renwillis , to Maryland, USA
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Garden update!!! Picked up some more flowers for our front yard! Ain’t it purty?????

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Ornamental Allum

embunnik , to Photography
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PLEASE: can anyone help ID this butterfly?

Similar in size to an oak hairstreak, but pattern looks different to me. Or maybe just within-species variation?

Location: just outside San Antonio, TX

Boosts are appreciated!! 💚

BjornIdle , to Random stuff
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The flower from Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), growing happily in the garden of a place we were staying

cohanf , to pagan group
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@pagan @paganism
We've just passed in the Latvian tradition- all based on the Cross-quarter day between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice.
In the Latvian division of the year, this marks the beginning of the
of the land ++ are associated with this time. I have a blog post with pics + vids of bees, flowers etc and link to another post about the roots of the Latvian celebration.
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/04/blog-post.html
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/05/usins-day-spring-celebration-welcoming.html

A whitish Crocus flower generousy veined with purple, and bright orange sexy parts. A tiny dark wild bee has just climbed out of the centre, and is at the top of a petal, some pollen grains clinging. The title text: "Time of Flowers May Day; Ūsiņš and Ziedu Māte: a God and Goddess to bring Green, Flowers & Bees" is over the image in alternating lines of orange and mid-violet-red in varying font sizes.
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    • renwillis , to Random stuff
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    Rainy walks with my partner. 💕

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    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    The Open House was a good one, one couple interested. 🤞🏼

    We're done in, my COVID shot arm is sore, so it's time for tonight's dopey gif.

    Only 15 more days til we drive up! 🇨🇦

    Have a peaceful evening, everyone.

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    @GottaLaff 👍🤞

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    Oh, and to those of you who have been kind enough to ask, I just got word that the house showing today was 👎🏻. This day can’t end soon enough.

    sfcelestemakrevis ,
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    @GottaLaff So sorry to hear, Laffy...just remember it only takes ONE person to buy your house. It will happen! (Been there too many times to count! We sold our house on the Big Island while Kilauea volcano 🌋 was erupting big time...)

    feverspell , to Random stuff
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    Next spring, I will have to wrap chicken wire around my peony bushes. The blooms are so heavy, they cause the whole stem to droop down, which basically ruins them. I was able to cut some for my room and for the spot next to my mom's ashes, but most of what's already bloomed can't be used. Which sucks, because they're beautiful.

    cohanf , to plants group
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    @plants I'm back to 3 day working weekends, long brutal days, so weekend posts will tend to be on Monday or Tuesday...lol Last week saw plenty of wet heavy and some
    are coming along anyway mostly in the garden + wild catkins and first wildflower (not shown here, yet) -this week: cool/rain then mid-20sC!
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    Photo collage in 6 panels 3 across top, 3 bottom framed in dark magenta purple in centre, blue-grey bottom, pale grey top. Top left closed yellow Crocus sticking out of snow with a bare rock to one side. Centre : dangling cluster of balsam poplar catkins, those not fully open are a deep crimson! two branches crossed in the background make an X. Right Cardamine stems with partly unfurled palmate leave and purple flower buds above snow I just pulled them out of. Bottom patch of low yellow flowered plant among rocks with bits of clinging snow , also on the grass behind. Centre Deep violet flowers- should be much more intense, camera doesn't understand them! Right: Aspen catkins still with a bit of fuzz, but looking plump and green as they develop seed, grey trunks and sky in the background.
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    • emselimahmed , to Photography Akan
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    Royal poinciana trees with flowers along the road in my village. 🥀 🥀 🌹

    @bengali_convo @mastindia

    Royal poinciana trees with flowers along the roadside at a village in Bangladesh.

    renwillis , to Random stuff
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    and our garden is coming along nicely!

    jblue , to plants group
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    Papilio palamades, Palamedes swallowtail

    Cirsium horridulum, bristle thistle (aka horrid thistle)

    #花 @plants

    A butterfly with black and yellow patterned wings perched on a yellow thistle flower with thistles leaves, buds and other foliage in the background. The butterfly is facing left and has its proboscis poking inside the top spines of the flower. The thistle flower is a green ball of spines with small spiny arugula-like leaves wrapped around the bud. On top of the green ball are numerous yellow spikes.
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    • appassionato , to photography group
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    Spring awakening by Uwe Heinze

    https://uwhe-arts.tumblr.com/

    @photography


    appassionato , to photography group
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    A girl walks among blooming tulips in a park, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine May 1, 2024. REUTERS/Alina Smutko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    @photography
    @ukraine


    jblue , to plants group
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    Strongly considering collecting seeds and planting these around trees as revenge on squirrels for digging up seedlings and stealing fruit. 😈… 🐿️🐿️🐿️😱☠️

    Cirsium horridulum, bristle thistle (aka horrid thistle)

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of the yellow and brown thistle center showing intricate details and textures. The stamens are deep in the center and look like the end of spaghetti noodles squeezed into a bunch.
    A wider shot of the thistle. It is actually a very large plant. The leaves look like arugula if it were massively thorny and could be used as a weapon. The rolled up hedgehog of a flower sits on top of this giant vicious plant.

    jblue , to plants group
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    Sugar magnolia snap pea

    Seed-grown white pomegranate flower, germinated late spring 2020

    Cara Cara orange is re-flowering after flowering too soon this winter. All the winter-set fruit fell off and there aren’t many blooms this spring.

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of a branch with light green leaves and a red bud against a blurred natural background. The flower bud looks like a tiny apple.
    Close-up of a white flower surrounded by green leaves. The light is casting directly on the white pedals so that the pedals appear to be glowing white. There are five long, thin, white petals, arranged in a star, and it has a prominent green pistil and long thin white stamens closely arranged circling upright around the stamen. The filaments are yellow.

    waysandbeing , to Glasgow
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    💐💙 to .. 2nd year in : you're GORGEOUS!

    So to be here 🌸🙏🏽🌸

    Also, BIG for my apartment, which lets me see 2 kinds of out back & beauty out front even if I'm not well enough to go out 🙌🏽

    Happy (anglicised as 👌🏽)! 🌿🕯️🔥🎊🥳

    @chronicillness @mecfs

    A square photo in colour shows a view out the French doors of Maitreya's apartment. The white curtains are open, & of the French doors is open slightly, allowing the light from the first day of the month of May enter the room, gently. The carpet is beige, & the photo is from the perspective where Maitreya sits on the floor, across the room, to the left of the doors. Out the doors can be viewed a warm-blue sky with a slight cloudy haze yet the day is still a sunny one. The edge of the beige-sandstone tenement apartment building across the street can be viewed, & as well the beige-brick newer apartment building behind the older one. The moment is warm yet breezy, a moment of pause & calm.

    A square photo in colour shows a Glasgow courtyard on a mostly-sunny, partly-cloudy day. In the courtyard, there are many trees, some with leaves, some with flowers & leaves, & some still with neither, as the photo was in April. The sunlight, bright yet still cool, is filtering through the clouds & then through the leaves & flowers. The moment is calm & happy, with a sense of real contentment.
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    • stefano , to Photography
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    For this , I want to express my gratitude to the wonderful Nature, which consistently offers us breathtaking spectacles, whether in the form of lights, colors, scents, or sounds.

    theTractor , to gardening group Italian
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    Alium roseum

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    Camminavo in un prato e trovai un bulbo.

    Questo inverno l'ho messo a dimora ed ora eccolo qui, bello e profumato.

    È l'alium roseum, per le sfumature rosate dei petali. In Toscana lo chiamano "aglio di serpe" o "aglio viperino".
    Si trova selvatico sui bordi delle strade di campagna e nei campi, ovunque nella regione mediterranea.
    In questa pianta i fiori sono raccolti in dense ombrelle, le quali sono inizialmente avvolte da spire papiracee.

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    1/2 ⬆️⬆️⬆️

    @gardening @plants

    Talvolta le ombrelle contengono anche piccoli bulbilli che, cadendo, possono dare origine a nuove piante. (Guardate bene la foto nel precedente tooth, ci sono!)

    CURIOSITÀ: Le cellule intatte di tutti gli Allium contengono alliina, un amminoacido inodore che per azione dell'enzima alliinasi, liberantesi con la rottura del bulbo, si trasforma in allicina, composto fortemente odoroso.

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    2/3 ⬆️⬆️⬆️

    @gardening @plants

    CURIOSITÀ: Le cellule intatte di tutti gli Allium contengono alliina, un amminoacido inodore che per azione dell'enzima alliinasi, liberantesi con la rottura del bulbo, si trasforma in allicina, composto fortemente odoroso.

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    fergabell , to Random stuff
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    I need help identifying this small, woodland flower. I have seen the leaves everywhere but I think this is the first time I've finally seen a flower - so delicate and hangs like a lantern. Southern Ontario woodlands

    jblue , to plants group
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    Please like these photos.

    This bug was so fast. Followed it around for 15’ and these were the best pics I got. Oh well.

    Hemaris deffinis, snowberry clearing (aka hummingbird moth) on Salvia lyrata, lyre leaf sage

    @plants

    A hummingbird moth feeding on lavender tube-shaped flowers with a green background. There are new buds of flowers at the top of the pic and those are dark purple. The thorax is very fuzzy and yellow, and the abdomen is black and fuzzy. Its wings are clear but with black veins. And the photo they’re rather blurry because they beat very fast. In this pic, the moth has pulled away and its proboscis is hanging out in front.
    A hummingbird moth with black and yellow coloring hovering near purple flowers. This is a download facing pic. Its head is in the flower.
    Close-up of a hummingbird moth feeding on purple flowers against a green grassy background. This pic the hummingbird moth is facing right with its head in a flower.

    A hummingbird moth feeding on lavender tube-shaped downward-facing flowers with a green, grassy background. The thorax is very fuzzy and yellow, and the abdomen is black and fuzzy. Its wings are clear but with black veins. And the photo they’re rather blurry because they beat very fast. The moth in this pic has its whole head in the flower and his clasping onto the flower from the sides.
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    • WesternInfidels , to Photography

    The bleeding-heart flowers in my neglected "garden," which for over a decade have only grown taller and more numerous every season, are nowhere to be seen this year. Maybe because the tree that had once created a shady corner for them is also gone.

    Sometimes I feel like life is just one damn ending after another.

    Here's how they looked last spring.

    thegardendude , to gardening group
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    Gorgeous trailing nasturtium I came across yesterday at the Maymont Herbs Galore plant sale! @gardening

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