Poppy seedpod
One of my favourite flowers to photograph
Elegance
It tickles!
Complete with tiny rooster weather vane
Deep pink Peony
Lest we forget
Overflowing with colour
Moving into fall
Gas Plant / Dictamnus albus 'Purpureus'
Painted Daisy / Chrysanthemum coccineum
Mullein / Verbascum thapsus
Colour to warm the heart and soul
The beauty of old age
Vibrant colour to warm us all up
Beetle necklace
Golden
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Grain elevator with a difference
Someone just couldn't resist : )
Time to reveal
Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea
Sparkling in the sunlight
Pink or Showy lady's-slipper / Cypripedium reginae
Face to the sun
Elegant beauty
Cornflower
Christmas colours in July
Summer Iris display
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Lily macro
Long-billed ice bird
Ice is nice
Another day closer to spring
The donkeys with reflector eyes
Get well, Rachel
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Remembering the warmth of summer
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Busy little bee
Vibrant
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Beware those icy fingers
Embracing the sun
Dianthus sp.
Sweet little garden ornament
Delicate colours of summer
Poppy art
Springtime colour
Another day closer
Just a splash of colour
Datura flower?
A little corner of Reader Rock Garden
Siberian Squill
From days gone by
Popular with the Aphids
Floral beauty
Pink Sundae / Salvia viridis
Beauty lasts
Spider on Strawflower
Giant Scabius with purple bokeh
Hepatica
Ready to unfurl
A gorgeous splash of colour
Surrounded by beauty
Overtaken by nature
Sunflowers and a red barn
All decked out
Bursts of colour
An ornamental grass
Cheery bokeh - Salvia sp.?
A splash of red
Petunias
Sunflower beauty
Reaching for the sun
A maze of golden Sunflowers
Zonal Geranium, Survivor Pink Batik
Cosmos
Beauty - flower and bokeh
Ruby-throated Hummingbird / Archilochus colubris
Pink Hollyhock / Alcea
Heading into fall
Pink crinkles
First the flower, then the bokeh, then the bee
Yellow Scabious with bee and bokeh
Peony seedpods
Tiny visitor
A breathtaking Lily
Heritage Peony gone to seed
Time to relax
Thirsty little Calliope Hummingbird
Buddha surveying the Peony garden
Fluffed up Pine Siskin
Calliope Hummingbird
Sharp and soft
Welcoming the sun
Eye-catching splash of colour
Diabolo Ninebark
Summer colour
Clematis integrifolia
Olds College Botanic Gardens and Wetlands
Zakyra
Muscari sp., white
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Chionodoxa forbesii, white
Grape Hyacinth / Muscari sp.
Colour for a dreary day
Fritillary
A little blossom flower
Shades of orange
Bleeding hearts
Before and after the petals fall
Sunflower beauty
Purple Iris
Delicate blossom
Elephant's ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Like the sun on a grey, gloomy, rainy day
Double Bloodroot / Sanguinaria canadensis f. multi…
Blossom - pretty in pink
Signs of spring
Blossom
Beautiful Hellebore
The joy of spring
A welcome splash of red
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Moss-rose, Happy Hour Mix / Portulaca grandiflora
This is a telemacro shot of a flower that was maybe an inch and a half across. Photographed at the Calgary Zoo on 29 September 2015. It was growing with several others of various colours.
"Moss rose, Portulaca grandiflora, is a drought and heat tolerant annual native to hot, dry plains in Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. This herbaceous plant in the purslane family (Portulacaceae) is cultivated throughout the world as a garden annual for its showy flowers that bloom all summer long with little care.
Moss rose is a semi-succulent plant that stores water in its fleshy leaves and stems .... The saucer-shaped, rose-like flowers are produced on the stem tips, held facing up above the foliage, opening from buds that resemble little popcorn kernels. They are only open in bright sunlight, closing at night and on cloudy days, but most of the newer hybrids will remain open throughout the day.
The ‘Happy Hour’ series comes in 8 vivid colors with tropical names like banana, coconut, lemon, orange and rosita. The plant has large, double blooms." From The Wisconsin Master Gardener Program website.
wimastergardener.org/?q=MossRose
On 29 September 2015, I had set my alarm clock for 6:30 am so that I could go on a birding walk with friends. Unfortunately, I didn't read the e-mail carefully enough, so hadn't seen that the meeting place was not where I thought. Of course, no one else showed up where I was, so I took myself off to the Calgary Zoo instead. I had planned on going there after the walk, anyway. This may have been the last time I go to the Zoo until next spring, as they have closed "my" parking lot at the west entrance till April next year. The north entrance is way out of my driving comfort zone, especially the drive back home. One of my favourite things at the Zoo is the butterfly room, but the season is over till around next April.
"Moss rose, Portulaca grandiflora, is a drought and heat tolerant annual native to hot, dry plains in Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. This herbaceous plant in the purslane family (Portulacaceae) is cultivated throughout the world as a garden annual for its showy flowers that bloom all summer long with little care.
Moss rose is a semi-succulent plant that stores water in its fleshy leaves and stems .... The saucer-shaped, rose-like flowers are produced on the stem tips, held facing up above the foliage, opening from buds that resemble little popcorn kernels. They are only open in bright sunlight, closing at night and on cloudy days, but most of the newer hybrids will remain open throughout the day.
The ‘Happy Hour’ series comes in 8 vivid colors with tropical names like banana, coconut, lemon, orange and rosita. The plant has large, double blooms." From The Wisconsin Master Gardener Program website.
wimastergardener.org/?q=MossRose
On 29 September 2015, I had set my alarm clock for 6:30 am so that I could go on a birding walk with friends. Unfortunately, I didn't read the e-mail carefully enough, so hadn't seen that the meeting place was not where I thought. Of course, no one else showed up where I was, so I took myself off to the Calgary Zoo instead. I had planned on going there after the walk, anyway. This may have been the last time I go to the Zoo until next spring, as they have closed "my" parking lot at the west entrance till April next year. The north entrance is way out of my driving comfort zone, especially the drive back home. One of my favourite things at the Zoo is the butterfly room, but the season is over till around next April.
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