Gardens, Flowers, Wildflowers etc.

[buzzsaw]

The orange oriental stargazer

and another, only pink.

showing the Goldfinch the garden

okay, so I like the stargazers.

[Steve Foss]

Now you did it.

Fragrant water lily, Shagawa River

Clintonia budding, Agassa Trail

Pink ladyslippers nuzzling, Stuart River Trail

Five of a kind, bunchberries, Fall Lake

Moss in front, moss behind, Big Moose Trail

[hobbydog]

All my wildflower pics were taken with my 2 mpx Nikon coolpix or Olympus C-700 point and shoot. P&s cameras can take some great macro pics.

Some blazing star

Blazing Star on the tallgrass prairie

Some New England Aster mixed in with some goldenrod

And some wild bergamot

[Tom Wilson]

Buzz,

I absolutely love lillies and those pics are georgeous. They are positively the most beautiful flowers. I will be planting them in my yard next year as I plan on a garden in the spring.

SF,

Love the lady slipper pic.

hobby,

You're pics are showing up red x's tonight.

[Steve Foss]

Thanks, Tom. Darn near titled that one "foreplay," but thought better of it.

I like the garden lilies also. We just planted a dozen different varieties in the new gardens we've cut out in our new place.

buzz: nice angle on that first orange tiger lily. Not the usual look at all.

Here are a few more.

Calla lily, Foss garden

German bearded iris, Foss garden

Pink cultivated variety of Canada anemone, naturalized along Echo Trail

[jonny_redhorse]

great to be able to post these flower pics!...nature at it's finest!....here's a few pics of some lupines I came across this last june up here by Hibbing...just think these are some great wild flowers!

[jonny_redhorse]

had to get this fly "posing"....on a daisey in my back yard....

[jonny_redhorse]

just a couple more!"orange hawkweed" and some ferns.........jonny

fern collage

[buzzsaw]

Thanks Tom and Catfish, that orange oriental stargazer (Lily) is on the slope in my garden so it didn't take a whole lot of effort to think up the blue sky/Oak tree background. I like the contrast myself, it's one of my favorite pics (that I've taken).

I like that Fern pic Johnny! something cool about it. these are all great guys, keep them coming. I was out for a walk in Murphy Hanrehan park last night with the family... dog, two kids in a stroller and the wifey poo.... I of course had my camera and not much was happening... so I let down my guard and put the camera in the bottom of the stroller and minutes later I turned a rounding corner and an Osprey was perched right on a dead tree!!! I was like "STOP" to my dog, wife etc.... of course the bird looked right at us.... starred us down as we sat frozen, except my Golden Retriever... she was fidgity... I slowly went for my camera and I heard a whoosh and looked and it was flying the opposite direction!! I was like arghhhh, that opportunity does not come often. So now every time I go past that tree I will be cursed with the memory of what could have been.

[jonny_redhorse]

Thanks Buzz!.... the beauty of a common fern can really be quite nice photographed I guess...lol!...most people just walk by thse little"scenes" not realizing the beauty right at ther feet!..that's why I love photographing nature...brings one closer to their surroundings!...I think your "stargazers" are fantastic!...I had a couple my self but they didn't grow this year for some reason..I do have a few "asiatic lillies' that I'll be posting in the future...jonny

[buzzsaw]

The following pictures are all from my garden at home.

Hope you have high speed!

[Tom Wilson]

Very nice work here guys--I don't have a whole lot of flower pics, but here's 2 that I thought were nice. One is of the Mom-in-laws garden, the other is a macro shot of a rose bud that I bought mama last year.

[jonny_redhorse]

Great pics Buzz!...nice garden you have in your yard!...I have so many flower pics I don't know where to start so I'm going to post a few "wild flowers " first...here's a few from early june until recent taken close to my house...

"dew berry" these things taste like raspberries on steroids!....

just a single wild rose...

a lone rudbeckia?..this was growing wild in the middle of "no where"....

"bane berries"...took this pic a couple days ago...love the colors...

"rose hips"...

[jonny_redhorse]

A few "blue-flags' from this past spring...another one of my "favorites " each year!..jonny

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[jonny_redhorse]

I have a pic of a red flowered (buds or whatever) shore-growing(apparently likes water) plant (bush) that I came across last weekend while after some critters with my camera...I'm at a loss to as what kind of plant this is ,I've looked into a few different flower manuals that I have ,but it's not in either one.....anyone out there that may know what it may be?....just interested ......jonny

[jonny_redhorse]

just a pic from this last late spring of a wild rose.. love the colors !...nothing "special" with the pic......just..well...nice!...and a pic of some "bunchberries"(dog wood)jonny

[Tom Wilson]

I have to say that some of these are really great guys. I have been inspired. Here's a couple that I've taken recently, but they're nothing special. I have been playing around trying to work with different background possibilities. I am gonna try to get out and take some flower pics this week maybe.

[jonny_redhorse]

nice pics Tom!....here's a pic of some some wild asters "Lingley's"that I came across this morning...

[buzzsaw]

Oops, I almost posted pics that I already have posted....

[WifeKidsandDog]

Some beautiful shots in this thread, thanks for posting your pics.

Here are a couple of wildflower favorites from this year:

Wild geranium:

Columbine (I think)