2023 OWS: RED Knockouts

Floribunda Garden
Rose Bush

Cherry Red
Knockout
Rosebuds
Red Knockout
Rose Bud

Debbies One Word Sunday: Red

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max 24mm f1.78

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Floral Friday: Yellow Bearded Iris

Bearded Iris
Califora Pleasant Peasant
(Reblooming) Bud

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Floral Friday

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

Impatiens walleriana,
also known as busy Lizzie,
balsam, sultana,
or simply impatiens,
is a species of the
genus Impatiens.
Impatiens sultanii

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

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Lavenders & Sage

Lavender & Meadow Sage
Meadow Sage
Salvia x sylvestris
Lavender ‘May Night’ 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 

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

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Wordless Wednesday: Viola Cornuta

Tufted Violet Violets
Horned PansyHorned Violet

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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FOTD: Rhododendron

Rhododendron ‘Berliner Liebe’
Rhododendron ‘Berliner Liebe’
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

Botanical Name:
Carya cordiformis
Common Name:
Bitternut Hickory

FOTD

Silent Sunday

John’s Cellpic Sunday

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NPC #7: Tulips and Magnolias

Canada 150 tulip
(Aka Flaming Tulip)

Denzil Nature: NPC #7: Tulips and Magnolias

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Twice as Nice

Phalaenopsis – Moth Orchid – Double Spike
Orchid (Cymbidium)

Neoregelia carolinae,
the blushing bromeliad,
is a species

of flowering plant
in the genus Neoregelia.
Orchid Cambria
Odontoglossum ‘Francine’ Pink

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Two

Cee‘s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

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

Eastern Tree Caterpillar
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.
Photinia ‘ Red Robin ‘ P x fraseri
also known as the Christmas Berry
makes an attractive hedging plant
with its glossy red new growth.
Wisteria sinensis ‘Cooke’s Purple’
Hally Jolivette Cherry (Prunus)
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

Prunus serotina var. serotina
COMMON NAME:
Black Cherry,

Eastern Wild Black Cherry,
Bird Cherry

Cee‘s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

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FOTD: Be Respectful _Garden Flowers

Be Respectful
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

Pink Carnations

Loropetalum chinense

is commonly known
loropetalum,
Chinese Fringe Flower
and Strap Flower
Flowers on an
Eastern Redbud
(Cercis canadensis)
Pink Rose
Pink for Breast Cancer
No one should
FIGHT ALONE
Til Valhalla Project
No Hero Left Behind

Denzil Nature Photo Challenge:Pink

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Bren’s Floral Friday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

©️2023@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com … All Rights Reserved.

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WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 10

Garden Flowers
Martha Rivers Park
Gastonia, North Carolina

WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 10

Cee‘s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

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

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FOTD: Violets

Viola,
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)

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

Viola × wittrockiana
Yellow Garden Pansy
Container Garden Pansies

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

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FOTD: 2023 Tuesday February 21 – Daffodils

Large-Cupped Daffodils
(Narcissus’Ice Follies’)
White and Yellow
Daffodils
Close up view
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

Purple Violet Pansy

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Floral Friday

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Wordless Wednesday: Phalaenopsis Jillion | Orchid flower

Phalaenopsis Jillion |
Orchid flower,
Orchid tree,
Orchid

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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A Rose Bouquet: A Beauty for your day.

Rose Orange Crush

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

FOTD

Floral Friday

CFFC

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FOTD: 2023 – Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.)

Buds of Sorbus aucuparia Fastigiata

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Sunny Sunday! #6 – Helianthus

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.

Sunny Sunday!

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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FOTD: 2023 – Floral Arrangements @ Doc Watson Statue

Floral Arrangements
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.

Sitting by my cousin,
Arthel “Doc” Watson’s Bronze Statue
Boone, North Carolina

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

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FOTD: 2023 – Christmas Star

Euphorbia pulcherrima (Stelle di Natale)
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

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Silent Sunday

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Floral Friday #82: Aloe arborescens


Aloe arborescens, the krantz aloe or candelabra aloe

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: Jim Elder

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FOTD: 06 January 2023 – A Greenway Floral Garden

Floral Garden
Gibson House
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Horse Stables Entrance

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: Deb L Waters

Copyright ©️2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com

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Floral Friday: 12/30/2022

Small White Wildflowers
They grow everywhere around here.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

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FOTD: Kalanchoe Provincial 2

Kalanchoe Provincial 2

Captured this plant with my iPhone 13 Pro at my local Aldi’s.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Cell Pic Sunday

Photo Credit: Copyright (c)2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com … All Rights Reserved.

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Floral Friday #83: December 23, 2022

Spotted this plant by the checkout counter at our local Aldi’s.

Christmas Kalanchoe

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.

Floral Friday

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].

Hanging Planter
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

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

Window Flower Box
Pearl Valley
Ohio

Photo Credit: ©️2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com

Monday Windows.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.

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CMMC: Macro or Close-up – December 2022

Western
Honey Bee
on
Goldenrod
Lilium Candidum,
the Madonna Lily
or White Lily
Hemerocallis
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

AKA
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

A Pink Rose
from my
Garden
years ago

Posted as part of Weekly Prompts Color Challenge.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.

Wordless Wednesday

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Cell Pic Sunday: December 4, 2022 – Butterfly

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Blossoming Bird Cherry
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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.

VIOLA TRICOLOR VAR. HORTENSIS PENSEER

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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FOTD: Floral Friday #80

The weather this week has been cold and rainy, so this is a floral photo from mine and Coleman’s hike last week at Baxter Village Trailhead which is a part of the Carolina Thread Trail.

Baccharis halimifolia
is a North American species
of shrubs in the family Asteraceae.

Camera Settings:

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i

f/5.6 1/250 163mm ISO250

Posted as part of Floral Friday and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.

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FOTD: Discarded Autumn Bouquet

As I walked around my complex today I noticed these discarded flowers sitting out back of one of the apartments. I wondered why someone would just place them out their back door and not throw them away if they didn’t want them any more. It appeared as if there wasn’t much life to them anymore.

Posted as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.

Walking Squares

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FOTD: Decorated For Christmas

Decorated with
Christmas 🎄 Lights

Cee’s Flower of the Day and Becky’s Walking Squares Photo Challenges.

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FOTD: November 19, 2022 -Wildflower

Cosmos bipinnatus,
commonly called
the garden cosmos
or Mexican aster.

These Garden Cosmos are located in the Jane Spratt McColl Wildflower Meadow at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Flower of the Day

FOTD

Photo Credit: ©️2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com

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FOTD: 11/18/2022

The Alexander Rose

Posted as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day photography Challenge.

Photo Credit: ©️2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com

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Floral Friday #77 – Biden Aristosa

My grandson, Coleman and I went for a walk through the city to see what shops were in walking distance from our apartment and spotted these bright yellow flowers along the way.

Bidens aristosa
AKA Bearded Beggarticks
AKA Tickseed Sunflower

These flowers are Bidens. They are known by several common names as you can see from the various names I used for the photos. Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. The common names beggarticks, black jack, burr marigolds, cobbler’s pegs, Spanish needles, and tickseed sunflowers refer to the fruit of the plants.

Posted as part of Bren’s Floral Friday #77,
Cee’s FOTD (Flower of the Day Challenge), and Becky’s Square challenge: Walking Squares #4.

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FOTD: November 3, 2022

Baccharis halimifolia:

Baccharis halimifolia
 is a 
North American 
species of shrubs
in the family 
Asteraceae.
Eastern Baccharis
is a

perennial deciduous shrub
associated with the
high marsh system,
often confused
with marsh elder
(Iva frutescens),
due to their
similar growth form
and placement
in the landscape.

Posted as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.

Photo Credit: (c) 2022@gfpacificbeeintrospection.com

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro

Settings:

Top photo – ƒ/1.5 1/518 5.7mm ISO50

Middle photo – ƒ/1.8 1/207 1.57mm ISO32

Bottom photo – ƒ/1.5 1/539 5.7mm ISO50

#FOTD #FloweroftheDay

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FOTD: November 1st, 2022

Lady’s Bedstraw

Posted as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge. #FOTD #FloweroftheDay

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FOTD: October 31, 2022

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FOTD: 10/27 – Ageratum houstonianum

Flossflower
AKA Bluemink
AKA Blueweed
AKA Mexican Paintbrush

Ageratum houstonianum, is a cool-season annual plant often grown as bedding in gardens. Location for these flowers are alongside the Catawba River in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Posted as part of Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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