Shangri La Macro Monday

These are some of the photos I took at Shangri La Botanic Gardens in Orange, TX last weekend.

Macro Monday

I’m so happy to see the butterflies coming through town. This has been such as harsh year for them and for us gardeners. This monarch is feasting on Gregg’s Mistflower, you can even see pollen all over its wings.

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Macro Monday

These are some of the macro shots I took at Lorene Edwards Forkner’s garden in Seattle. She was one of our Seattle Fling Organizers and is an author of several gardening books.

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Macro Monday–Coming in for a landing

I caught this guy in mid-air while I was visiting Dragonfly Farms Nursery in Washington State.

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Independence Day

Happy Fourth of July!

Macro Monday

Gomphrena 'Fireworks'

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Macro Monday - Coreopsis

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Macro Monday

This is a shot I took one night of my night blooming cereus. I was holding a flashlight in my hand and trying to get a good angle, I'm sure I looked ridiculous. The bloom wasn't fully opened that night, but I forgot to go out the next night to take a look at it, then it was gone.

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Macro Monday

I was roaming around the yard this morning after watering my vegetable seeds and noticed a few flowers blooming today, that were not in bloom yesterday. As I was taking photos, I thought to myself, I need a meme for Macro Monday. After a quick search, I found Lisa’s Chaos, she is the host of Macro Monday.

Clerodendrum bungei

Obedient Plant

If you enlarge this picture, you’ll see white specs on the bee, I guess he’s covered in pollen.

Penta

Argiope aurantia

This zipper spider has been chillin’ out here for a few days. Hope he’s catching something.