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Tulips, Wine Jug and Wrought Iron

A romantic setting with tulips, a large jug and wrought iron, in a sun porch with slate floor.

Pink Crabapple Blossoms

Beautiful tones of pink, magenta, lilac and gold for these blossoms photographed in a crabapple tree, with lovely bokeh background.

Green Love Red Loves Green

Bright red poppy embraced by bright green leaves.

Lollipop Tulips

Glowing backlit yellow, red and purple tulips, resembling translucent lollipops, in a garden with dark stone wall background.

Temple Bells

This is a small cluster of flowers of the Spring-blooming Temple Bells cultivar of pieris japonica, beautiful and fragrant.

Tulip Flames

This beautiful tulip riveted my attention when I saw it today. Have never seen such a color combination with elongated spikey petals. Will try to get it identified soon, I guess it might be a new cultivated hybrid.

Stargazer Lilies square frame

Beautiful 'stargazer' oriental lilies in a vase. Their gently spicy fragrance is as lovely as their looks.

Flamingo Flower

This is a close up photo of lovely curving pink and green arthurium pandola flowers, commonly called flamingo flowers, spade flowers, or boy flowers. Arthurium, native to South America, is a genus of about 800 species, some of which have become popular houseplants in USA.

Lily of the Nile and Hoverfly

Beautiful pink, lavender, purple and gold 'Lily of the Nile', agapanthus headbourne hybrid, dwarfs the tiny hoverfly on the stamen at extreme left. Photographed in early August in a Pennsylvania garden.

Stargazer Lilies rectangular frame

Beautiful 'stargazer' oriental hybrid lilies in a crystal vase. These lilies have a wonderful spicy fragrance as well as spectacular appearance, and reportedly are hardy and easy to grow.

Crabapple Blossoms and Rainy Spring Day

Crabapple tree near Cobbs Creek, suburban Philadelphia.

Misty Autumn Morning By The Pond

A wonderfully peaceful scene unfolds as a foggy morning at a lovely park with large pond, on an unusually warm day in October. This is 'The Willows'. a community park in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Peony Dazzle

Photo in natural daylight of a rain-freshened and glowing white-to-pink peony in a Pennsylvania garden in May.

Ozark Yellow Coneflower

This rare and lovely American wildflower is native only to the Ozark region. Botanical name is Echinacea Paradoxa, the paradox being the yellow flowers of a "purple" species. Photographed in early June in a Pennsylvania garden.

Magnolia Bud and Bloom

One pink magnolia in bloom, another about to bloom, pale green bokeh background.

En Pointe

With the grace of a ballerina, the Spider Lily dazzles. Also known as Peruvian Daffodil. Photographed on the last day of Spring in a Pennsylvania garden.

Bright Bird Of Paradise

Native to South Africa, these spectacular flowers were introduced to Europe in the lat 1700's. Official flower of The City of Los Angeles.

Floral Dancer

tiny graceful bloom

Pale Delicate Lovely

Pale yellow diaphanous hollyhock flowers in July in a Pennsylvania garden

Rain-Kissed Rose

Photo of lovely pink and white rose, and rosebud, taken between rain showers in May in a Pennsylvania garden.

Newborns

Lovely twin South African Foxglove flowers, newly blooming in a Pennsylvania garden.

Sweet Hearts

Array of lovely bleeding heart flowers and bokeh background.

Oh So Alluring

With such alluring petals, prominently exposed reproductive organs, and even a phallic bud thrust overhead, this gorgeous lily is no shrinking violet and certainly won't lack for eager pollinators! :-)

Fuchsia Delight

Vintage Romantic

Red Persian Buttercups (Ranunculus) and pale yellow Snapdragons, in full bloom, against a fading stuccoed garden wall.

Bee Balm - Not

Strikingly hued blue & purple centaurea montana blooming in mid-May in Pennsylvania, at Chanticleer Garden. Also called bachelor's button, resembles bee balm ( monarda)somewhat.

Longwood Gardens Rose

Lovely and very fragrant hybrid tea rose at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania.

Just Hanging Out

A lovely pair of red and purple fuchsia flowers, just hangin' out in a Pennsylvania garden. Photographed in early April.

Christmas Rose in Water

Portrait of a beautiful helleborus niger hybrid floating in dark water, "Christmas Rose". Though not in the rose family, the flower blooms in Winter and early Spring, and got its name from a legend that it sprouted in the snow from the tears of a young girl who had no gift to give the Christ child in Bethlehem. Closely related to helleborus orientalis, the "lenten rose".

My Wild Xmas Rose

Portrait of a beautiful helleborus niger hybrid, "Christmas Rose". Though not in the rose family, the flower blooms in Winter and early Spring, and got its name from a legend that it sprouted in the snow from the tears of a young girl who had no gift to give the Christ child in Bethlehem. Closely related to helleborus orientalis, the "lenten rose".

Cheerful Warmth of Spring

Daffodils and forsythia cuttings in a vase against a golden wallcelebrate the life-renewing warmth of Spring.

Burst of Glory

Chionodoxa flowers (Greek for 'glory of the snow') are small and bright, on short stems, and bloom in early Spring. They are native to Eastern Mediterranean alpine area and often bloom during snowmelt. Photographed in a Pennsylvania garden in early April.

Spring Fling, tall view

A bright and cheerful cascade of daffodils and peony tulips, with pearl hydrangea petals at lower right.

Soon To Be Quadruplets

Three beautiful oriental lily flowers surround a nearly open bud, photographed against deep green foliage. The complex red-to-magenta, white-trimmed, petals and striking copper, green and gray pollination structures can be seen in great detail.

Forest Fling Anemone Style

A sprightly mixed-cultivar array of colorful poppy anemonies, and what looks to be the trunk of a crape myrtle, in a wonderful indoor garden.

Poppy-Flowered Anemone

Close up view of a beautiful anemone coronaria flower, this cultivar with pure white petals and inside of green-tinted gold. Common names for this lovely species are poppy anemone and poppy-flowered anemone.

Floral Spectacular

Macro view of spectacular twin oriental hybrid lilies, showing their complex graceful red and white petals, and amazing stamens and pistils resembling praying mantises.

Only You

The amazing Himalayan Blue Poppy, meconopsis betonicifolia. This is the first open one I've seen facing up...no doubt it will turn downwards as time passes. These wonderful flowers are native to high altitudes and are seen by most of us only at certain times in botanical gardens.

Heavenly Blue on Blue

The incomparable Himalayan Blue Poppy, meconopsis betonicifolia, against a sea of deep blue cineraria daisies.

Rain-Blessed Rose

Delicious color patterns sprinkled with raindrops on a Pennsylvania rose. Photographed in the rain on June 4.

Tiffany Wings And Flowers

Monarch butterfly feasting on verbena nectar in August, perhaps fueling up for a long flight to Mexico. The wings remind me of Tiffany glass, and I like them against the delicate pink flowers and green bokeh.

Creme

Creamy sunlit roses against a white background.

Tulip Springtime Memories

Array of beautiful bicolor tulips, and shorter daffodils.

Floral Candles

Beautiful Siam Tulips -- curcuma alismatifolia -- in a Pennsylvania garden. Native to Thailand and Cambodia, they are members of the ginger family.

From The Far East

Beautiful, exotic Curcuma Alismatifolia, member of the ginger family, native to Thailand and neighboring countries. Known as Siam Tulip, Queen Tulip, and Summer Tulip. Photographed in a Pennsylvania garden.

Siam Tulips

Beautiful flowers of Curcuma Alismatifolia, member of the ginger family, also called Summer, and Queen, Tulip. They are native to Thailand and neighboring countries.

Star Lily

Photo of a beautiful Stargazer Lily, with digital white vignette.

Soft Pink Energy

Array of beautiful cala lilies. Lovely vibes for any room.

Two Tulips and Stone

Two warm-colored tulips touching in front of stone wall.

Luminous Red Tulips

Beautiful backlit and glowing red tulips in the garden in early April in Pennsylvania. Half of all proceeds donated to St Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Lily Nocturne

Close up photo of part of a beautiful pink and white lily and green pods, against a dark foliage background, as if at night.

Curves

Graceful Cala Lily, simple white in a sea of green.

Lovely Stargazers

Looking regally red and festive, bright multicolored Stargazer lilies photographed at Longwood Gardens.

Valentines

Cuddling Iris and Tulip

Dark Day, Bright Lilies!

Lovely lilies photographed on a very overcast day in June in a Pennsylvania garden. Flash and center-weighted metering helped create the startling contrast.

Pink Petals

Cropped photo of a lovely tulip showing only the delicately shaded graceful petals. Photographed in late April in a Pennsylvania garden.

Frilly Queensland Tulip

Beautifully sunlit pink, white, yellow tulip flower with serrated edged petals. Photographed in late April in a Pennsylvania garden.

Exuberant Parrot Tulip

Yellow and orange with sprays of green, this "Parrot" tulip flower is an energizing delight for the eyes! Photographed in late April in a Pennsylvania garden. Half of proceeds donated to St Judes Research Hospital for Children.

Vintage Rembrandt Tulip

Beautiful wine and butter colored tulip. Photographed in late April in a Pennsylvania garden. Black background.

Subtle Beauty

Soft and gentle image of a lovely pink-magenta and white tulip blooming in our garden.

Tulips, Wallflowers, Wall

Blazingly sunlit yellow-orange tulips and purple wallflowers (erysimum) in front of a garden's stone wall. photographed in mid-April in Pennsylvania.

Peaches and Cream Tulips

Beautifully backlit tulips in a neighbors garden, early April, in Pennsylvania.

Tulip Rush

Dynamic wave of tulips in bloom at Chanticleer garden near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early May.

A Lot of White Tulips

Blooming white tulips in a Pennsylvania garden inApril

Hooray for Spring!

Brilliant red-orange tulips under dazzling sunlight, on a neighbor's lawn on March 24, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Half of proceeds donated to St Jude's Research Hospital for Children.

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Luminous Tulips

A crowd of beautiful yellow and orange tulips aglow, backlit by the sun. Striking turquoise and black background.

Longwood Lilies

Beautiful and fragrant pink Stargazer(?) lilies, photographed at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania.

Dazzling in the Rain

Dazzling shapes and colors of these beautiful lilies in a Pennsylvania garden on a rainy July day. 50% of proceeds donated to the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education.

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Hallelujah Lilies!

These liilies were planted by the wall of a house of worship. Don't they appear to be hailing a higher power?

Luscious Lily

A ravishingly lovely Stargazer lily with lusciously pink petals. Photographed in mid-July in Pennsylvania.

Lily

Photographed at it's lovely peak in a friend's garden.

Lillies!

Beautiful cultivars in a friend's garden

Dancing Lilies!

In a neighbor's garden!

Glowing Tulips, Cool Grape Hyacinths, Waving Grass

Lovely array of tulips and hyacinths with ornamental grass. April 17,2009 at Chanticleer Garden near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lao Tzulip

Although I humorously combined the name of the ancient Chinese sage, Lao Tzu, with the displayed tulip flower in which a robed human form is suggested, no disrespect is intended. I have the highest reverence for his teachings via the Tao Te Ching. ( my favorite translation is by Witter Bynner )

Between a Rock & a Hard Place

Lovely tulip array!

Luminous Tulip

Translucent, luminous. beautiful.

Sunlit Tulip

Beautiful variegated tulip

Tulip!

vibrant hot pink, green & white tulip.

Twin Tulips!

Almost abstract-appearing photo of two beautiful variegated purple and white tulips.

Red Tulip and Guest

tiny garden spider checking out a blooming tulip in early May in a Pennsylvania garden.