Such beauty when looking closely at native plants.

It is raining today, 911 left all of us in tears, only seem's fitting for today's anniversary of the worst mass murder on our soil's history! Yet with a little light there is still HOPE!!

Transparency are the best way to capture high resolution Images at Low Cost.

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

Day 100…365 days of macro photography with The OM System TG-7 compact

Only 265 days to go

It has the anthers to my questions.

Best viewed @ large size

Iridaceae - China

Bamboo Iris

"Iris confusa, also known as the Bamboo iris, is a species of iris found in Western China.

"The flowers of the species may range from white to a soft lavender in color, with orange-yellow crests and purple dots. The plant's broad, shiny leaves are attached to bamboo-like stems..." (Wikipedia)

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

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.

Gardens by the Bay (Singapore)

Orchid Extravaganza

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