#BloomScrolling #flowers

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Unusual yellow blooms with orange specks and the green leaves of their plant in the Sinister flowerbed of the herb garden at the local botanical gardens.

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Bees visit #flowers for nectar and pollen.
Nectar provides energy and nutrients. Pollen is a source of protein that is mostly fed to their young.

‘Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.’
- Henry Adams
#bees
#bumblebees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary
#wildlife #environment
#summer #biodiversity
#science #education

One of three Hibiscus bushes I planted last summer, that survived the winter and are all thriving. #pennsylvaniagarden #pennsylvaniagardens #pennsylvaniagardener #globalwarming #climatechange #motherearth #environmentalconcern #environmentalconcerns #pollution #stoppollution #industrialproblems #SaveMotherEarth #pennsylvaniagardening #fecund #peony #peonies #canna #cannas #cannalily #cannalilies #flowering #flower #flowers #bloom #blooms #blooming #yucca #yuccas #sweetpotatovine

Sea hollies (Eryngium) are still doing well on the allotment, they don`t seem to mind the heat and drought. I have grown Eryngium bourgatii from seed a few years ago and the plants have now really taken off. They have the most amazing dark blue flowers which really stand out. Pollinators love the flowers, especially butterflies and solitary wasps & bees. #flowers #plants #drought

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Dark blue spiky flowers of Eryngium bourgatii

Zinnia flower

#百日草 #ジニア #zinnia
#Flowers #photography
#NoWar☮️ #PeacefortheWorld🕊️

Prickly Lettuce is very common in Swindon, but the flowers always seem to be either over already or not yet open, with very little time in between. This one at RSPB #FenDrayton Lakes during the week was more co-operative. #WildflowerHour #Cambridgeshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

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A plant stem with several unopened buds plus one pale yellow flower with lots of petals in several concentric rings.

Pots For Pollinators
"..containers are one of the most powerful tools we have."
https://nationalparkcity.london/pots-for-pollinators-how-to-turn-a-doorstep-into-a-feeding-station-for-bees

#SolarPunkSunday #Flowers #WildLife #BioDiversity #ContainerGardening #NationalParkCity #London #Pollinators #Bees

#SilentSunday #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #flowers #monochrome #blackandwhite #macro #photography

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A black and white macro photograph of four slender rush leaves, straight and resembling simple thin stems, with small ball-shaped flowers at the top, grouped in pairs. A very fine spider web is hanging between the strands. Photographie macro en noir et blanc de quatre feuilles de jonc grêle, rectilignes et ressemblant à de simples tiges fines, avec les petites fleurs en forme de boules au sommet, regroupées deux par deux. Une toile d'araignée très fine est accrochée entre les brins.

Front Garden Flowers With The Almanac
https://www.almanac.com/front-yard-flower-garden-plan

#SolarPunkSunday #FrontGardens #Flowers #Gardening #Gardens #Nature #WildLifeGardening #WildLife #BioDiversity

#Bloomscrolling #colorful #flowers

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A large flowerbed with mid-summer blooms in pink, purple, yellow and red with some coniferous bushes in the background.

We visited Bluebell Cottage gardens in Dutton today for the first time. Lovely place down a single track country lane. Have some colour for your timeline
#bloomscrolling #gardening #nature #flowers #photography #plants

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Close up photo of a large very bright yellow daisy like flower. There are more behind it

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Photo across a wild meadow area with many metallic purple Echinops flowers above the lush greenery

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Photo of a wildflower meadow with lots of different flowers and colours a goat the long grasses. Trees behind

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Photo of luminous bright yellow umbelliferous flowers towering above long grasses

One of my sunflowers is wearing a party hat 🌻🥳

#sunflower #bloomscrolling #blueskies #bees #summer #garden #gardening #nature #sunnyday #bright #colourful #saturdaysky #flowers #zonnebloem #bloemen #tournesol #sunshine

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A large towering sunflower against a bright blue sky. There is a bee sitting on the flower and another bee is flying towards it, looking absurdly happy somehow even though I have no idea if bees can even have facial expressions. One of the leaves of the sunflower is sticking up behind the flower itself like a cheerful green pointy hat.

#Bloomscrolling #colorful #flowers

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Large flowerbed filled with mid-summer blooms in pinks, reds, purples and yellow against a background of bushes and trees.

Time for some sunflowers!

#BloomScrolling #flowers

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Sunflower blooms with their bright yellow petals, with purple static intermingled.

Good morning, Glasgow. The sun's doing its best to shine and the decorative flower beds in Victoria Park are looking great. Hopefully, the rest of the day will live up to this morning's promise.

#glasgow #goodmorning #goodmorningglasgow #victoriapark #flowers

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Ornamental flower beds in a Glasgow park.

Have a lovely weekend!

#BloomScrolling #photography #flowers #VancouverIslandWildlife

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A Sitka columbine aka western columbine (Aquilegia formosa). An orange flower with yellow pistil that looks to me like a small crown. It is surrounded by blurry greenery.

Lotus flower 🪷

#蓮の花 #Lotus #Flowers #photography
#NoWar☮️

One of my fave dahlias put on the first blossom of the year!

#BloomScrolling #flowers

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A close up shot of a bloom from dahlia ‘Deuil du Roi Albert’, taken from the front. It has many royal purple petals generously tipped in white

#Bloomscrolling #colorful #flowers

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A corner of a large flowerbed with colorful blooms in reds, purples and white with bushes and trees in the background.

The morning shift.

#flowers #bloomscrolling #bees #pollinator #garden #photography

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Bee at work inside a pink foxglove, morning sun shining through it.

Today's color seems to be pink.

#BloomScrolling #flowers

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Pincushions flowers in two different shades of pink.

#Tigridia pavonia
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

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A single flower from the side. Three big golden yellow petals open around the inner cup which is splashed with deep red patterns. The stamens and pistil protrude prominently from the middle.

2026.07.18 京都市役所分庁舎西側広場
先週の時点ではまだ割りと咲いていた白のアガパンサス。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

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中央に咲いている花の周辺は咲き終わった花がいくつか見えるけど、割りと綺麗に咲いている白いアガパンサス。/ 2026.07.18 寺町通・京都市役所分庁舎西側広場から

Lotus flower 🪷

#烏山寺町 #蓮の花 #Lotus #Flowers #photography
#NoWar☮️ #PeacefortheWorld🕊️

Good morning. ☕☕☕

24 July 2026

Do you remember a time when you didn’t know how to write? I do. It’s a vague, hazy memory of trying to imitate my parents by scribbling squiggly lines across a chalkboard. That’s something that supposedly happened seventy years ago. Or is it?

Is it an actual memory — or just a memory of a memory? Do I only remember it because I’ve remembered it before?
Whoosh. I just blew my own mind. 🤯

A memory of a memory of a memory is a strange concept. It’s like that old game where you line up ten people and whisper a sentence into the first person’s ear. Each person passes it along, and by the time it reaches the tenth person, the message has transformed into something completely different. If memories work the same way, how accurate can they really be? Memory is a tricky thing.

My wife and I often experience the same events together, yet years later we sometimes recall them differently. Sometimes the difference is so stark that one of us remembers something clearly while the other insists it never happened at all. Was the memory lost by one of us — or created by the other?

So how can a false memory begin?
A false memory starts when your brain fills in missing details, blends experiences, or absorbs suggestions — and then treats that new construction as if it were an actual event. It usually doesn’t happen overnight. Imagine your mother telling you a story over and over about something that happened when you were young. Eventually, you might fill in the blanks and believe you remembered it all along.

Nevertheless, the chalkboard event really happened.

“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.” — Oscar Wilde

“What we remember is not what happened.” — Julian Barnes

“Every act of memory is an act of imagination.” — Oliver Sacks

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #flowers #lilies #memory

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Pink Stripes in Bloom "A cluster of lilies fills the frame like a small explosion of color and delicate structure. Each bloom stretches outward on long, slender petals that curve gently at the tips, giving the flowers a graceful, ribbon-like appearance. The petals are pale pink at their edges, deepening into richer pink tones toward the center, where a bold, darker stripe runs the full length of each petal like a painted brushstroke. The flowers gather tightly at the top of a smooth green stalk, forming a starburst of soft color against a blurred background of deep green foliage. The petals look almost weightless — thin, silky, and slightly translucent — catching the light in a way that makes them appear luminous. The overall impression is one of elegance and quiet drama: a bouquet of long, narrow petals radiating outward, each marked with a vivid stripe that draws the eye inward. The flowers feel both delicate and confident, standing tall and open, as if reaching toward the viewer. The image is signed “© Swede’s Photographs,” adding a personal touch to the composition." - Microsoft Copilot

#BloomScrolling #flowers

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Tall multi-petal yellow blooms on the green stems of their plant against a background of tree tops and blue sky.

#BloomScrolling #flowers

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Five petal pale purple blooms with darker purple markings and white stamen centers on their plants with slender green leaves in the background.

So, despite getting nearly decimated by one of the neighborhood groundhogs (who met an unfortunate fate crossing the road the other day), my #Hollyhocks have made a comeback (well, two of them -- the third one had all the flower buds eaten). I may just end up with some more seeds for next year!

#SolarPunkSunday #HomeGardens #Bloomscrolling #Flowers

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A hollyhock plant in bloom next to one about to bloom. The flowers are dark purplish-maroon with almost black centers. Behind them is wood siding painted white.

Flowers out front this morning. Summer isn't my favorite season but it has its graces. #BloomScrolling #flowers

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A yellow porch railing with buckets of pastel colours hanging from it in the morning light and a hanging basket with yellow and purple flowers at the very top of the shot. In the foreground some purple salvia flowers stick out between the railings as if advertising to hummingbirds. In the middle distance more buckets of flowering plants are hung from the central railing that reaches to the porch ceiling, buckets containing pink, blue or white flowers. It is a profusion of flower shapes and colours and beyond it a glimpse of just-after-sunrise sky. In the closest foreground is part of something wicker, possibly a small bird house.

Sunday garden: hot weather, hot colors. 🌻

#gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #Colorado

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A cluster of large, blooming rudbeckia flowers with slightly downward-curving, golden-orange petals ringing their reddish-brown centers, atop their green leaves, in dappled sun, with other garden greenery in the background.

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A trio of strawflowers blooming in the garden, with delicate, multilayered, pinkish-white petals encircling the flower center. One of the strawflower’s is fully open, exposing a double ring of golden pollen in the center of its bloom. There is a yellow, gray-headed coneflower partially hidden in the background greenery, photobombing the strawflowers.

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Four blazing orange-colored cosmos flowers, with overlapping, ruffle-edged petals blooming at the ends of tall, thin stems, with their feathery, leafy greenery in the background on a hot summer day.

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A cluster of fading, gray-headed coneflowers growing in the garden next to a decorative, somewhat rusted wind vane with a dragonfly motif. The flowers have drooping, yellow petals that hang like a skirt below the dark, grayish-brown flower centers.

#SilentSunday #Butterflies #Flowers #Iowa

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A monarch butterfly is feeding on an orange, daisy-like flower (Mexican Sunflower -- Tithonia). There are other orange flowers, somewhat out of focus behind and above the butterfly. The background is the blurry, mottled, dark green of distant vegetation.

Something a bit different today: gladiolas!

#BloomScrolling #flowers

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Gladiola blooms on their stalks. One cream and bright pink one is front and center, surrounded by others. We're looking at stalks a bit sideways rather than vertically.

#SilentSunday

#flowers

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A few pink carnation flowers growing in a pile of discarded wooden boards, beams, and bricks in the bush.

Gulf fritillary #butterfly, not seeing as many of them around this summer.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #nature #butterflies #insects #InsectPhotography #flowers

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Color photo of an orange butterfly in flight approaching some white zinnia flowers.

This is the view up the allotment for the end of July. We've dug up some of the '2nd early' potatoes with the rather unwelcome assistance of one of the local badgers. It doesn't actually eat the potatoes; it's just looking for worms but it does cause collateral damage in the process.
It also helped itself to an immature but quite large pumpkin.
The runners and climbing French beans are cropping well.
#allotments #gardening #gardens #vegetablegrowing #vegetables #Sheffield #plants #flowers

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Those are partly dug 'Wilja' second early potatoes in the foreground. You can see leeks and onions behind them. The tall plants with red flowers are the runner beans. Top: mature trees and a blue sky. 24th July, 2026.

#SilentSunday #macro #flowers #bloomscrolling #insects #photography

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Macro photograph of two raspberry-colored cosmos flowers, one opening at the top of the photo, the other open in the foreground at the bottom left, with a bumblebee resting in the sun, its wings folded on its back. Photographie macro de deux fleurs de cosmos de couleur framboise, l'une en train d'ouvrir et dans le haut de la photo, l'autre ouverte en avant plan en bas à gauche, avec un bourdon en train de se reposer au soleil, les ailes repliées sur le dos.

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem

#quote #dreaming #planning #colorful #flowers

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A gray weathered wooden bench by large flowerbeds on both sides and behind it filled with a variety of colorful flowers in yellows, white, pinks, reds and purples along with other vegetation and trees.

Another farmers market day means more incredible flowers.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #today

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Dahlia blooms, buttery yellow with a scarlet underside. They look spectacular.