Fujifilm NikonF3

Focus merge of a Hibiscus 'Peach Blow' flower. With Covid about, we've planted many ornamental plants & native shrubs in our garden to keep myself entertained at home.

Olympus digital camera

Plant a mixed packet of Ranunculus bulbs & you have countless hours of macro photography in your backyard. So many different colours and shapes & sizes.

It has the anthers to my questions.

Common Milkweed [Asclepias syriaca]

Photographed October 16, 2014 at Grass Lake Preserve, located in Snail Lake Regional Park, Shoreview, Minnesota U.S.A.

www.ramseycounty.us/sites/default/files/Parks%20and%20Rec...

Equipment used: Sony Alpha SLT-A58 and Sony SAL 75-300mm lens and focus rail mounted on Focal tripod.

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Gardens by the Bay (Singapore)

Sakura Matsuri

Gardens by the Bay (Singapore)

Proteaceae - Australia

Rosemary Grevillea

Shown: Open flower and opening flower buds

Photographed in San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California

Between the spring bulbs in flower & the native bushes in flower, I'm loving the macro lens.

Gardens by the Bay (Singapore)

Today winter came back no one expected that strong hit, spring gone and not nice things happened. That is spring living on edge, why not a flower?

I love exploring my little garden when it has rained to see what I can create.

with full set of generic EOS macro tubes

Australian native flower, grown in my backyard.

Morning sunlight just reaching part of this flower. Flowers that open/close for the sun is amazing.

Day 115.... Finally caught up.

Best viewed @ large size

Rosaceae - Xizang & Yunnan Provinces, China; Bhutan, India, N Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim; Yunnan Province, China provenance of plant above

Syn. Spiraea canescens D. Don var. glabra

Spiraea, gong zhi xiu xian ju

Shown: Multiple inflorescences (umbels) in flower; each umbel to 2 cm diameter; umbels composed of individual flowers to 6 mm diameter

"Spiraea...is a genus of about 80-100 species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia." (Wikipedia)

Details of morphology and distribution:

www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2...

My additional image of S. arcuata:

www.flickr.com/photos/jim-sf/7159986280/in/photostream/

Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California

This video sets to music all the photos in the album. The Album celebrates one million views of my photos.

South African Protea hybrid, grown in my backyard.

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA