Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: pink

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19 Feb 2025 11 5 54
Flowers from our Christmas cactus, which, true to form, skipped Christmas and decided to flower in mid-February instead. For most of the year it is a very unimpressive looking plant, but it produces these lunatic flowers. It blooms in response to shorter days and longer nights so growing indoors under house lights probably confuses its flowering cycle. The parent of the Christmas Cactus, (or Schlumbergera), is from Brazil:- Copied from Wikipedia "Schlumbergera truncata occurs only in a small area of the coastal mountains of south-east Brazil, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, located in the southernmost part of the tropics. Sites where it has been found include the Organ Mountains (Serra dos Órgãos) in the Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos and in the Serra do Mar near to the city of Rio de Janeiro. Plants grow at altitudes of 700–1,000 metres (2,300–3,300 ft). Because of their altitude and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, the coastal mountains have high humidity – warm moist air is forced upwards into higher, colder locations where it condenses. S. truncata usually grows on trees (epiphytic),[3] or on rocks (epilythic)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumbergera_truncata

pompom pink poppy DSC 6988 edited

01 Aug 2023 5 3 137
A pink "pompom" poppy. Unfortunately, it didn't last long, it was blown away in a rainstorm.

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18 May 2023 12 4 152
A large white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) which, confusingly, in this case is pink. The normally white flowers turn pink as they age, but there is also a rare variety that is pink from the moment it blooms. A woodland plant that flowers in mid to late spring. The seeds have an oily attachment called the elaiosome that ants find irresistible. The ants carry the seeds back to their nests, feed on the elaiosomes and abandon the rest of the seed near the nest where some will sprout. The white trillium is the floral emblem of Ontario.

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01 Mar 2023 10 10 165
Pink roses (Bonica) from last year, wet from the rain.

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15 Feb 2023 12 7 166
This is our Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera). It is the second year of flowering, last year it flowered for Easter, this year early in February, so maybe next year it will do what it's supposed to and come out for Christmas!

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11 Nov 2022 7 4 141
A rose after a rain shower.

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31 Oct 2022 8 7 165
The weather has been unusually warm lately. Yesterday I saw a butterfly (very unusual for the end of October). The roses are taking full advantage of the warmth. This is a Bonica rose, and it is always the last to continue flowering into the late Fall.

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28 Jun 2022 7 90
A fly settling for a few moments on a rose petal after the rain

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13 Jun 2022 7 4 119
A brown-belted bumblebee (bombus griseocollis) foraging in the lupins.

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07 Jun 2022 3 1 99
Ascending symmetry, head of a young lupin. My old (13 year) camera finally bit the dust a few months ago so I bought a new one a few days ago and having been playing with the buttons to get a feel for it.

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23 Jul 2021 11 10 155
A monarch butterfly (Monarque, Danaus plexippus) feeding on echinacea flowers.

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08 Jul 2021 9 7 197
Water lily (nénuphar).

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06 Jun 2021 12 4 171
A bumble bee in flight foraging among lupins.

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02 Jun 2021 2 110
Columbine (aquilegia).

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24 Jun 2019 8 2 192
Lupin flowers taken looking down the axis of the stem

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