MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wishing all my blogger friends a Merry CHRISTmas and may all of you be richly blesssed in 2011!

On vacation ...

Hello my friends, I will be visiting my homeland for about a month. I really appreciate you dropping by and will return your visit when I get back. Hope you all have a good and pleasant summer!

Macro Saturday & Today's Flowers

My entry for Macro Flowers Saturday and TF is:

Trillium These are a gift from nature; they just showed up among my wild ferns one day. From Wilkipedia, this is called, Trillium Grandiflorum, meaning flower among the leaves. Also, seeds of trillium are spreads by ants, the ants extract the seeds, eat the elaiosomes, and throw away the seeds where they germinate in rich soil.


I guess they live up to their name, they came in 3's ... 3 leaves, 3 petals & 3 showed up among my ferns. ;)


According to Mr. Wilkipedia, the white flowers will turn pink as they age like this one.

Today's Macro Flowers

My entries for Today's Flowers and my first time participation in Macro Flowers Saturday... poppies.

Today's Flowers

These plant's names may sound like a disease but they sure are lovely, don't you think?
These are some of my indoor plants and my entry for Today's Flowers.


STREPTOCARPUS





KOHLERIA

Today's Flowers

I WISH I could stop my car and take pictures of all the breathtaking blooms this time of year. This one below was taken at the parking lot of a mall. There are hundreds of these beauties around our area. (click images to enlarge)

Here's a close-up.

This is my forsythia gone wild! They shine every spring!

... a close-up.

Talking about wild, here's a flowering quince competing for light with the forsythia.

... a close-up.

Our apple tree..

close-up

I think this is crab apple?


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Today's Flowers

AFTER months of cold temps and snow, there's nothing like seeing daffodils bloom in the spring. Daffodils, tulips, crocuses, forsythias and hyacinths are plants that yell, Spring! Pictured below are my daffodils collection, they are spectacular in the garden and delightful in bouquets. What I love about daffodils is that they require very little care, they multiply every year and deer won't bother them.





double daffodils ...



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