Regional Parks Botanical Garden, Tilden Park.
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Category Archives: Wildflowers
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Crocosmia
I first saw this flower in Oregon and added it to my own garden some years later. It grows from corms and self propagates. In New Zealand it is considered an environmental weed. Photographed at a school near my home.
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Buckwheat & the Bee
Honeybees again, this time on Buckwheat. Amazingly busy and resourceful creatures.
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Mustard & Bee
All day long honeybees worked the mustard behind our tent while we stayed at Montaña de Oro. While it’s fairly easy to get photos of them, it’s harder to get nice ones. All too often, I end up with perfectly … Continue reading
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Golden Yarrow
One of the flowers that gives Montaña de Oro (Mountain of Gold) State Park its name is Golden Yarrow, eriophylum confertiflorum. It was blooming in abundance during our visit last week.
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A glorious weed ..er.. Wildflower
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM, 1/125 @ f/5.6 I call it a weed only because I can’t identify it and it’s growing in a vacant lot. It’s very intricate and seems to have multiple Fibonocci … Continue reading
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Canon PowerShot S3 IS + 6.0-72.0 mm, 1/250 @ f/4
Botanical Garden Honeybee
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200 @ f/6.3 Tilden Park Botanical Garden.
Industrious workers
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200 @ f/6.3 I spent a few hours at the Botanic Garden in Tilden Park today and the bees were working very hard. I wish they would slow down.
Flagstaff Arboritum
We visited the Flagstaff Arboritum and had a great time. The butterflies were abundant and quite absorbed in their work, giving me a chance to get close.
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Tiny Butterfly
_MG_6008 uploaded by admin. This little guy was perhaps 1/2″ across. He/She stopped for just a moment and this was the better of two images Canon EOS 5D Mark II+EF100mm f/2.8 Macro – f/8@1/100
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Glorious Weeds
Glorious Weeds uploaded by admin. As Spring approaches in my neck of the woods, even the weeds look good. Lupine (Bluebonnets to my Texan friends) looks especially good contrasted against Mustard. Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro … Continue reading