The ABC game

[scheherazade]

No worries...

There are enough flowers and topics to go around, I should think.

Impatiens are another delightful flower which comes in various forms and colors.

This is a double petal bloom, almost like a miniature rose.

Here is a more familiar 'regular' shaped bloom.

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Jacaranda trees

 

[scheherazade]

What a lovely flowering tree is Jacaranda!

Kniphofia /nɪpˈhoʊfiə/,[1] also called tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily, knofflers or poker plant, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae,[2] that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Herbaceous species and hybrids have narrow, grass-like leaves 10–100 cm (4–39 in) long, while perennial species have broader, strap-shaped foliage up to 1.5 m (5 ft) long. All plants produce spikes of upright, brightly colored flowers well above the foliage, in shades of red, orange and yellow, often bicoloured.[3] The flowers produce copious nectar while blooming and are attractive to bees. In the New World they may attract sap-suckers such as hummingbirds and New World orioles.

The Kniphofia genus is named after Johann Hieronymus Kniphof,[4] an 18th-century German physician and botanist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kniphofia

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

The Lupin! I mean the flower, lupin.

[video=youtube;KbtVaTWs6II]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtVaTWs6II[/video]

Lovely kniphofia. Nice counterpoint to the blue of the jacaranda.

 

[scheherazade]

Lovely Lupins and a delightful video, lol...

So, now I have to find flowers AND entertainment?

Morning Glory, the flower, and a song by the same name.

I like the details in this picture, the evidence of other lifeforms in the ecosystem by the minor damages to the leaves etc.

[video=youtube_share;MgNxopvE3ro]http://youtu.be/MgNxopvE3ro[/video]

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

No, just the flower will do. Thanks. Morning Glories are a favorite of mine.

Nymphaea

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

And Nuphar - Don't you live in the Great White North or some such place?

Nuphar is genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae, with a temperate to subarctic Northern Hemisphere distribution. Common names include water-lily (Eurasian species; shared with many other genera in the same family), pond-lily, and spatterdock (North American species).

(Don't mind the little pollinating person -the other lifeforms in the ecosystem- she has a job to do)

 

[scheherazade]

I think I will add to our 'N' flower collection before I trundle off to sleep.

Nigella is quite a fascinating specimen, in my opinion.

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Ozothamnus can be evergreen shrubs or perennials, with small, slightly aromatic, linear leaves and tiny white flower-heads which may be solitary or in showy terminal corymbs

Why do I always choose the little white ones?

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Peony

It was hard to choose a photo as there are so many great ones.

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

double post - please delete

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Queen Anne's Lace is considered to be a weed by many, and in a picture like this first, she looks it. However Queen Anne's has always been a favorite of mine. They have a rank yet sweet smell to which allergy sufferers must react violently, but I consider their scent the very essence of high summer - the smell of freedom from school!

Small and white! If they don't have these where you live, why then, you ought to move! Bless my homeland forever!

 

[NMSquirrel]

Rafflesia Arnoldi
worlds biggest flower

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Rafflesia Arnoldi
worlds biggest flower

Bonus: it smells like rotting flesh to attract flies!

 

[scheherazade]

I have grown Schizanthus from seed and it does quite well as a potted annual here in the Yukon. The flowers are colorful and profuse which demonstrates why it is commonly called 'Butterfly Bush'.
The following photo is not one of mine. I could only wish, lol...

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Tritonia (Flame Freesia) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family with some 28 species. They are naturally distributed mainly in South Africa, and are closely related to the genus Ixia. They are small bulbous plants up to 8 cm, that appear in great numbers in spring.
The leaves are fan-shaped. The flowers are shades of yellow, orange or brown, sweet-smelling, and gives off a very strong fragrance, especially at night. They are not grazed.
They occur in Bushmanland, the Great Escarpment, the northern, Upper and Great Karoo along ridges and hillsides.
The genus name is derived from the Latin word triton, meaning "weathervane", and alludes to the apparently random arrangement of the stamens in some species.

 

[quinnsong]

Queen Anne's Lace is considered to be a weed by many, and in a picture like this first, she looks it. However Queen Anne's has always been a favorite of mine. They have a rank yet sweet smell to which allergy sufferers must react violently, but I consider their scent the very essence of high summer - the smell of freedom from school!

Small and white! If they don't have these where you live, why then, you ought to move! Bless my homeland forever!

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Love, love, love them! I tend to like a lot of so called weeds anyway.

 

[NMSquirrel]

Love, love, love them! I tend to like a lot of so called weeds anyway.

want some goatheads?

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

Well add to my 'no such thing as' list which includes fish, trees, vegetables and UFOs - weeds. One man's weed is another man's salad ingredient. A weed is so called of any plant growing where it is unwanted. A rose bush is a weed in a tomato garden, and a tomato plant is a weed in a rose garden, innit?

 

[Gremmie]

Well add to my 'no such thing as' list which includes fish, trees, vegetables and UFOs - weeds. One man's weed is another man's salad ingredient. A weed is so called of any plant growing where it is unwanted. A rose bush is a weed in a tomato garden, and a tomato plant is a weed in a rose garden, innit?

Wow... Lately, most posts just haven't had any "depth", that actually did... Thank you for that. So tired of hateful posts... Yes, as of late, have made many of my own. People, please try to play nice, this is only a site on the Internet... I wish everyone here the best... Even Syne. Yeah, you go against everything I believe in, but, I respect your right to your opinion.