Category Archives: Flower images

Allenda’s Gardenia: Flower of the Day, Sept.20, 2016

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The deer had eaten most of the flowers in my friend Allenda’s hillside gardens, but this gardenia and a few mums had escaped a place in their salad table.  More flowerless photos will follow in a subsequent post.

April asked if gardenias are edible.  Yes, in fact they are said to have a sweet taste when eaten raw.  For a recipe for crystallized gardenia petals, go here:
http://simmerandboil.cookinglight.com/2014/10/08/edible-flowers-crystallized-gardenia-petals/

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/19/flower-of-the-day-september-20-2016-dahlia/

More Sedum: Flower of the Day, Sept. 19, 2016

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Ms. Bee, Ms. Bee, how much more lush could a sedum be?

 (An interesting fact revealed to me by a bee scholar is that worker bees are females without ovaries, not males, so my former usage of Mr. Bee was incorrect.  Now who would know that???  He who knows all: Forgottenman!!!)

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/18/flower-of-the-day-september-19-2016-dahlia/

Cheating Rose:Flower of the Day, Sept. 18, 2016

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https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/17/flower-of-the-day-september-18-2016-dahlia/

Imperfect Darling: Flower of the Day, Sept. 17, 2016 (Echinacea)

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To my eye, this bedraggled and pockmarked echinacea bloom has a beauty all its own.

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/16/flower-of-the-day-september-17-2016-dahlia/

Cosmos: Cee’s Flower of the Day, Sept. 16, 2016

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Not the same flower as a few days ago, but possibly the same wasp.

Don’t miss this flower on Cee’s blog:  Beautiful and Weird!

Nasturtium: Flower of the Day, Sept 15, 2016

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Orange nasturtiums were the first flowers I ever planted myself, from seed, in the apartment I frequented for a year while I got my masters degree. They totally took over the soil by my back door stoop. I loved their cheery hardiness, but for some reason I’ve never planted them again. These are the first nasturtiums I’ve seen since that weren’t in a salad. Love the yellow.  Wish I’d asked for some seed.

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/14/flower-of-the-day-september-15-2016-mum/

Hollyhock: Flower of the Day Sept. 14, 2016

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My very first favorite flower.  They grew tall beside our back stoop and every summer, we’d make Hollyhock dolls out of them. I found these outside the “Anne of Green Gables” house on Prince Edward Island.  Click on first photo to enlarge.

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/13/flower-of-the-day-september-14-2016-gladiolus/

Flower of the Day – September 13, 2016 – Mums

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Flower of the Day – September 13, 2016 – Mums

Stages of the Rose: Flower of the Day, Sept 12, 2016

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https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/11/flower-of-the-day-september-12-2016-black-eyed-susans/

Black-eyed Susan: Flower of the Day, Sept 11, 2016

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More ladies photographed at the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Nova Scotia.

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/10/flower-of-the-day-september-11-2016-wildflowers/