PeppermintPatty
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Day lily
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- Thread starter MarkD
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Day lily
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
I took this pic in Seattle, WA. No idea what the official name is— maybe a type of dogwood? I’ve just never seen those flowers with points on the petals …
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
That would be my guess too.
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
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- San Francisco Bay Area
Here are a couple of dogwood flowers I photographed at FILOLI, the Woodside estate garden
I'm pretty sure this next one is also a dogwood but fancier than most.
I'm pretty sure this next one is also a dogwood but fancier than most.
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
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- San Francisco Bay Area
Just a couple weeks ago my garden designing neighbor passed and there was a sale of plants from his garden to help his estate. I picked out a Bilbergia bromeliad as he had lived in Brazil and seeing them reminds me of him. The foliage is especially nice turquoise/chrome color and now the first flowers are opening and I think they're a pretty nice blue with some red parts for shock value.
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
This is one of the Butterfly Gardens promoted by Roselyn Carter each year in Americus GA
JustBonee
SF VIP
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- Texas Gulf Coast
Hill Country around Austin, Texas …. this time of year we have Bluebonnets for hundreds of miles around the area.
State law: Can look - but don’t touch!
State law: Can look - but don’t touch!
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Japanese Dogwood
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Hill Country around Austin, Texas …. this time of year we have Bluebonnets for hundreds of miles around the area.
State law: Can look - but don’t touch!
Is it true that everything is better with blue bonnets on it?
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
One of the spectacular roses in the public rose garden next to the Fremont zoo in Seattle
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
I met a new plant today and it had a ridiculous amount of bloom for its size.
But incase you can't see it in the original photos here is an enlarged crop of the foliage which is the the real star:
Those leaves feel just like kitten ears. Its popular name is Brazilian Edelweiss which makes sense if you've ever seen or felt Edelweiss.
But incase you can't see it in the original photos here is an enlarged crop of the foliage which is the the real star:
Those leaves feel just like kitten ears. Its popular name is Brazilian Edelweiss which makes sense if you've ever seen or felt Edelweiss.
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
A tulip poplar bloom from my yard
RadishRose
SF VIP
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- Connecticut, USA
That's beautiful photo, Cinna. You should frame it.
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Because you posted this I picked up a bag of bulbs this year. They’re on their way up. Looking forward to seeing how they work where I put them. Thanks!
Tish
SF VIP
- Location
- Rural N.S.W. Australia
Cyclamen
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
I met a new plant today and it had a ridiculous amount of bloom for its size.
But incase you can't see it in the original photos here is an enlarged crop of the foliage which is the the real star:
Those leaves feel just like kitten ears. Its popular name is Brazilian Edelweiss which makes sense if you've ever seen or felt Edelweiss.
Just found my picture of the Edelweiss sung about in the Sound of Music:
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
My daughter’s pic of azaleas this evening:
DailyArtsyCrafter
Crafter Writer Artist
- Location
- Southeastern US
Pretty! I never noticed that some azaleas can have such long stamens.
DailyArtsyCrafter
Crafter Writer Artist
- Location
- Southeastern US
These are celosia flowers. I'd never seen any in all the years that I've been potting plants in different states. I'm using them in container gardening.
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DailyArtsyCrafter
Crafter Writer Artist
- Location
- Southeastern US
Hill Country around Austin, Texas …. this time of year we have Bluebonnets for hundreds of miles around the area.
State law: Can look - but don’t touch!
Sure would be difficult to not snatch just a few!
DailyArtsyCrafter
Crafter Writer Artist
- Location
- Southeastern US
When I once worked in the floral dept of a Kroger store, a young woman said she wanted to buy a potted plant gift for someone. She didn't know what to get but she told me who she was buying for. What immediately came to my mind was a little pot of purplish cyclamen. As I held it up to her, described its easy care, the reasonable price and pointed out the little, spindly blooms, she became mesmerized. She happily took it from my hands and went to the checkout with stars in her eyes.
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