Don Sutherland's photos with the keyword: Flower

A Parrot Tulip at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—May 3, 2025. Processing and cracked, painterly green background was created to provide the feel of a 17th-century Dutch still life painting. Against the background, the tulip becomes a portrait of life’s intensity.

Parrot tulip at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)-May 7, 2023. The photo was processed using an artistic texture. This singular red flower reveals a fiercely burning passion for life.

Lily-flowering Tulip (Tulipa ‘Mickey Mouse’) at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—May 3, 2025

Close-up of a tulip at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—April 27, 2024

Close-up of a Cosmos bipinnatos 'Apollo Lovesong' flower at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—June 8, 2024. Nineteenth Century American poet Anna Hubbard Mercur wrote of the Cosmos flower, “The world’s fair flower am I, Cosmos by name; From Paradise…I came…” At the beginning of summer, the Cosmos flower is among nature’s gifts that beautify the sun-soaked and sometimes steamy landscape. In the sun’s blazing heat, it is a refreshing gift to the eyes.

Northern Blue Flag Iris with a bee at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—May 25, 2024

Detail of a poppy at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—April 21, 2024. Shirley Hibberd’s Familiar Garden Flowers wrote of poppies as follows: “No more interesting flower is to be found in the garden than the poppy, and a certain few kinds are extravagantly beautiful, though lamentably short-lived.” One of those “certain few kinds” of poppies is the “blazing red poppy” that, when present in large numbers, “suggests that we are riding through…seas of fire…”

Detail of a Spider Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum ‘Chesapeake’) at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—October 8, 2011