Just Flowers - 05/29/2022

[Douglas Sherman]

My contribution for today is one of the prettiest spring flowers in the Midwest: Trout Lilly. One of the most attractive features of this plant are the variegated leaves. Blooms of this plant can be either yellow or white.

Please pile on with your flower image(s)

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice blooms for starters Doug - I like the lilies.

My offering for today is a street side bouquet that is actually someone's hedgerow. The 12' tall hedge is somewhat untamed with lots of plants vying for sunlight but the primary plant is Photinia with the small white blooms and red tinted leaves. In this case they also have wisteria growing somewhere on the other side of the hedgerow that has poked through to offer up this nice scene. Pruning could be a painful task with the blackberries intertwined in the mix but I confess that I don't mind since this isn't on my property and I can poach some berries from the sidewalk in late July/early August when they ripen

 

[MonikaC]

Beautiful flowers, Doug!
Here are some from my garden 2 days before we got hit with a big, heavy, snow & sub-zero nighttime temperatures.

 

[MonikaC]

Nice blooms for starters Doug - I like the lilies.

My offering for today is a street side bouquet that is actually someone's hedgerow. The 12' tall hedge is somewhat untamed with lots of plants vying for sunlight but the primary plant is Photinia with the small white blooms and red tinted leaves. In this case they also have wisteria growing somewhere on the other side of the hedgerow that has poked through to offer up this nice scene. Pruning could be a painful task with the blackberries intertwined in the mix but I confess that I don't mind since this isn't on my property and I can poach some berries from the sidewalk in late July/early August when they ripen

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What a confusion of beauty, Alan! And edible, to boot.....

 

[Jameel Hyder]

My contribution for this week.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Beautiful flowers everyone, Monica, I am embarrassed to show my iris after showing yours. These are growing in my yard.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nice blooms for starters Doug - I like the lilies.

My offering for today is a street side bouquet that is actually someone's hedgerow. The 12' tall hedge is somewhat untamed with lots of plants vying for sunlight but the primary plant is Photinia with the small white blooms and red tinted leaves. In this case they also have wisteria growing somewhere on the other side of the hedgerow that has poked through to offer up this nice scene. Pruning could be a painful task with the blackberries intertwined in the mix but I confess that I don't mind since this isn't on my property and I can poach some berries from the sidewalk in late July/early August when they ripen

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Nice job on selecting an area of this hedge that has a nice composition, Alan.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Beautiful flowers, Doug!
Here are some from my garden 2 days before we got hit with a big, heavy, snow & sub-zero nighttime temperatures.
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Beautiful, Monika. You are getting really good at this.

 

[ProCaliberTraveler]

Here's one of the shots taken during my walk around Portland, right after it rained.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Here's one of the shots taken during my walk around Portland, right after it rained.

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Nice, job, Mike.

 

[MonikaC]

Beautiful flowers everyone, Monica, I am embarrassed to show my iris after showing yours. These are growing in my yard.

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I bet yours are still standing up straight, though!

 

[Ben Egbert]

I bet yours are still standing up straight, though!

Most of them are. But I was referring to your images. I can isolate the flower and darken or soften the background, but unless I have a good background, I can't get the great ones like the rest of you folks do.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Azaleas in the rain. Ken

 

[MonikaC]

Most of them are. But I was referring to your images. I can isolate the flower and darken or soften the background, but unless I have a good background, I can't get the great ones like the rest of you folks do.

It's masking the subject then blurring the background. I think that Douglas gave you a precis on the tehnique a little while ago. I found it tedious if I didn't have a background that was significantly different from the flower & stem, so I'm learning to compose differently.

 

[Trent Watts]

Here are a few blooms from my archives.

Wild rose

Prairie anemone or more commonly called a 'Crocus' are the first flowers to emerge in the spring on the prairies.

Not sure a nearly dead dandelion counts as a flower..... Oh well.

Growing in the back alley.

 

[JimFox]

Here are a few blooms from my archives.

Wild rose
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Prairie anemone or more commonly called a 'Crocus' are the first flowers to emerge in the spring on the prairies.
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Not sure a nearly dead dandelion counts as a flower..... Oh well.
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Growing in the back alley.
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Those are really great Trent! That last one is one i don't recognize.

 

[JimFox]

Somewhere in New Mexico I captured this on Friday.

 

[Trent Watts]

Nice shot Jim. This looks just like a plant in New Zealand (I lived there years ago for a bit). It was called a Red Hot Poker Plant. Wonder if it is the same species?

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice shot Jim. This looks just like a plant in New Zealand (I lived there years ago for a bit). It was called a Red Hot Poker Plant. Wonder if it is the same species?

Also known as Torch Lily - we have been growing them in our gardens for decades. Very hardy plant that thrives in a wide variety of environments.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Good one, Jim. I also know it as a red-hot poker.