Sunday Stills: Flowers

 I love to take photos of flowers!  

I decided to show off my Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana ) that is in full bloom.

It is beautiful and quite smelly.

This will give you some idea how massive it is.   I have wire fence (The kind that is small squares rabbit fence maybe) behind it so it finds its way up the side of the grain bin in our yard.  It has been so dry I have been watering it well once a week. 

It will also grow in drifts across the ground if it doesn't find its way upwards. 

This plant has some history...I was gifted two maybe three small cuttings that I rooted and planted..  My friend Faye gave them to me from Annie's house in nearby Osage.  Faye was not sure where Annie got the original seedlings...rumor had it that they came on a wagon in the late 1880's.

I knew Annie years ago...her property was surrounded by Lilac Bushes...the school bus I rode went by her place every morning and night.

More Sunday Stills can be found here. 

Sunday Stills: Macro

 

This weeks Sunday Stills Challenge was Macro. 

This is a Armenian Basket Flower or Centaurea macrocephala.

  From start to finish.

See it looks like a basket.

Then the basket blooms. 

This plant is a hardy perennial in Minnesota.  It thrives in my wild gardens:)

The Bloggers Community Photo Challenge: Flowers

How could I pass up a challenge that has flowers in it! This is my entry for The Bloggers Community Photo Challenge, by the way, you all do a wonderful job..thank you!

This is a photo I took on June 13, 2010.  These are the Minnesota State Flower, the Showy Lady's Slipper, they bloom every year in mid June around Father's Day.  This photo made me smile with the little bug peeking over the top of the flower:)