Showy
54 creative works found
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These are orange Shasta Daiseys from my garden,
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This is a shot of Rhaphiolepis indica “Pink Lady”. This plant gets used allot in our park systems planter areas. I naturally grows in a ball, doesn’t require very much maintenance and looks good also. It also gets a showy berry that also looks very pretty. This was taken in my mother-in laws backyard.
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This floral photograph is a real Aussie native. Two native flowers against a native fern background, shot by a native Australian photographer! The blue one is a good specimen of Wahlenbergia stricta (Bluebell) and the yellow one is an equally good specimen of Podolepis jaceoides (Showy Podolepis). The photograph was made in the Brushy Mountain in the Werrikimbe National Park, way west of Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia, on a grey summer day while on a photographic safari with a few Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club friends. Fuji S9600: RAW, Macro, f/8 @ 1/125sec, ISO80, Low powered diffused flash, Hand held. / S7RAW & Photoshop CS. Visit my Aussie Wildflower collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more native gems. Enjoy! WILDFLOWERS: BRUSHY MOUNTAIN / (Click the links!) Wahlenbergia stricta & Podolepis jaceoides / Prostanthera nivea /
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‘Smarty Pants’ for the redbubbler that reintroduced this endearing term back into my fickle vocabulary
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Er… not the most original title, but there you go! ;o)
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SHOT IN TREMONT AREA,GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK,TENNESSEE. CANON F-1,100MM MACRO LENS,POLARIZER,FUJICHROME 50,BOGEN TRI-POD,F-16@1/30
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Featured in Only Orchids – November 13, 2008 / Featured in Endangered Plants – November 27, 2008 Showy Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium reginae) Found in damp woods, bogs, and swamps, the orchid can take 16 years to grow and bloom for the first time. The plants can live for 50 years, and tend to flower in late June and early July. Usually, there are one or two flowers per stem, but there can be three or four. The stem has a hairy appearance, and the “hairs” can cause irritation to some people. Although this plant was originally chosen as the provincial flower for Prince Edward Island in 1947, it was so rare on the island that another Lady’s Slipper, C. acaule (moccasin flower or pink lady slipper), has replaced it as the province’s floral emblem. This rare plant has vanished from much of its historical range due to habitat loss. Taken in Manitoba, Canada Photo taken from my calendar “Manitoba Roadside Wildflowers” / / / Laminate Print
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Just a small view of the many, many beautiful roadside wildflowers that can be enjoyed in Manitoba, Canada.
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RED ROSE BUD / Best viewed large. / / / / FEATURED WORKS: / “RED ROSE BUD” was featured in the group THE SCAVENGER HUNT / / / “The elegant beauty of a red rose bud before it opens to full bloom!” / This was my first red rose bud to open this year in my front flower garden. This rose is quite stunning, and it begins to produce its tender buds in the early Spring. It will continue to bloom and produce many showy, beautiful flowers throughout the entire Spring and it will last until late Summer under optimal conditions. / / Poem by: Emily Matthews / WHAT IS A SOUL MATE? / If you have found a smile / that is the sweetest one you’ve known, / If you have heard, within a voice, / the echoes of your own, / If you have felt a touch / that stirs the longings of your heart, / And still can feel that closeness / in the moments you’re apart, / If you have filled with wonder / at the way two lives can blend / To weave a perfect pattern / that is seamless, end to end, / If you believe some things in life / are simply meant to be, / Then you have found your soul mate, / your heart’s own destiny.
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Unknown pitcher or pulpit type flower – please contact me if you know what this is and I can title it properly! It is such a unique flower. Thank you. UPDATE: THANKS to LindaB from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for ID’ing this for me :)
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Featured in Endangered Plants – April 18th, 2009 Photographed in Manitoba on a rainy day. Showy Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium reginae) Found in damp woods, bogs, and swamps, the orchid can take 16 years to grow and bloom for the first time. The plants can live for 50 years, and tend to flower in late June and early July. Usually, there are one or two flowers per stem, but there can be three or four. The stem has a hairy appearance, and the “hairs” can cause irritation to some people. Although this plant was originally chosen as the provincial flower for Prince Edward Island in 1947, it was so rare on the island that another Lady’s Slipper, C. acaule (moccasin flower or pink lady slipper), has replaced it as the province’s floral emblem. This rare plant has vanished from much of its historical range due to habitat loss.
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Featured in Alphabet Soup – April 27th, 2009 Photographed during Annual Orchid Show 2009, Winnipeg, Manitoba / Canon XSi, f/4, 1/60 sec, ISO-200, focal length 100mm
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DUTCH IRIS: SAPPHIRE BEAUTY / Best viewed large. / / Dutch Irises are the elegant ones you always see in fabulous spring flower arrangements. They’re just as elegant in your garden, with tall, stately stems and exquisite flowers in a range of colors. / / I captured this gorgeous bud just before it opened to full bloom in my Grandmother’s yard. / / Common Name: Dutch Iris / Color: Purple and Yellow / Height: Up to 20” tall / Bloom Time: Late spring / Sun/Shade: Full sun to partial shade / Variety: Sapphire Beauty / Advantages: Easy to grow, very popular as a cut flower, and deer resistant / / Photo shot with my DSLR Canon 40D camera.
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White Campion (Silene latifolia) a perennial, usually with a branched crown. Stems are simple and erect, stiff-hairy below and becoming glandular higher up among the flowers. The leaves are basal lance-shaped, up to 10 cm long and 2 cm broad, hairy, slenderly to broadly stalked. Flowers are white and rather showy, several open, spreading clusters with leafy bracts. Flowering time is June – August. Habitat includes drier, wooded or disturbed areas. A European plant that is widely distributed throughout N. America. I found these in an open wooded area near my home in northeast Iowa. ! /
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Sweet William / Dianthus / Dianthus barbatus Best viewed large. This is my first Sweet William Dianthus to bloom this year. With its’ multi-colors of pinks and reds, it is a real beauty in my flower garden! / This Dianthus has vibrant flower clusters that attract hummingbirds and butterflies to my garden! Sweet William loves full sun, sweet, alkaline soil, lots of water, and grows from 10 to 18 inches tall. This “biennial” reseeds readily, providing beautiful flowers year after year. When landscaping, remember that Sweet William Dianthus is an added attraction to any flower or rock garden. It’s showy blooms will give your garden a gorgeous, colorful display when presented at or near the garden’s edge. Photo shot with my Canon EOS 40D camera.
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While visiting family in Northern MN, with a new/old Minolta XE-7 in hand, I went on a hunt for the rare Minnesota state flower to photograph! The first flowers we came upon were “rusty” and wilted, but luckily spotted this beauty in a ditch near a field where my uncle was baling hay and angry dogs were barking madly on the next farm over! I love how the white petals and fuzzy leaves glow in this shot – what a magnificent state flower! These members of the orchid family are rare in MN, and it is illegal to uproot/replant them! They are slow to reproduce in the wild, which is what makes them so rare. These flowers prefer wet, swampy areas to grow. Location: Viking, MN / Scientific Name: Cypripedium reginae
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Caught this moth sunning himself in the morning sun,, I was doing the same,,,,,,,these are orange African Daisies.. they close up at night,, the blossoms last for days,,,, very showy flowers!!!! / This is the first butterfly shot I took that turned out well…. taken at my acreage,,, Gibbons AB panasonic dmc lz7 / f10 / 1/320 sec / iso100 / EV -1 / focal length 17mm
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A welcome blooming (Orchid) I thought it would never bloom
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Clematis from the Greek (klema) for branchlet. / There are over 400 wild varieties of native clematis, in fact most countries in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and to some extent in the southern hemisphere have species of clematis. For example, C. alpina is found in eastern Europe and C. cirrhosa in Mediterranean countries, C. vitalba in Britain, C. montana in India, C. lanuginosa in China, C. patens in Japan, C. aristata in Australia, C. afoliata in New Zealand and C. virginiana in America / Early plant collectors brought examples back to europe, which were soon to enrich it’s flora. One of the first to be introduced to England was C. viticella, which was brought from Spain in 1569. This was followed in 1596 by three other European species, C. cirrhosa, C. integrifolia and C. flammula. They were all used in hybridising programmes to produce new varieties. It was not until the 19th century that the stock for the large flowered clematis, which is so admired today was introduced from China, C. lanuginosa for example and C. patens from Japan. The Victorians took to clematis in a big way and the pioneering nursery of Jackmans once held a list of 343. Unfortunately the then little understood disease wilt, decimated the commercial stocks and it was not until after the second world war that nurseries were once more able to pursue serious large scale propagation. However the legacy of the Victorians does live on, many of the popular large flowered clematis available today come from the last century. /
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Clematis from the Greek (klema) for branchlet. / There are over 400 wild varieties of native clematis, in fact most countries in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and to some extent in the southern hemisphere have species of clematis. For example, C. alpina is found in eastern Europe and C. cirrhosa in Mediterranean countries, C. vitalba in Britain, C. montana in India, C. lanuginosa in China, C. patens in Japan, C. aristata in Australia, C. afoliata in New Zealand and C. virginiana in America / Early plant collectors brought examples back to europe, which were soon to enrich it’s flora. One of the first to be introduced to England was C. viticella, which was brought from Spain in 1569. This was followed in 1596 by three other European species, C. cirrhosa, C. integrifolia and C. flammula. They were all used in hybridising programmes to produce new varieties. It was not until the 19th century that the stock for the large flowered clematis, which is so admired today was introduced from China, C. lanuginosa for example and C. patens from Japan. The Victorians took to clematis in a big way and the pioneering nursery of Jackmans once held a list of 343. Unfortunately the then little understood disease wilt, decimated the commercial stocks and it was not until after the second world war that nurseries were once more able to pursue serious large scale propagation. However the legacy of the Victorians does live on, many of the popular large flowered clematis available today come from the last century. Nikon D60 / Lens: Nikon 18-55mm / f/5.6 1/60 ISO:360
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Showy Fleabane Daisy (Erigeron speciosus) belongs to Aster family (Asteraceae). / Description: Showy Fleabane is distinguished from other perennial fleabanes by its entire leaves (not lobed or toothed) that are well distributed along the full length of the stem. There is no hair on the leaves, except for a sparse fringe along the leaf margin visible under a hand lens. / There are 1-13 flower heads on each flowering stem. / Each flower head has numerous blue/lavender petal-like ray flowers surrounding a golden yellow disk. / Blooming June to early August. / Habitat/Range: foothills, subalpine, alpine. / Some Native Americans used species of Fleabane Daisy for an astringent herb by boiling the root to make a strong tea. The cooled tea was used as an eyewash and to treat diarrhea or childbirth hemorrhage. / Photographed in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
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Top 3 in a Challenge in Endangered or Vulnerable Plants – November 5, 2009 Polemonium, commonly called Jacob’s ladder, is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and also in the southern Andes in South America. Many of the species grow at high altitudes in mountains. They are perennial plants (rarely annual plants) growing 10–120 cm tall with bright green leaves divided into lance-shaped leaflets, and produce blue (rarely white or pink) flowers in the spring and summer. / Although some populations contain hundreds or thousands of plants, many are tiny, and they are often threatened by road maintenance, changes in water level due to human or beaver activity, grazing, and recreational activities, such as ATV use. They may also be threatened by succession from fairly open to more closed habitats. Photographed in Dawson City, Yukon / Canon EOS 50D; Canon 17-85mm lens / /
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If you know what these lovely flowers are called, please let me know. I photographed them in the gardens at A Taste of Alaska Lodge near Fairbanks. They have a beautiful garden in summer with many fascinating antiques, ancient rusted farming equipment and tools, lovely ponds and fountains and a spectacular view over the Tanana River Valley. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 01 August 2007 18:33:53 / Shutter Speed 1/500 Av 11.0 Evaluative Metering ISO 400 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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Mountain Laurel is of the Heath Family, a large evergreen shrub with showy clusters of flowers, and deep pink buds. / Flowers are 3/4-1 inch wide, it grows to a height of about 3-15 feet. / This wildflower blooms from Late May though Mid July in open woodlands and rocky places. / Its range is Quebec and Maine south to Florida, west to Louisiana and north to Indiana. / *Note…as this flower matures, stamens often pop out of corolla pockets or sometimes are dislodges as insects enter the flower at which time it sprays its pollen to the back of the insect. / This plant is also very fire tolerant,and will grow back quickly, it is a long lived plant / Photographed in Mountaindale, NY, USA /
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