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A rose bud from my home garden, a John Paul II tea rose hybrid in fact, and it is May but still ... The image was taken in a shaft of the afternoon sun low in the sky and against a shady background.

(Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan for my obscure reference to Ruddigore in the title).

Active Assignment Weekly Challenge:Something New

I pointed the camera down onto my large pot plant, I pulled away some flowers to find the buds beneath..

It's A'bud time

Macro Mondays theme is "green." I present to you the flower bud of a Zinnia.

Kew Gardens.

Willow Buds have started to Bloom.

Details of a poppy bud in the garden

In the background you can see the leaves and flower stems. It’s at least 25yo and is a huge plant.

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine

鎌倉・鶴岡八幡宮

Bud flower during spring time.

Vakantie Noorwegen, juli/aug 2016

NL: Scherpe fijnstraal

E: Blue Fleabane (Bitter Fleabane)

F: Vergerette âcre

D: Scharfes Berufkraut

NO: Vanlig bakkestjerne

Wetenschappelijk: Erigeron acer (Erigeron acris)

Familie: Composietenfamilie, Asteraceae (Compositae)

Geslacht: Erigeron, Fijnstraal

Komt voor in gematigde en koudere streken op het noordelijk halfrond.

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I think Bud got a bit warm

Miniature Agapanthus revisited. The head of buds in the earlier shot had opened giving a new perspective on photo so thought another photo was in order.

Perennial Shasta daisy flowers every year. I managed to rescue a few plants that had been sprayed with weed killer last year. Yes, my husband.

macro of a geranium

Flowers with their buds are today's theme. This shot of a Dandelion with a bud.

by the wall in The Master's Garden, St. Cross

Bud

For a fairer world

Russia. Moscow.

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Dahlia bud will take a few days for the petals to colour up and open.

Macro Mondays 'layer' theme.

This tulip bud measures approx 1.5" in length

Found this bud at the Atlanta Botanical Garden during the golden hour.

A macro shot of a schlumbergera bud for Crazy Tuesday

Orchid buds for the Crazy Tuesday challenge, "flower buds."

This weeks challenge was challenging indeed. It snowed pretty much all last week and it was 19 degrees F this morning so I had to raid a flower shop to find any sort of bud.

Happy Crazy Tuesday!

A Hibiscus bud almost ready to bloom. Photo taken at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in Des Moines, Iowa.

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At Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT.

A garlic bud developing among the leaves

La Ceja, Colombia

There are about 250 different species of pelargoniums and hundreds of newer cultivars. Most of these species are indigenous to South Africa, and are found mainly - although not exclusively - along the east and west coasts and the Cape peninsula.

lifeisagarden.co.za/articles/pelargoniums-on-parade#.VCii...

This is the flower bud of giant scabious or cephalaria gigantea. Later on it will be a magnet for bumble bees, but for now, it's the prettiest bud I know.

A very late flower bud.

7DOS geometry - spheres, lines

Located : The Kyoto Botanical Garden.