Welcome to my Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD). During the winter months, please feel free to use your archives and find some old favorite photos.
Please feel free to post every day or when you you feel like it. Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers.
Karen from Underdown blog asked what a tick bush is. It is actually a Japanese barberry bush it attracts deer ticks, hence its nickname Tick Bush. I like the name since I had Lymes Disease that went undiagnosed for nearly 30 years.
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Cee
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So amazingly gorgeous. And seeing them in such vivid colors almost the year round is truly wonderful 🙂
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They do drop their leaves for winter, but the berries remain and are slowly eaten by birds. 😀
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Love that first close-up, Cee 👏 I’d heard of the tick bush but didn’t know it was the barberry 😃
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When we first moved in to the house, the previous owners had just planted 4 or 5 in our backyard against the fence. The label just said tick bush. I had to laugh at the irony. Now knowing some of the history. Iron is right, because we really like the colors of the bush 😀
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What a beautiful plant! Love the flowers, I have never seen that before.
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Thanks Aletta. 😀 😀
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I don’t believe we have this good-looking plant here. If it harbours ticks, that’s just as well!
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I will at least know what bush not to go to in the wild. 😀 😀
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A glorious looking thing, Cee. Not so sure about the ticks.
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I’m not too concerned about the ticks in my yard though. 😀 😀 In the wild…take warning though. 😀
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I love the gorgeous little flowers revealed in your first photo. I planted these as they are deer-resistant, but didnt ever notice the flowers, unfortunately. Actually, I think the deer ate them! This was in Boulder Creek,CA in the redwoods..before I moved to Mexico.
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It would make sense you had them in Northern California since they grow here. 😀
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Gorgeous colours on this bush. Love the first close up, so beautiful.
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Thanks Maria 😀
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Beautiful post
Thanks
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Thanks for commenting 😀
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It looks beautiful, Cee. Interesting about the ticks – in Germany we consider them most common on gorse shrubs.
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It all depends on where you live. 😀 😀
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The macro is so good Cee 🙂 🙂
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Thanks Brian. 😀
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Really pretty colors on this one. 🙂
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The bush we leave rugged looking so I don’t photograph it often, but the colors it has throughout the year are spectacular. 😀
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https://maliphantdee.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/flower-of-the-day-queens-platinum-jubilee/
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Love the vibrant colors.
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Thanks Sandy for comment. I love its color too 😀
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I’ve often seen this plant but never knew the name before.
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So you learned something today!! How cool 😀 😀
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Thirty years! That is heart-wrenching! I went about eight months before they figured out that I had celiac. And I thought that I had it bad. You are an incredibly strong person, Cee!
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Lymes almost killed me three different times. Doctors never knew why I got to sick. Thank the universe it no longer is an active infection. 😀 😀
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Thank the Lord that they were able to diagnose and properly treat your condition. You’ve been through a lot, but you totally send out positive vibes into the universe!
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I’m glad I send out positive vibes. Glad you can feel it 😀
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Here is MItch’s first entry from SOJOURNS TODAY blog. I hope you enjoy these flowers as much as I do.
https://sojournstoday.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/flowers-to-brighten-our-lives/
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