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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens. f/9 1/200 300mm ISO400
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FOTD: 2023 June 7_White Raspberry Blossom
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FOTD: 2023 June 5 – Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora, montbretia
Crocosmia’s flowers are brilliantly colored and showy, making them a wonderful choice for flower arrangements. Sometimes called Montbretia, the tubular-shaped flowers are extremely attractive to hummingbirds. The brilliant red yellow or orange blooms appear in May or June with sword-shaped foliage.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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2023 May CMMC: Iris, Ice, Independent or Index Finger.
AKA the yellow flag,
yellow iris, or water flag
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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Macro Monday: Salsa Red Coneflower
Echinacea Sombrero Salsa Red displays single rows of drooping, deep orange-red ray petals around a sombrero-shaped, orange-brown cone. The lightly fragrant flowers attract butterflies! They provide long lasting color in the garden.
Salsa Red
Coneflower
These are reded daisy-like flowers with dark cones and are produced on strong, well branched stems. Echinacea is well known for its large, daisy-like flowers. It is a bold, sturdy perennial sporting flowers with a large cone-shaped center, hence its common name of Coneflower.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Settings: f/2.2 1/381 2.22mm ISO40
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FOTD: Canna indica
known as
Indian Shot
It is also known by African Arrowroot, Arrowroot, Canna, Edible Canna, and Wild Canna Lily among a few other names.
The rhizomes of cannas are rich in starch, and have many uses in agriculture. All of the plant material has commercial value, rhizomes for starch (consumption by humans and livestock), stems and foliage for animal fodder, young shoots as a vegetable, and young seeds as an addition to tortillas.
Other interesting uses include the hard black seeds of the Arrowroot having been used in the 19th century as bullets when ammunition was limited. The seeds are also used for making jewelry and musical instruments such as rattles.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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2023 OWS: RED Knockouts
Rose Bush
Knockout
Rosebuds
Rose Bud
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max 24mm f1.78
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Floral Friday: Yellow Bearded Iris
Califora Pleasant Peasant
(Reblooming) Bud
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 20
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm Super Macro and Altura for Canon Wide-Angle Fisheye Lenses
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Floral Friday: Impatiens walleriana
also known as busy Lizzie,
balsam, sultana,
or simply impatiens,
is a species of the
genus Impatiens.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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Lavenders & Sage
These Lavender & Sage plants and flowers are within the Memorial Garden which you can find along the Nature Trail at The Schiele Museum located in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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Wordless Wednesday: Viola Cornuta
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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FOTD: Rhododendron
Rhododendron
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L.Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Silent Sunday: Carya cordiformis
Carya cordiformis
Bitternut Hickory
John’s Cellpic Sunday
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NPC #7: Tulips and Magnolias
(Aka Flaming Tulip)
Denzil Nature: NPC #7: Tulips and Magnolias
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Twice as Nice
Neoregelia carolinae,
the blushing bromeliad,
is a species
of flowering plant
in the genus Neoregelia.
Odontoglossum ‘Francine’ Pink
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Two
Cee‘s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm
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NPC #5/CPC: First Hints/Signs of Spring in The South-Central Piedmont Region of North Carolina
nests are commonly found on
wild cherry, apple, and crab apple,
but may be found on hawthorn, maple,
cherry, peach, pear and plum as well.
There is one generation of the
Eastern tent caterpillar per year.
The insects overwinter
as egg masses on twigs,
and they hatch in April.
They turn into moths
which are reddish-brown
with two pale stripes running
diagonally across each forewing.
also known as the Christmas Berry
makes an attractive hedging plant
with its glossy red new growth.
is one of the best
flower ornamental
cherry trees available.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: First hints of spring
Nature Photo Challenge #5: Signs of Spring
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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FOTD: 2023 – Prunus Serotina
COMMON NAME:
Black Cherry,
Eastern Wild Black Cherry,
Bird Cherry
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Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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FOTD: Be Respectful _Garden Flowers
No Poop & Pee
Neighborhood Garden Flowers
Gastonia, North Carolina
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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2023 Nature Photo Challenge: PINK
Loropetalum chinense
is commonly known
loropetalum,
Chinese Fringe Flower
and Strap Flower
Eastern Redbud
(Cercis canadensis)
No one should
FIGHT ALONE
Til Valhalla Project
No Hero Left Behind
Denzil Nature Photo Challenge:Pink
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 10
Martha Rivers Park
Gastonia, North Carolina
WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 10
Cee‘s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon 75-300 mm lens
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FOTD: Violets
a genus
in the violet
family Violaceae.
Common name: Violet
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Floral Friday: Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera)
Posted for Bren’s Floral Friday and Cee’s Flower of the Day
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Taken with my iPhone 13 Pro on Tuesday, February 28 @ 3:26 pm.
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Floral Friday: 2023 February 24 – Yellow Garden Pansies
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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FOTD: 2023 Tuesday February 21 – Daffodils
(Narcissus’Ice Follies’)
Daffodils
of a
Large-cupped
Daffodil
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 13 Pro
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FOTD: 2023 February 17 – Viola Garden Pansy
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Wordless Wednesday: Phalaenopsis Jillion | Orchid flower
Orchid flower,
Orchid tree,
Orchid
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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A Rose Bouquet: A Beauty for your day.
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FOTD: 2023 – Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.)
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Sunny Sunday! #6 – Helianthus
Helianthus annuus is the taxon name for this flower. Most people would recognize the common name for it though. The common name is Common Sunflower.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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FOTD: 2023 – Floral Arrangements @ Doc Watson Statue
Arthel “Doc” Watson Statue
Boone, North Carolina
Arthel “Doc” Watson (1923-2012), an 8-time Grammy winner, was born down the road in Deep Gap and always remained “Just One of The People,” as this sculpture states. [As a side note: “Doc” is my maternal 4th cousin.]
Doc became part of the Folk Revival and is known worldwide for his flat-picking style of guitar playing. The Town of Boone celebrates Doc Watson Day every year with a concert at the Jones House. This bronze statue of Doc Watson was dedicated on June 24, 2011, and sculpted by Alexander M. Hallmark.
Arthel “Doc” Watson’s Bronze Statue
Boone, North Carolina
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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FOTD: 2023 – Christmas Star
Christmas Star, Poinsettia
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Jim Elder
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FOTD: 2023 – Gazania rigens
Gazania rigens, Treasure Flower,
Histadrut flower/Union flower
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Silent Sunday: Black Chokeberry Aronia
Floral Friday #82: Aloe arborescens
Aloe arborescens, the krantz aloe or candelabra aloe
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Jim Elder
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FOTD: 06 January 2023 – A Greenway Floral Garden
Gibson House
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Horse Stables Entrance
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Photo Credit: Deb L Waters
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Floral Friday: 12/30/2022
They grow everywhere around here.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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FOTD: Kalanchoe Provincial 2
Captured this plant with my iPhone 13 Pro at my local Aldi’s.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Floral Friday #83: December 23, 2022
Spotted this plant by the checkout counter at our local Aldi’s.
The Kalanchoe is a group of exotic succulents prized for their unusual foliage and flowers. The scientific name is Kalanchoe blossfeldiana. It is a herbaceous and is commonly cultivated as a house plant of the genus Kalanchoe native to Madagascar. A few of the English common names are flaming Katy, Christmas kalanchoe, florist kalanchoe and Madagascar widow’s thrill.
Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)
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CMMC: Violet or White Color – At the Gibson House
It’s been cold and rainy all week. On Wednesday, Coleman and I decided to try to beat the rain and ventured out to visit Forest at Anne Springs Close Greenway Horse Stables. It was sure cold 🥶 though. However, Coleman enjoyed his time visiting the horses. [Those pictures are saved for another post].
on the ground
at the
Gibson House
We spotted these Violet and White Flowers by the Gibson House on the way back to the car whilst trying not to get the camera wet. So naturally I had to capture them with a few snapshots. After all I did have my camera around my neck.
Posted as par Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC) and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.
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Floral Friday # 81: December 16, 2022 – Salvia lyrata
It is sometimes grown in gardens for its attractive foliage and flowers, though it can prolifically seed, easily becoming a lawn weed.
Photo taken @ Andrew Jackson State Park in April 2018 with an Apple iPhone X.
Photo Credit: ©️2018@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com
Bren’s Floral Friday Challenge.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.
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Monday Window: Flower Box – Pearl Valley
Pearl Valley
Ohio
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CMMC: Macro or Close-up – December 2022
Honey Bee
on
Goldenrod
the Madonna Lily
or White Lily
Common Name:
Daylily or Day Lily
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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FOTD: Zonal Geranium
Garden Geranium
Cee’s Flower of the Day Photography Challenge.
Bren’s Floral Friday Challenge
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Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Pinkish – Rose
from my
Garden
years ago
Posted as part of Weekly Prompts Color Challenge.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.
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Cell Pic Sunday: December 4, 2022 – Butterfly
nurturing on
(Prunus padus, hagberry, mayday tree)
Photo Credit: ©️2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com
Posted as part of John’s Cell Pic Sunday Challenge
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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FOTD: December 3, 2022 – Viola
Haven’t traveled too far since Covid-19 lockdown, however, in early 2020 I visited relatives in Texas. While there I would walk around the neighborhood or wherever the opportunity arose.
I spotted these lovely flowers while walking around my Aunt’s neighborhood in Abilene, Texas. It was taken with the cell phone I had at the time, an iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge. FOTD.
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