Columbine and hosta leaves

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Bearded irises in my garden

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Lotsa purple! Siberian irises, Columbine and Spiderwort

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Daffodils!

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Nikon D850 / Nikkor 105mm micro

Irises at Green Spring Gardens

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Bleeding hearts

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(Nikon D850, Nikkor 105mm micro lens)

Bearded irises galore in my garden (bouquet #1)

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Bearded iris blooming in my garden

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Stack ‘o butterflies

I think the top and bottom ones might be Clouded Sulphurs, middle one is a Variegated Fritillary; feasting on Purple coneflowers (with purple Lantana in the background)

Nikon D850, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, 1/250 sec, f/14, ISO 400

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Canna blooms

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Canna blooms

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Geranium ‘Roxanne’

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Blooming in my garden: Gladiolas

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Rudbeckia blooms

I spent quite a bit of time photographing this variety of Rudbeckia at Green Spring Gardens this past Saturday morning. The light was so beautiful! I experimented with a variety of angles, compositions and creating extreme bokeh in order to best capture what I saw.

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Delphinium

Is there a more stunning color combination than purple-blue against bright green? I think not.

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They paved paradise, put gladiolas in the parking lot…

After dinner this evening, we found several clusters of lovely gladiolas (in five different colors) blooming in a tiny parking lot strip (only about 3 feet deep by 12 feet wide) of a local Thai restaurant in Springfield. Michael R. held the diffuser for Michael P. and me so we could get some shots of these beauties. He also served as traffic lookout because we had to stand beside the curb in an increasingly busy intersection to get the shots!

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How’s this for some eye-poppin’ color?

‘Kim’s Knee High’ Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) against a backdrop of False Cypress (possibly Gold Thread or maybe Lemon Thread?). It was just too much color to resist!

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