Category Archives: Flower images

Not Ready to Pop

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Not Ready to Pop

IMG_4142 Version 4 Version 8I love the seed pods on these flowers almost as much as the flowers.  I earlier identified the flower as a heliconia, having found a picture of it with other heliconias, but I now think I am perhaps wrong.  I Googled it and was so excited to find a picture that looked exactly like my big pot filled with these flowers.  So, I was once again willing to be persuaded that it was an uncharacteristic version of a heliconia when I spotted the url for the flower.  It was my picture!  Ha.  If anyone knows what this is I’d love to find out.  It turns brown and pops open to emit very large shiny black round seeds.  At any rate, I love these black and whites of what I guess are mystery flower ovaries!!!

For more black and white beauties, look here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/10/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-what-is-beautiful-to-you/

This is what the flower looks like, for identification purposes only.  Obviously not a black and white!

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Datura: Cee’s Flower of the Day: 9/9/15

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Datura (also known as Angel’s Trumpets or Moonflowers)

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Go HERE to see other flowers of the day on Cee’s blog.

Greens: Flower of the Day 9/8/15

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Greens: Flower of the Day
IMG_4340I love the fragility of these green palm blossoms. Soon they will fall like rain.
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To view Cee’s flower and others, go HERE.

Birds of Paradise: Flower of the Day, 9/7/15

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Birds of Paradise

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For more wonderful flowers, go HERE.

More Orange Bougainvilleas: Flower of the day

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                                                   More Orange Bougainvilleas

Okay, more orange bougainvilleaS, but this time with the real flowers : (Click on photos to enlarge.)IMG_4690 IMG_4695 IMG_4692 IMG_4691 IMG_4693Each of those little coral pistil-looking rods is actually a flower bud getting ready to open.  Since my last bougainvilleas post, most of them have opened, giving the bougainvillieas a fluffier look!  I like both stages–sparse and frilly!  In Mexico, they are bugambilias and they have many namesakes: housing developments, shopping centers, movie theaters.

See more flowers here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/06/flower-of-the-day-september-6-2015-dahlia/

First Blush: Bougainvillea–Flower of the Day Challenge 9/5/15

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First Blush: Bougainvillea– Flower of the Day Challenge

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IMG_4656This bougainvillea has a different look from my others.  I love its simplicity, color, and the three pistil-like protrusions. I know that literally, these are leaves, not flowers, but somewhere within their makeup they contain what will become flowers!

More flor:  5/09/05/flower-of-the-day-september-5-2015-orchid/

Yesterday’s Hibiscus Flowers Opening: Flower of the Day 9/4/15

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Yesterday’s Hibiscus Flowers Opening

Later in the day, I went out to see what yesterday’s furled hibiscus buds were up to.  they weren’t fully unfurled, but still, looked very different from that morning’s tight buds.
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http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/04/flower-of-the-day-september-4-2015-tulip/

Hibiscus with Worst House Guest Scenario: Flower of the Day, 9/3/15

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Hibiscus with Worst House Guest Scenario

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Version 4 IMG_4021 (2) Some leaf predator has been busy on this hibiscus leaf, and the severed bud caught in it is a bit the worse for wear as well, but it makes for an interesting picture; and I think the bud to the right in the first picture has escaped devastation, at least.

IMG_4646The culprit causing all this damage is a little worm hidden in this foam.

 

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For more flowers, go HERE.

Lantana: Flower of the Day 9/2/15

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Lantana

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For more flowers, go HERE.

Zinnias, Gone to Seed: Flower of the day 9/1/15

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