks!
On the first pic there is a chinies rose, wich blooming only one time per year.
and on the second it leaves.

Canon powershot A510 again

stereogramm wrote:

Canon powershot A510

I'm not too familiar with Canon cameras, but does yours have a manual focus?

Your pictures seem to focus on the background, which is a shame because the colours are stimulating, yet fuzzy.

Saw some great ones today, could not work the camera.

sproglet, yes I have manual focus, but not so often use it. Auto focus working fluently and manual I need only evenings.

the "cactus" is actually a succulent called "Stapelia Gigantea" - i have a few types - they smell like something DEAD , great pics to all.

I plant flowers every mother's day in pots along the railing of our deck. This is on of the lilly's (I think) from last year.

These guys are all over Taiwan. Really interesting ... (suddenly drawing a blank on what the middle things are called) ... uhh ... stigma?

stamen?

This is one of my favorite flower pics; I took it while driving into London on one of the M roads to the west. I think it's a field of rapeseed.

He said," Rape." In the south folks once planted rape along with mustard and turnips. I planted some once. Didn't do much for me. But then again, I wasn't making bio-diesel.

Taken this summer

I love this thread.

Bee on a thistle

baby thistle....i'm not good at knowing what settings are best viewed here.

Giant bee on a truffula tree.

Beautiful shot, Bruce. It looks like the lily is just floating there... It is also a very sharply defined photo, I like it.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Gloriosa Superba. :D

BobT wrote:

baby thistle....i'm not good at knowing what settings are best viewed here.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Used to be in vaudeville. ;)

If I pm you my e-mail can I have the jpegs so I can use these as wallpaper, pretty pweze!?

Is the last photo above (pink, green, red veins) of a Coleus leaf?

Orchids give me the sexorz... am I the only one?

if you mean they remind you of genitalia, i think that most would agree.

ginger and lotus.... delish

Thanks xoBruce. BEaUtIfUL!!!!

xoxoxoBruce;308229 wrote:

Ooooww, that felt good....maybe one more hit and then I'll swear off...I promise...I'll wear the patch...:blush:

May I have the second one, full sized? If so I'll pm you my laptop addy... that is where I would like it.
You are very talented.

xoxoxoBruce;312833 wrote:

Just 2 more and then I've got to show some restraint.. :rolleyes:

Why restraint?

OH MY!

These puffs aren't much to look at .. til you put your red/blue glasses on (red on the left). Shot by hand at the local community college, mixed in Gimp.

T - RRRIFFIC!!!! now i'm glad i kept my granddaugher's 3 - D glasses handy.

xoxoxoBruce;312830 wrote:

Talented? Did you miss the part about these flowers being in Bangkok?[/URL]:confused:

How am I supposed to know what you do with your free time?

I guess im spoiled cause my whole house is full of cheap but beautiful ones, but orchids are just... boring to me, really.

Really, really don't like orchids.

Bitman;312960 wrote:

These puffs aren't much to look at .. til you put your red/blue glasses on (red on the left). Shot by hand at the local community college, mixed in Gimp.

Very cool. I'm a big fan o' the 3D pics.

Happy Monkey;313222 wrote:

Very cool. I'm a big fan o' the 3D pics.

We used to have a 3D thread here somewhere. SteveDallas and I have dabbled in anaglyphs on and off.

My favorite is the one with the honey bee on the flower.

Where are you finding such spectacular photos?

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xoxoxoBruce;268025 wrote:

I wish I knew what kind of cactus it is, the tag in the pot is very wrong. :confused:

That is a Stapelia and I doubt very highly that it would get you laid. It stinks like a dead elephant on a hot afternoon.

totally didn;t see the mantis coming. now, that's BAD head.

Posys are nice...oh and cute mantis too.;)

Flowers of the backyard

Actually the first one was picked from the backyard



Green Kangaroo Paw


cap coming off of a Western Red Flowering Gum


Celocias up close


Red Kangaroo Paw


dew on Banksia leaf

diddi...those are AWSOME!!!!

My dad just bought the biggest fucking orchid you've EVER seen.

I'll be sure to get some pics before it dies.

Ibram;320527 wrote:

My dad just bought the biggest fucking orchid you've EVER seen.

I'll be sure to get some pics before it dies.

Love to see those pictures, Ibram, please.

A few flowers from sunny San Diego:

Aloe


Camellias?




Don't know

Hey Bullitt - I'm pretty sure those aren't roses - they appear to be camellias. :)

Very pretty pictures!! I won't be seeing any life in my garden for a few more months!

:D

Here is my submission to the tread:

And it's bluebonnet season right now! The time of year when (if it stops raining for 5 minutes) everyone in the city takes their kids out to take photos in the bluebonnets.

I went to the Cherry Blossoms yesterday.

Nice.

While you were there, I was at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens out past Tyson's Corners. Much less crowded, I'd imagine. The Cherry blossoms weren't really out there yet, but the forsythia were.

Have been out playing around with my camera. Caught this Hibiscus at the local Lowes on Sunday afternoon.

I moved to Virginia and thought I'd be able to avoid the snow in April. Damnit.

I got out late, so most of the snow had already gone, but I took a couple of 3D pics.

Thought I'd better take a shot of my Azalers before freeze tonight. Didn't know they were Rhododendron?

I had a chance to get out to Longwood Gardens this past weekend with my mom and sister-in-law. For anyone in the philly area - here's their site: http://www.longwoodgardens.org

It's really peak season there now AND they are featuring orchids until May 13. I was able to get a couple of nice pics in the conservatory and outside











This last one is a century plant - the name is a little misleading - it actually lives about 50 years and blooms only once then dies - This one just finished blooming.

Outside my apartment:

Some lilies of the valley we planted when we bought this place ten years ago are really starting to fill in.

Being from the south. A Magnolia. If this works, click on photo for a few more.

Sorry, it's a bit of a big one -

Wisteria

From my garden:

More:

Are these aphids? I found them on the plant withthe purple flowers when I was taking the above pictures last night. It doesn't seem to be affected, yet. Hmm. Grrr.

Yep, aphids. They will adversely affect the growth including deforming blossoms if not checked by something. A few aphids are okay, but they are getting out of control. If you want to be green, spray the undersides of the affected plants with hot pepper or garlic in solution with a little dish soap and lots of water. I'd cook up old cayenne, or hot sauce, or garlic with water and strain, then put in a pump sprayer.

Pretty gerbera and gaillardia, btw. I'm not sure what the lavender flowers are.

Put a couple of Ladybugs on the plant and watch them dine on the aphids. Real killers, they are.

My irises are blooming

Those are gorgeous jinx. I'll have to get some shots of the wildflowers around here once they get more in bloom.

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Lilacs

Elderberry

A recent favorite of mine.
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Some flower pictures from Alaska.

Absolutely beautiful guys and gals. Love them.

I was thinking of posting a couple here, but you guys are WAY too good.
Mine are nowhere near as sharp nor the colors as bright. Whaaaaaaahhhh!

So many gorgeous flowers in this thread, and more importantly gorgeous photos.
I can't single them out at this remove, without going back to posters not longer here. So I'll just say - wow.

I don't pretend any skill, but these have been family favourites as screensavers. We have our icons on the left hand side of the screen, so I tend to take that into consideration, in case you wonder why they're off centre.

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I hate you all now.
<sulks off>

I hate you too.
Wait, what?

Hate me least, at least.
I can't compare with them either.

If you don't hate me right this fucking minute, I swear to God...I'm gonna, um...do, [SIZE="2"]uh[/SIZE]...[SIZE="1"]something.[/SIZE]:unsure:

I hate you loooong time mr digrgrave.

Off center is better Sundae. Great pics.

Yep. Rule of Thirds.

One of my favorite flower photos. Although I confess to not having used the Rule of Thirds on this one. This one is actually going to be entered in the upcoming county fair's photography contest where I live. I'm entering five categories...one of them flowers.

dmg1969;743859 wrote:

One of my favorite flower photos. Although I confess to not having used the Rule of Thirds on this one. This one is actually going to be entered in the upcoming county fair's photography contest where I live. I'm entering five categories...one of them flowers.

glatts a good guy...
Nice pic dmg ...
I am now the proud owner of a sunflower ... it is about 2 feet tall. It was a gift from a nice ole lady that parks near my office.

Thanks Classic. This one was at my sister-in-law's house. I like how it looks like it's waving...:D

i took a few pics of our wave petunias

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Look how Dark they are

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Bullitt, you can't just throw pics like those up and not tell us what we're looking at. I really like the first and last pics in your post.

Zip and dmg, you also get a :thumb:.

Dogr - they are flowers ... jus sayin'

To be quite honest I know very little about types of flowers. I think the first is a lotus, and the last a hibiscus. Thanks

classicman;744096 wrote:

Dogr - they are flowers ... jus sayin'

Flowers?! Thanks for the heads up 'man, I was fixing to make love to that last one...:3_eyes:

lol - Sorry couldn't resist.

do Crate Mertals count ??

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No, because crepe myrtles are disgusting, horrible weeds.

Looks like the stuff out of which they make parade floats.

Bullitt;744102 wrote:

To be quite honest I know very little about types of flowers. I think the first is a lotus, and the last a hibiscus. Thanks

It's actually a water lily and not a lotus.

Clodfobble;745010 wrote:

No, because crepe myrtles are disgusting, horrible weeds.

Really? I think they're so pretty. :p:

They're pretty in someone else's yard, sure. It only gets unpleasant when the pink things are glued to your windshield like tissue paper, and your walkway is covered with those big seed casing things that manage to stab and roll under your feet at the same time...

Ahhh...they've always looked so pretty in someone else's yard for me. :D

Giant Hibiscus

Some other Hibiscus

Brown-Eyed Susan

Miniature Rose.

Minature-er rose.

Don't believe me: most of the tip of my left forefinger in the second shot for scale....

:eek:

yikes, sorry so big! Lemme try that again.
They are incredibly tiny, less than 1/2 an inch across, and pop up early in the spring in the grass.

They're called "flowers".

Looks like a tiny krokus. What do they look like closed?

@ZenGum...weisenheimer. I oughta pistil in your stamen!
@jimhelm, not sure. They are long gone and I don't recall seeing them closed.

jimhelm;747345 wrote:

Looks like a tiny krokus. What do they look like closed?

Sounds like them, too - out in the lawn.

Do the "leaves look like grass? If they do, they're crocus.

hm.. wrong number of petals for crocus, 5 vs 6. Whereabouts in the country does this five petaled flower flower?

Thanks to the Wildflower Identifier at: http://www.realtimerendering.com/flowers/flowers.html

I think it might be a Broad-leaved or Carolina Spring-beauty (Claytoniacaroliniana).

http://wildflowers.perverdonk.com/Spring%20Beauty/Broad-leaved%20Spring%20Beauty/200105061682%20Spring%20Beauty%20-%20Central%20Lake.jpg

BigV, we're in north central Ohio.
Rhianne, that's a great reference for wild flowers, Thanks!
After closer consideration, I'll agree that it's a Spring Beauty, but probably the Virginia variety due to the length of the leaves. The Caroliniana has broad oblong leaves, but you couldn't readily see that from my shot. Here's a different shot of them {sorry so washed out} relative to a common dandelion.

I changed my mind, They do have the broad leaves, also the flower petals overlap slightly whereas the Virginia variety does not.
ClaytoniaCaroliniana it is.
Rhianne, ftw.

I thought they look cute with their surroundings, so I snapped a picture.

:)

Lots of cherry blossoms pictures:



























Plus one creepy fish guy:

Great way to jump this thread from Winter into Spring.

I really like the classic view of the Washington Monument (#3) and particularly the gnarly tree (#5).
My G-son and I come across them along rivers and try to imagine
what sorts of lives they've had with floods and storms and still keep growing.

Nice series !

Nice pics.

The Bradford Pear trees around these parts kept their blossoms for about fifteen minutes. Same for the plum and apple trees.

Don't know what that says for the coming summer...

In the park

Brown-Eyed Susan (this one's about the size of a quarter)

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Giant Hibiscus (wind flipped one of the big petals)

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My flowers have not taken the heat well at all.

brown-eye susan....is that what they're called? :)

Your giant hibiscus is huge!! Well, that's why they're called giant. :p:

yes, lola

We always called them Black-eyed Susans.

There was this really mean girl at campfire girl camp whose name was Susan and we were on a scavenger hunt and one item was a black-eyed susan so I said "here, you hold her and I'll punch her in the eye." She was so jealous of my wit and horseriding ability. :lol:

There are Black-Eyed Susans, as well as Brown-Eyed Susans.

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A black-eyed susan by any other name would still look as black.

OMG...how offensive.

Actually, it's same flower/different name.

Rudbeckia hirta, the Black-eyed Susan, with the other common names of: Brown-eyed Susan, Brown Betty, Brown Daisy (Rudbeckia triloba), Gloriosa Daisy, Golden Jerusalem, Poorland Daisy, Yellow Daisy, and Yellow Ox-eye Daisy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia_hirta

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If I didn't actually know I would have given a half an answer and made it sound like I actually know something and think that someone else would come along and actually give an answer other than "yeah I think that's it because where i live they have them and it only means they have them and then sometimes it doesn't mean that at all" a la
RiGHT TO WORK.

:rant:

Ooookay.

(No one gets me anymore. When you ain't gotten, you got no givin' to give cause your givin' ain't gonna get gotten and I get goaded grandly. God, to be gotten or getted.)



















;)

I get it. Often enough.

I really like the classic view of the Washington Monument (#3) and particularly the gnarly tree My G-son and I come across them along rivers and try to imagine. what sorts of lives they've had with floods and storms and still keep growing.i love flowers and i really like printing papers of flowers.

Dara seems to be a bot, or has a very similar life to Lamplighter.

It does sound familiar, doesn't it :confused:

Awww... don't ban it. It's not intolerably irritating, is it? It's interesting. Let's see what it does! Come on... please?

It seemed to be leading up to an ad for some sort of printing service. Several of its posts were a snippet of some other post added to a reference to printing.

Were they all photography related?

All five of the posts were in photo-related threads. Two mentioned printing, one of those mentioned posters in particular. A third post mentioned quality of paper.

Now as Google and FB send their crawlers to The Cellar,
they will code us as an underground print shop

The question remains:

... subversives ? ... forgers ? ... porno ? ... church bulletins ? ... recipes ?

I'm fine with the first three.

I say we specialize.

Subversive pornography forgers.

but now it's band and weal never no.

(parse that you robot you)

Meanwhile, some long stem roses from my back yard. They're over three feet long.

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Nice fedora.

Gravdigr;823167 wrote:

Nice fedora.

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V ... any updated pics of the terrarium/aquarium?

A water lily, taken today at Powell Gardens in Johnson County, MO.

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but this stuff makes my dick hard.

C'mon, we saw what was making your dick hard while she was taking the pictures of the flowers. ;) :lol2:

These just bloomed.
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Pretty, what are they?

It snowed here last night, the only thing that bloomed was ice crystals.

Is it some kind of Rose of Sharon?

Lola Bunny;857083 wrote:

These just bloomed.

Vurry nize.

xoxoxoBruce;857116 wrote:

Pretty, what are they?

I know the Viet name but not the English one. Let me see if the tag is still on the tree tomorrow.

Beautiful blooms

Lola Bunny;857241 wrote:

I know the Viet name but not the English one. Let me see if the tag is still on the tree tomorrow.

What's the Viet name?

Years ago I had a couple of old rose bushes/trees with blooms like that. Rosa mundi was one. They're beautiful.

Rosa Mundi? Did she have a sister named Coati?

eta: googled Rosa Mundi. Looks like Ortho got it in one, I wasn't even in the right kingdom...

I had more than one variety of striped rose, but Rosa Mundi was the nicest.

I forgot to look for the tag today, sorry. I googled rosa mundi, and it's not it. This is not a rose variety. The Viet name is "hoa dao." You can google those words and check out the images. Vietnamese usually like to decorate with this plant for New Year. All the leaves fall off during the winter and when the weather warms up, these buds of flowers would bloom. Very pretty. It's typically in bright pink, varying shades of light pink, and white. It's unusual to be striped like that. It's also untypical although I've seen a few trees where they bloom both bright pink and white or light pink on different branches.

Texas Peach, Prunus persica &#8230;Hoa &#272;ào màu &#273;&#7887;

Hoa Dao (Peach Blossoms)

Peach blossom are an essential symbolic and decorative plant of all households during Tet. It is used to ward off evil spirits during the Tet celebrations. The symbol of its power originated because two legendary deities -- Tra and Uat Luy once lived on a large peach tree in a village located East of the Soc Son Mountain, in North Vietnam. They were powerful deities and evil spirits so feared them that even the sight of a peach plant would scare the evil spirits away. At the end of the every lunar year however, the deities have to return to heaven for an annual meeting, leaving the villagers defenseless. To fight against the evil spirits during the deities&#8217; absence, villagers displayed peach plants in their homes and these were sufficient to scare the evil spirits away.

Ahhh.....I never know where traditions come from. I heard that peach blossoms ward off evil spirits. That's why you should plant some in the front yard and some in the back yard and no evil spirits will come into your home. :)

But if evil spirits sneak in the house during the winter, when the peach blossoms bloom in the front and back yards, they'll be trapped in the house. :mg:

chimney?

xoxoxoBruce;857485 wrote:

But if evil spirits sneak in the house during the winter, when the peach blossoms bloom in the front and back yards, they'll be trapped in the house. :mg:

They're afraid of the tree, not the leaves and flowers, so how are they gonna sneak in during the winter?

footfootfoot;857493 wrote:

chimney?

Well then, just burn a fire. If the evil spirit goes down the chimney, like the big bad wolf, it'll just get its butt burned. :D

Then just build a house out of peach trees. :D

Wait, the Big Bad Wolf comes down the chimney? I thought that was Santa.

Wow, are you telling us the BBW IS Santa?

Down under, he'd come up you chimney. :haha:

ZenGum;857707 wrote:

Wait, the Big Bad Wolf comes down the chimney? I thought that was Santa.

Wow, are you telling us the BBW IS Santa?

Have you ever seen them together?

I rest my case.

The big bad wolf comes down the chimney of the pig's brick house in The Three Little Pigs. :D my nephew likes to act out to these stories. I got my ass burned from climbing down the chimney in that last house. :p

Anybody know what these are?

Growing wild beside the river.

ETA: The blooms hang almost upside down.

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I was gonna guess Narcissus, but it turns out those are always yellow or white.

Virginia Bluebells?

Thank you Bruce and Ocean for letting me know about image searches. I think I am getting better at doing searches now. :D

This is what I came up with... sagebrush bluebell

http://www.redbubble.com/people/bettyeduncan/works/5055942-2-sagebrush-bluebell

Of course, Bruce is still the king. :king:

You may be right, the plant looks short in that link but Google shows them grown taller and the plant is very similar. Besides, he don't know so that's what we'll tell him. :D

Here's a wiki pic of Virginia Bluebells.

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Ima go with that one, cuz the stem & leaves are a dead on match. The Sagebrush Bluebell looks to be a little bit smaller plant, and the blooms aren't a solid match.

Thanks for all the help folks.

:D

xoxoxoBruce;861326 wrote:

Virginia Bluebells?

Ohh, naughty brain. Bruce did NOT just type Vagina Blueballs.

Be a great name for a lesbian punk group though. They could open for Pussy Riot. So to speak.

Ooooh, look, it's a 20041229-112236 bush.

Sorry :)

Bougainvillea - Newstead House, Brisbane Australia, Dec 29th 2004, at 11:22am (and 36 secs). Titled "Pink On Blue" (but I don't have access to my mats on this computer)

Ocean's Edge;863022 wrote:

...Bougainvillea...

Ok...Now I know what Dean Koontz is talking about. He mentions bougainvillea in every novel of his I've ever read.

Thanks!

On our property, we live by the adage, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Plus, my black thumb never did any plant any good deed.

This morning, I went out to continue the cleanup from our fallen limb,
and noticed some blossoms hiding back in amongst the greenery.
Then I started looking around at the struggling orphans and lost beings...

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Now it's time to get to work.

Well that pine must have made you wicked strong. ;)

My middle daughter brought these over for her Mom, all from her garden in PDX.

OMG PDX I <3 U !1

Here's the sorry photo I was trying to get off phone A snow ball bush. Sucks, yes I know.

It was a learning experience. :haha:

I wouldn't say it sucks. Nice blossoms on that bush.

Clematis

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Evening Primrose

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Miniature Rose (about the size of a dime)

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Sweet William

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Sweet, nice pictures too.

Yep. Nice pictures

Thank you.

Gravdigr;900477 wrote:

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Miniature Rose (about the size of a dime)

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Gravdigr;745587 wrote:

Miniature Rose.

You like this little guy doncha? I can see why. Very pretty, all of them.

as for the miniature roses, is that one that comes in a small pot, appearing near the checkout counter in the days and weeks in the run up to Mother's Day? I've purchased miniature roses like that before and killed every single one of them. :(

The ones by the checkout near Mother's Day are a bad choice. They come from a poor upbringing in a bad neighborhood, they're junkies hooked on hard fertilizers and grow light stimulants. They have no stamina so it's near impossible for them to survive the real world abuse of normal people.

My wife's uncle is a landscape guy and he gave out small rose bushes a few years ago. We got one with the instructions to dig a hole, put it in the hole and then forget about it. That rose bush is doing quite well. So I think the bush you get matters.

BigV;900712 wrote:

You like this little guy doncha?

I do!:D

I can't remember where Momdigr got her mini-rose. I'm sure it came from Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, or the like. I don't think she does anything to/with it. It just goes about it's bidness.

Some of my Impdamnifino.

Begonias?
... Nope.
Maybe Explorer Rose

Impatiens, maybe.

The blooms look a little large for impatiens.

To me and my bleary eyes...

xoxoxoBruce;910182 wrote:

Impatiens, maybe.

Yes. New Guinea,

One of my Azaleas, that has survived the dry weather, has it's seasons mixed up.

That's strange, Buster, let's look clos.... Oh, nevermind.

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my upstairs neighbor's rose

Nice!

I love it that roses bloom for such a long time. From Spring through the Fall, they have blossoms going. I should plant rose bushes in my yard.

Bad for the neighborhood, they hang out with a bunch of pricks. :rolleyes:

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I need help identifying this wildflower. It was found ass up in a ditch out in the sticks. Ok, it wasn't literally ass up in a ditch, but it was growing in a ditch, literally.

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It appears the initial petals fold downward to make a skirt for the flower. Orange. The specimen pictured is approximately 12-15 inches tall. The plant itself was about 3 feet tall. Practically no scent. Not that any in the Gravdigr household could smell, anyway.

I would call the flower waxy/fleshy.

ETA: It lasted (in water) for a pretty good while. 5 days, or thereabouts.

Anyone? Bueller?

Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa var. interior)

Dunno what they are, but I planted them years ago and they keep coming back. :)

Balloon flower!! Momdigr has them around the patio.

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I love them.

xoxoxoBruce;991385 wrote:

Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa var. interior)

Thank you, sir.:thumb:

CarolinaSpringGlorys.
The blue ones are Speedwells near as I can tell. iDunno about the ittyBitty white ones.

Shame on you 'hooligan, those pretty little flowers come to cheer you up and you drop a dime on them. :blush:

Good to see you!

{snork!}

xoxoxoBruce;991632 wrote:

Shame on you 'hooligan, those pretty little flowers come to cheer you up and you drop a dime on them. :blush:

Good to see you!

Just had to put in his ten cents' worth...:p:

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Hibiscus, of some sort, maybe?

Pic taken from like 15 feet, waiting on a red light.

yes hibiscus

BigV;993905 wrote:

yes hibiscus

RoseOfSharon, I'd say.

I'm leaning toward Rose...

https://garden.org/plants/browse/plants/children/76969/

Looks to me like all the "Roses of Sharon" are hibiscuses.

The buzz is they bee posies for sure. ;)

Are those expandable gates? Welcome to the cellar.

BigV;993926 wrote:

https://garden.org/plants/browse/plants/children/76969/

Looks to me like all the "Roses of Sharon" are hibiscuses.

Yes, but not all hibiscus are RoS. Kinda like squares and rectangles.
So we're *both* right! ;)

fargon;994866 wrote:

Are those expandable gates?

Gates? Where do ya see gates, I don't see no gates?

Ginormous pics.

Link in first post.

Gravdigr;994897 wrote:

Link in first post.

Thanks for that. I missed it.

Shit.

Now I'm a snitch.

But they are very nice gates.

Is this a rose? And if it isn't, what is it? Please/Thank You.

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And just for fun, a full frame crop:

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Not to brag, or nuthin', but, I , uh, earned that flower. My bartendress gave it to me.:cool:

She doesn't know what it is, she stole it.

peony?

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In the park next to the Sacramento capitol building.

You name your pics funny.

What is that pretty little flower, anyway?

I let my camera name them... No idea what it is.

How do you ever find anything?

Hey remember the pic of that flower from the thing back in 2013?

You mean 46405942354_bbd3e3d1e0_z? Yeah I remember that.




I've never encountered a camera with a file naming scheme such as that one. Can't figure it out. Usually they're pretty easy to suss out, but, my eyes cross when I look at that one.

Its name on Flickr (click the image to go to the page and see it bigger) is 20190216_131448, which is the date and time it was shot. The 46405942354_bbd3e3d1e0_z.jpg filename is the one for the particular 640x480 image that Flickr makes for you for linking and downloading.


I used to be fairly meticuous about tagging and annotating images, but I'm lazy about that now.

Gravdigr;1027875 wrote:

You name your pics funny.

What is that pretty little flower, anyway?

I believe that is a flowering maple.

Thank you.

A parade of chickens with little square glasses...

xoxoxoBruce;1029224 wrote:

A parade of chickens with little square glasses...

Clever! And now permanently stuck in my head.

It's like the thing about ducks wearing dog masks. Can't not see it anymore. :p:

Wait til they break down your door. :eek:

It's a humble flower, but a lovely nonetheless.

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Nothing humble about it, all flowers are works of art.

xoxoxoBruce;1032216 wrote:

...works of art.

well. notSoMuch.
Art is created by man.

Often a Picasso or a Garfunkel.

beauregaardhooligan;1032225 wrote:

well. notSoMuch.
Art is created by man.

You're right, I sit corrected. :haha:

Do you guys name your plants?

We do. Allow me to introduce this year's hangers....

This is Abraham, Abe for short. What is that, Velvet?


He's beautiful and velvety. Black petunia.

And Estelle. She got the old lady fro Goin on



All of the girls are similar to the petunia, but the name starts with a C.... Can never remember it..

Florence, or Flo...




And last is Merka. Short for Americus. Because of the red white and 'blue'. And her proximity to our flag.



She's very patriotic.

Amanda is planning to do the Vincas along the front walk today. We also got some lavender and Spike grass and Gerber daisies... And Batchelor buttons and some impatiens.... And a couple random flowers for the box and beds.

This has been a nice spring so far.

xoxoxoBruce;1032238 wrote:

You're right, I sit corrected. :haha:

...but you were absolutely correct about not being humble. Dandelions are probably the most audacious of all flowers. One of the 1st to flower in the spring, they stand proudly where practically nothing else can grow and proclaim "Here I am!"

I've posted this before but am too lazy to find and link to it. I find it hilarious.

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This is Tim, he lives in the woods.

So (a needle pulling thread), I see no one is naming their flowers Gennifer.

The C word flowers



And not impatiens, verbena.

You see this right here? They claim they are dressing up the steps/entrance to the home.
That's a lie, it's actually a plot to make zombies and geriatrics fall down the steps because they can't reach the railing.
Very crafty plot, but not fooling me for a moment. :headshake

You've said that before, and I actually think of you when I look at them. Just make sure I know you're coming, ifyou drop by again, and I'll get them out of your way.

What? Warn you? That's no fun. :lol2:

Heh, warn him from the curb.

Tell his prone broken body crumpled at the bottom of the stairs by shouting into his recently de-hearing aided ear that he *had* been warned, but he forgot just like his alzheimer's medicine.

BigV;1032319 wrote:

...recently de-hearing aided ear...

:D

BigV;1032319 wrote:

Tell his prone broken body crumpled at the bottom of the stairs by shouting into his recently de-hearing aided ear that he *had* been warned, but he forgot just like his alzheimer's medicine.

Jesus. Settle down.

Jim, I apologize for sparking this dank dark drift. :o

Not your fault sir. These boys get excitable is all. Might just be a couple steps ahead of me with reference to some other conversation they had elsewhere.