flora

Garden Path by the Sea ~ Maine Coast
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~ Auguste Rodin
seacoast garden path garden path lupines flowers sea Atlantic Ocean Maine Eastern Seaboard purple lupinus lupin plant legume family ornamental plant food source perennial bluebonnets quaker bonnets legume macro flower
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Clematis ~ Huron River and Watershed
“The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.” ~ Michael Pollan
Clematis vine clematis evening Huron River and Watershed flower vine plant pattern purple trellis garden buttercup climbing plant vigorous lianas woody twisting curling queen.of.climbers perennial macro
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Pink Peony and Friend ~ Huron River Watershed
"The earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
petals garden plant ant peony paeony Paeonia herbaceous perennial Paeon medicinal nectar flower pink
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blades of grass in late afternoon sun ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." ~ Walt Whitman
flora ocean Eastern North Carolina North Carolina Crystal Coast Bogue Banks blades of grass barrier island island Atlantic Ocean Eastern Seaboard seaside sand grass shadows dunes beach anchor hardy leaves rhizomes living on the edge dune grass symbiotic relationship with fungi
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wild sea oats ~ Eastern Seaboard
"Photography is a love affair with life." ~ Burk Uzzle
Uniola paniculata sea oats seaside oats arroz de costa grass subtropical grass coast coastline coastal plain coastal coastal beach coastal Carolinas sand dune beach plant southeastern United States large seed heads rhizomes inflorescences windpollinated florets barrier island beach front Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Atlantic Seaboard Eastern North Carolina Eastern Seaboard dune crest heat tolerant sea ocean nature saline environment sand stabilization nascent dune structure protected grass Bogue Banks Crystal Coast Southern Outer Banks water waves sky macro
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Summer Gardens
"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
flowers summer summertime purple plant nature garden petals gardens macro flower
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flora ~ Huron River
"If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going." ~ Harriet Tubman
flora Huron River Michigan grass plant sunlight autumn fall
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Flora ~ Huron River, Michigan
"When I have a camera in my hands, I know no fear." ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
flora Huron River Michigan grass plant summer
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Chinese Elm Bonsai with Movement ~ Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmaceae, Asia
"The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree." ~ John Naka

Started: 1980; Trained Since 2000. Donated to Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Michigan, by Dr. William Heston.
red and tan mottling flaking bark Chinese Elm Bonsai Ulmus parvifolia tree trunk roots Ulmaceae Asia Matthaei Botanical Gardens Michigan Nebari leaves branches trunk line trunk movement apical structure foliar volume foliar form texture bark design balance tray planing Japanese art form tree grown in container tradition dates back over a thousand years penzai miniature tree longterm cultivation crown and rootpruning small leaves compact visual scope not dwarfing pruned roots reduced defoliation grafted wood mottling smooth bark Lacebark elm hardest of elms peppery or spicy odor red and tan mottling of bark
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Venus Flytrap ~ Dionaea muscipula Droseraceae
“The great wonder of the vegetable kingdom is a very curious unknown species of Sensitive. It is a dwarf plant. The leaves are like a narrow segment of a sphere, consisting of two parts, like the cap of a spring purse, the concave part outwards, each of which falls back with indented edges (like an iron spring fox-trap); upon anything touching the leaves, or falling between them, they instantly close like a spring trap, and confine any insect or anything that falls between them. It bears a white flower. To this surprising plant I have given the name of Fly trap Sensitive.” ~ Arthur Dobbs
Venus.flytrap fly trap bog carnivorous hinged leaves digests insects native to southeastern U.S.Venus's flytrap Dionaea muscipula Venus' flytrap native to subtropical wetlands North Carolina South Carolina Florida trapping structure herb Green Swamp alternative medicine perhaps macro flower plant
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Marsh Reflections ~ Huron River Watershed
“I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them. A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” ~ Guy de Maupassant
marsh reflections pond grass plant flora marshland wetland herbaceous edge of lake transition ecosystem rushes reeds habitat flooded conditions sedges sawgrass high level of biological product sink filter shallow water freshwater water
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Spirit of the Season
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." ~ T. S. Eliot
spirit season tree green pine evergreen coniferous conifer pinus resinous bokeh needles longlived pine boughs Bach flower remedy macro plant water droplets reflection
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Seaons
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells."

~ John Keats
leaves autumn fall tree bokeh red water droplets season transition maple deciduous passing of the year ancient Etruscan root autu' harvest time fall of the year red leaves lush abundance Michigan October leafpeeping foliage macro
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Greenery and Lace ~ Greenfield Village
"It has been written that the shortest and best way between two truths of the real domain often passes through the imaginary one." ~ J. Hadamard
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Prairie Morning ~ Huron River and Watershed
"We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land [in the Midwest] and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
long grass prairie Huron River ecosystem North America French term for meadow
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Dandelion Wishes ~ Huron River Watershed
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
wishes Huron River Watershed seed head plant nature seeddispersed winddispersal dandelion flower Taraxacum beneficial weed wildflower dentdelion lion's tooth taprooted perennial herbaceous parachutes cankerwort doonheadclock whitch's gowan milk witch yellowgowan Irish daisy monkshead priest'scrown puffball faceclock swine's snout white endive whild endive maskros oikukka lates dantylyliew wine coffee root beer macro
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Rudbeckia ~ Huron River and Watershed
"All in the downs, the fleet was moored,
Banners waving in the wind. When Black-Eyed Susan came aboard,
and eyed the burly men.
'Tell me ye sailors, tell me true
Does my Sweet William sail with you?'" ~ John Gay
Blackeyed Susan Rudbeckia wildflower gold Preakness Stakes Maryland State Flower justice related to coneflowers flower plant nature summertime
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Blanket Flower ~ Gaillardia ~ Huron River and Watershed
“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
~ Diane Arbus
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lovely lily ~ Huron River and Watershed
“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” ~ Annie Leibovitz
flora lily flower plant garden bloom nature outdoors birthday
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Fields of Gold ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"I never made promises lightly
and there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left we'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold." ~ Sting
golden Huron River Watershed Michigan flora flower flowering plant nature petals macro wildflower
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Purple and White ~ Southern Outer Banks
"There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back." ~ Elizabeth David
purple white flowers blooms plant birthday yucca
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reaching for the river ~ Huron River
"An intelligent man will open your mind, a handsome man will open your eyes, and a gentleman will open your heart." ~ unknown
Huron River flowers petals bush water plant nature outdoors river dangling tree birthday
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Fir ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring
as the mother who secures her young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Each teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep in the rain."
~ Ute, North American
fir green tree plant summertime nature outdoors macro evergreen coniferous Pinaceae twig carries needles singly cones timber resin pyramidal fir needles are soft flat and cannot be rolled between fingers smooth bark Abies spp.birthday
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Siberian Iris ~ A Closer Look ~ Huron River and Watershed
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~ Buddha
Siberian Iris nature flower flora purple Iris sibirica frilly garden spring lush longlasting blooms narrow foliage from corms bloom tall graceful plant slim grassy foliage perennial macro birthday
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Siberian Iris ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, being a gentleman is a matter of choice." ~ Drake
Siberian.Iris Iris nature outdoors flower flora purple blue Iris sibirica frilly garden spring lush longlasting blooms narrow foliage from corms bloom tall.graceful plant plant slim grassy foliage perennial birthday challenge
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Siberian Iris ~ Huron River and Watershed
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Siberian Iris Huron River Watershed purple flower flora petals plant garden buds perennial herbaeceous rhizomatous violetblue ornamental nature
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Iris ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." ~ Brandon Gill
Iris plant flower purple flowering plant showy flowers rainbow garden nature perennial grow from creeping rhizomes also grow from bulbs long erect flowering stem ornamental spring state flower of Tennessee macro birthday
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Magnolia Blossom ~ Huron River and Watershed
“Have you ever looked at the bud of a magnolia flower? It’s a tight little pod that stays closed up for a long time on the end of its branch until one day, out of nowhere, it finally bursts open into this gigantic, gorgeous, fragrant flower that’s ten times bigger than the bud itself. It’s impossible to imagine that such a big beautiful thing could pop out of that tiny little bud. But it does.” ~ Joanna Gaines
fragant magnolia blossom flower flora sweet fragance plant nature outdoors macro tree bloom birthday
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Virginia Bluebells
"To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herbaceous perennial Virginia Bluebells Boraginaceae blue Mertensia virginica wildflower clumpforming pendulous trumpetshaped flowers plant blooms early spring leaves foliage ephemeral bellshaped flowers Virginia cowslip lungwort oysterleaf Roanoke bells butterflies most common pollinator buds pink macro flower
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Antique Rose Bush, After the Rain
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty." ~ Oscar Wilde
antique rose bush plant green raindrops garden nature old garden hardy fragant flowers old roses leaves red thorns stems
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Nature ~ Huron River and Watershed, Michigan
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." ~ William Shakespeare
rose.of.sharon seedpods nature plant bokeh flora Huron River and Watershed Michigan macro
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One Bright Spring Evening
"He said, 'One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.'" ~ Frederick Buechner
antique rose bush old garden rose bush colors of the world outdoors nature plant bush garden macro birthday
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Daffodils ~ Huron River and Watershed
Regarding daffolils: "I thinke none ever had this kind before myselfe nor did I myself ever see it before the year 1618 for it is of mine own raising and flowering first in my own garden." ~ John Parkinson, *Paradisus Terrestris* 1632
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Welcome to My World! ~ Huron River and Watershed
"A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace." ~ David Steindl-Rast
crocus flower plant bloom purple flowering iris.family perennial grow from corms saffron yellow turmeric saffron garden nature outdoors narrowgrasslike leaves cupshaped solitary flower lilac spring salverform flower yellow three stames macro birthday
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stand of crocus ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic." ~ Laini Taylor
crocus flower plant bloom purple flowering Iris.family perennial grow.from.corms saffron yellow turmeric saffron garden nature outdoors narrow grasslike leaves cupshaped solitary flower salverform flower three stamens spring yellow birthday
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Charms in Winter ~ Huron River and Watershed
"...there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them." ~ Diane Arbus
dormant rose of sharon empty seedheads plant nature birthday
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a little winter warmth
“Il n'y a d'heureux que ceux dont l'âme imprègne, illumine le corps et vit en symbiose avec lui.” ~ Pierre Charbonneau
cactus winter sun light warmth prickly nature ribs spines plant succulent green birthday
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Petals ~ Huron River Watershed
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
flower petals pink orchid garden macro
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Orchid
"The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
orchid plant flower floral bloom purple colorful flowering plant bilateral symmetry of flower many resupinate flowers highly modified petal fused stamens and carpets small seeds perennial herb birthday
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love of sunlight
heliophilia (n.) desire to stay in the sun; love of sunlight.
sunlight green plant nature fanlight fronds birthday
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The Structure of Things
"Photography gives us...a feeling of the structure of things with an intensity which the eye...has hitherto been quite unable to perceive." ~ Otto Steinert
plant green white gardens light flower floral blooms dripping botanical petals leaves corolla calyx sepals stamens carpels blossom cluster floret efforescence flourishing shoot nature birthday
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Amaryllis Flamenco Queen
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." ~ Ansel Adams
Amaryllis Flamenco Queen flower petals deep red brushmarks fretting edging calm white cool green floral flowering bulb plant belladonna lily Jersey lily naked lady amarillo Easter lily March lily bulbous plant crimson veins Hippeastrum perennial herbacious plant ornamental birthday
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Cattails ~ Huron River and Watershed
"In nature, everything looks so imperfect and unscaled, but the formation is so beautiful." ~ Bhavesh Chhatbar
cattails wetland plants flowering spike plant marsh bulrush reedmace punks corn dog grass cumbungi rhizomes are edible herbaceous perennial winddispersed seeds dominant competitor Huron River Watershed nature outdoors birthday
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Grove of Dancing Trees in Autumn
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
grove trees dancing nature outdoors autumn fall group of trees small wood plants flora stand branches twigs stems grass green crown scenery frolicking bark tree arboretum landscape
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greenery ~ Eastern Seaboard
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." ~ David Bowie
green plant Eastern Seaboard New Hampshire foliage flora light birthday
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Happy Morning Glory ~ Huron River and Watershed
"Happiness... not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour." ~ Walt Whitman
blue flower morning glory Convolvulaceae twining nature backlight velvet iridescent color bloom vine floral flowers summer light plant garden flora birthday
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Thick with Lilies ~ Michigan
“I know a little garden close
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I might
From dewy dawn to dewy night.
And have one with me wandering.”
~ William Morris
lilies Michigan garden lily lilium herbaceous flower plant beautiful beauty perennial bulbs rhizomes yellow latespring nature botanical leirion true herbaceous border Turk's Cap flowering outdoor flora blooms birthday
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Canopy of Wisteria ~ Michigan
"Under a canopy of dangling wisteria...." ~ Lisa Fantino
wisteria wistaria wysteria flowers plant nature dripping woody climbing vine vine twining stems fabales fabaceae faboideae millettieae pea family purple fragant toxic canopy outdoor garden beauty dangling cover
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