Tag: #FloralABC’s

Floral Friday/The #Flower Hour #50 — 2026 October 02

The #Flower Hour
Floral ABCs
W, X, Y, & Z

This week Terri, our host for The Flower Hour is focusing on Floral ABC’s concentrating on WXYZ. This is the last week for the Floral ABC’s as we’ve come to the conclusion of the alphabet. Let’s have some fun. Here are my WXYZ Florals for this week’s challenge.  It wasn’t too hard to locate flowers beginning with W or Y and Z but X was impossible to locate, henceforth, I didn’t find any X flowers amongst my photo files. 

Here’s looking at the W’s …

  • Wisteria sinensis
Wisteria sinensis,
aka Chinese Wisteria
Gastonia, North Carolina
  • Windowbox Woodsorrel
Aka Oxalis articulata,
pink-sorrel, pink wood sorrel,
windowbox wood-sorrel, sourgrass
Gardner Park, Gastonia, North Carolina
  • Waterlily
Purple tropical water lilies
(©️Trisha L.Wilson, my daughter)
Discovery River
Animal Kingdom
Walt Disney World
Orlando, Florida

Skipping X …..

On to the Y’s …

  • Yuccas
Yucca plant in full bloom
Cramerton, North Carolina
  • Yucca rostrata
Aka Beaked Yucca
Daniel Stowe Conservancy
Belmont, North Carolina

Z’s call for Zinnias … A Gallery of …

  • Zinnia peruviana
  • Zinnia elegans
Terri’s The #Flower Hour
Floral ABC’s – WXYZ

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Terri’s The Flower Hour #50 – Floral ABC’s-WXYZ

Also posting in remembrance of … 

Bren’s Floral Friday 

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

God Bless. Admire the Flowers and the beauty found in nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Floral Friday/The #Flower Hour #48— 2026 September 18

The #Flower Hour
Floral ABCs
Letters S T U V

This week Terri, our host for The Flower Hour is focusing on Floral ABC’s concentrating on STUV. Let’s have some fun. Here are my STUV Florals for this week’s challenge. It wasn’t too hard to locate flowers beginning with S and T, but U was extremely difficult, henceforth, I didn’t find any amongst my photo files. V was hard to locate any type of flowers other than Violets.

Here’s looking at the S’s …

• Salvia farinacea

Aka Mealycup Sage
  • Black-Eyed Susan
Aka Rudbeckia hirta
  • Purple Salsify
Aka Oyster Plant
or Vegetable Oyster
  • Sedum
Aka Stonecrop

How about a look at the T’s …

  • Tulipa ×gesneriana Parrot
Aka Parrot Tulips
  • Trumpet Vine
Aka Trumpet Creeper,
Campsis radicans
  • Bull Thistle
Aka Cirsium vulgare,
Spear Thistle
  • Tulipa fosteriana
Aka Fosteriana
or Emperor tulip

Sorry, No U’s to be seen.

Skipping to V’s …

  • African Violets
Aka Saintpaulia
  • Viola × wittrockiana
Aka Viola tricolor var. hortensis,
Garden Pansies
Viola tricolor var. hortensis
Viola x wittrockiana (Pansy)
  • Viola pedunculata
California golden violet

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Terri’s The Flower Hour #48 – Floral ABC’s-STUV

Also posting in remembrance of … 

Bren’s Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

God Bless. Admire the Flowers and the beauty found in nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

The #Flower Hour #46— 2026 September 01

Terri’s The #Flower Hour
Floral ABC’s
Starring P, Q, and R

This week Terri is focusing on Floral ABC’s concentrating on PQR. Let’s have some fun. Here are my PQR Florals for this week’s challenge.

  • The P’s …
    • Poppies
Matilija poppy
(Romneya coulteri)
Aka the fried egg poppy.
Papaver croceum Ledeb.
Papaveraceae Ice poppy
  • Pansy …
Garden pansy
(Viola × wittrockiana)
  • Plantaginaceae (Plaintain Family)
    • Purpurea …
Digitalis purpurea
(aka Common foxglove)
  • Plumerias …
Plumeria rubra
  • The Q’s … (I didn’t find many)
    • Queen Anne’s lace
Queen Anne’s lace herb
(Daucus carota)
Queen Anne’s lace,
aka Wild carrot
(Daucus carota)
  • The R’s …
    • Roses …
Damask Rose
A Bouquet of Roses
Rose (Rosa ‘Bella’roma’)
Rosa Pink Drift
Red Rose
Rose
  • Red Columbine
Red Columbine
(Aquilegia canadensis)

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Terri’s The Flower Hour #46 – Floral ABC’s-PQR

Also posting in remembrance of … 

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

God Bless. Admire the Flowers and the beauty found in nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

The #Flower Hour #44— 2026 August 18

Terri’s The #Flower Hour
Floral ABC’s
Starring M, N, and O

This week Terri is focusing on Floral ABC’s concentrating on MNO. Let’s have some fun. Here are my MNO Florals for this week’s challenge.

Plant M:

Located at the
Schiele Museum
of Natural History’s
Garden in the Farm
in Gastonia, NC

Plant N:

Located near the
Historic Baltimore
Fishing Pier
in Cramerton, NC

Plant O:

Located at the
Daniel Stowe
Botanical Garden
in Belmont, NC

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Terri’s The Flower Hour #44 – Floral ABC’s

Key:

  • Plant M – Marigold, aka Calendula officinalis, Mary’s gold, common marigold, the pot marigold, Scotch marigold
  • Plant N – Narcissus pseudonarcissus, aka
    the wild daffodil or Lent lily
  • Plant O – Moth Orchids (Phalaenopsis)

Also posting in remembrance of … 

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

God Bless. Admire the Flowers and the beauty found in nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

The #Flower Hour #42— 2026 August 05

Terri’s Floral ABC’s
Floral ABC’s
Starring J, K, L

This week Terri is focusing on Floral ABC’s concentrating on JKL. Let’s have some fun. Here are my JKL Florals for this week’s challenge.

Plant J:

Japanese honeysuckle
(Lonicera japonica)

Plant K:

Kalanchoe

Plant L:

Lilium
Asiatic Lily ‘Tiny Rocket’

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Terri’s The Flower Hour #42 – Floral ABC’s

Also posting in remembrance of … 

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

God Bless. Admire the Flowers and the beauty found in nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.