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.


I’ve gathered a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
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Cee
I was hoping ours would make a quick autumn comeback, but it has just been too dry. Only the stonecrop survived, and just barely. Meanwhile, the goldfinch are eating the flowers on the deck. Post will be up tomorrow morning.
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This is so beautiful. Looks like a bouquet. Love this stage of the flower that you have captured.
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Their buds are cool. Thanks Judy 😀
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I’ve never seen one this colour before; that’s cool 😎
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They all start out a light green. This is actually my blue one in its infancy. 😀
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Lovely! All at the ready to bloom.
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Yes it is. 😀 😀
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A nice specimen with weeks of display to come.
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Mine are all dried up now. Thought I remember it’s early summer blooms 😀
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Ooh I like seeing the gradual opening.
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Me too
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Thanks both of you 😀 😀
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Oooh, no, Cee. They’re looking brilliant here. They’re such a thirsty plant though. We’re saving our grey water for them.
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Ours get too dry in August even when we water good. The sun also burns them. 😀
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😦
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Me too
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Gorgeous
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Thanks Sheree 😀
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Pleasure See
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Lovely, Cee, my hydrangeas are doing the exact same thing right now, so cool. Here is my link with lots of sunflowers for you today: https://secondwindleisure.com/2022/09/04/sunday-stills-why-i-chose-a-staycation-over-a-vacation/
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I’m sure this will be a stunner when it opens fully.
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It was Clare. 😀 😀
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