2024 FOTD: 01.11 — Appalachian Spring Dogwood

Appalachian Spring Dogwood
Cornus florida ‘Appalachian Spring’

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2024 FOTD: Nectar for Two

1) Delta Flower Scarab
(Trigonopeltastes delta)
2) Papilio troilus,
the spicebush swallowtail

Both the Delta Flower Scarab and the Black Swallowtail butterfly enjoy feasting on the nectar of the Cephalanthus occidentalis, also known as the Buttonbush; Button Bush.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Haigler Loop; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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Floral Friday: 01.05.23 — Wood Spurge

Euphorbia Walberton’s Ruby Glow


Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Macro Monday: 01.01.24

Savoy Cabbage

Savoy Cabbage

Macro Monday

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Whatsoever is Lovely: Along the Catawba River

Aquilegia canadensis
Ranunculaceae
Wild Columbine
Eastern Red Columbine

John’s Cellpic Sunday

XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 52

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 13 Pro

Location: Landsford Canal State Park; Catawba, South Carolina

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2023 RDP: Monday—SUCCULENT

As we have been sick with a respiratory virus (not Covid)since Thanksgiving; we haven’t been out much due to rain and feeling under the weather. Therefore, I am pulling a few succulents I enjoy from my 2023 archives.

Phedimus kamtschaticus
Goldmoss stonecrop
Pacific Shadows Sempervivum
Hens & Chicks

Ragtag Daily Prompt- Monday—Succulent

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️ Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens; 3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250 mm lens.

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina , USA

God Bless. I trust y’all had a wonderful holiday. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Floral Friday: 12.22.23 — Penny Yellow Pansy

Viola cornuta ‘Penny Yellow’

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: 12.20 — Poinsettias

Tapestry Poinsettias

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Christmas Pine Wreath

Welcoming Pine Wreath
Holiday at The Farm
Christmas Pine Wreath

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Holiday at The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 Floral Friday: 12.15 — Orchid

Orchid

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Orchids

Orchid
Orchids

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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Cell Pic Sunday: 12.10.2023 — Poinsettias

Red Poinsettia

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Christmas Poinsettias

John’s Cellpic Sundays

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Floral Friday: Narcissus tazetta

AKA: paperwhite, bunch-flowered narcissus,
bunch-flowered daffodil, Chinese sacred lily,
cream narcissus, joss flower,
and polyanthus narcissus

Narcissus tazetta ( bunched-flowered daffodil) is a perennial ornamental plant that grows from a bulb.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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Wordless Wednesday: Rhododendron ‘conlec’

Azalea Autumn Royalty

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Rosa multiflora

Aka: multiflora rose

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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Edible Plants at The Farm

View from Below
View from Above
Side View

These are Collard Green Plants grown at The Gardens in The Farm at The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina. Many people in the South eat Collard Greens on a regular basis. Personally, I did not grow up as a child eating Collard Greens even though I was born in the South. My mom never fixed them. Now we ate plenty of Spinach and other types of greens just not Collards. What are your thoughts on eating Collard Greens?

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens and Altura (for Canon) Macro Wide-Angle Fisheye lens attachment.

Location: The Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 Macro Monday: Raindrops in the Garden

Purple Pansy

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens

Location: The Farm Gardens; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: 11.26 — Pink Roses

Pink Roses 🌹 🥀 from my archives

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Location: Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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Spattering of Raindrops on a Pansy

Purple Pansy

Debbies Six Word Saturday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Whatsoever Is Lovely-Week 47

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Floral Friday: 11.24 – Fallen Leaves

Maple Leaf
surrounded by
Bald Cypress
(Taxodium Distichum)

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens

Location: Nature Trail; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Caolina, USA

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FOTD: 11.21 — Butterfly Nourishment

Gulf Fritillary
on a Zinnia

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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Sunny Sunday: 11.19 – Symphyotrichum ericoides

Symphyotrichum ericoides
AKA White Heath Aster

Sunny Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Location: Haigler Loop; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2023 Floral Friday: 11.17

Budding Entertainment

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens

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2023 FOTD: 11.15 –

Miltoniopsis (Pansy Orchids)

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: November 14 – Carolina Sweetheart Redbud

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA.

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2023 FOTD: 11.12 – Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora

Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora
is the botanical name
for the white-flowered form
of Digitalis purpurea– the foxglove.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️ 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA.

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2023 Floral Friday: November 10_Zinnias

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens.

Location: By Gibson House; Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina. USA

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Floral Asymmetry: Multicolored Chrysanthemums

Lens-Artists Challenge #274 – Asymmetry

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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2023 FOTD: November 5 – Rudbeckia fulgida

Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii
Black-eyed Susan

Silent Sunday

Sunny Sunday – November 5

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens. Settings: f/5 • 1/1000 • 146mm • ISO100

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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2023 FOTD: A Speck of Autumn

Horse Stables Entrance
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250 mm lens.

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; Dogwood Trail; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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Wordless Wednesday: Ilex cornuta

Ilex cornuta,
the Chinese Holly,
is one of the old reliables
of southeastern landscapes.
AKA Horned Holly.
Aquifoliaceae plant family.

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens.

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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2023 FOTD: Splashing 💦 Zinnias

Garden of Zinnias

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD)

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens. f/8 • 1/200 • 65mm • ISO100

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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Floral Friday: Nicotiana tabacum

Tobacco
(Nicotiana tabacum)
Flowering Tobacco Plant
Close-Up of Tobacco Flowers

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: The Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Dianthus

Dianthus
(Telstar Carmine Rose)

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Location: The Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

Macro Monday: Lonicera japonica

Lonicera japonica
Japanese honeysuckle

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Huntingtowne Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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Silent Sunny Sunday: 2023 October 22

Sunny Sunday

Silent Sunday

John’s Cellpic Sundayk

XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 43

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History’s Garden in The Farm; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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FOTD: Inspire Plus ‘True Blue’

Pansy Viola wittrockiana
Inspire Plus ‘True Blue’

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera

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2023 FOTD: October 17

Purple Prairie Verbena

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max f/1.8 • 1/306 • 6.86mm • ISO64

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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FOTD: 2023 October 16 –

CALENDULA ‘AMBER ARCTIC’

Calendula officinalis
AKA: Calendula,
English Marigold,
Pot Marigold

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 Whatsoever is Lovely: Lovely Flowers from My Week

XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 41

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Cameras: 1,3-4) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens.

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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2023 FOTD: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

Aka: lemon daylily,
lemon lily, yellow daylily

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: In Front of the Gaston County Public Library; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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FOTD: Lampranthus spectabilis

Lampranthus spectabilis,
the trailing iceplant
is a species of flowering plant
in the family Aizoaceae
.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Solidago velutina

Goldenrod soldier beetle on
Solidago velutina

(Velvety Goldenrod)

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Telephoto

Location: By the Lake at Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Gossypium hirsutum

Gossypium hirsutum
Common Name(s):
Mexican Cotton
Upland Cotton

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens.

Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Zinnia Peruviana

Standing Tall in the Garden

Zinnia peruviana
Aka Peruvian zinnia;
Redstar zinnia; Wild Zinnia;
Zinnia

Peruvian zinnia is an annual, erect, wildflower in the Asteraceae family.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens

Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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