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.

Letter A – Judy from Lifelessons and I are playing with the Alphabet for flower names. Feel free to play along with us if you want. If you want help identifying flowers that start with a specific letter check out AllMyFavoriteFlowerNames.
If you don’t want to play along please just post a flower as usual.



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.
Qi (energy) hugs
Cee
Wow! So gorgeous!
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Glad you like these photos. Thanks Amy 😀
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Is there any difference between a jonquil and a daffodil? They look exactly the same to me, but of course I’m not handling that plants and there may be subtle differences I don’t recognize.
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I don’t know that much about the differences. Here is what I do know. All jonquils are daffodils, they are a sub category of daffs. Daffodils for the most part have a point in the middle of their petals. Jonquils the petals are more curved. So is my photo a daff or a jonquil. Depends on the website I look at. 😀 😀 You are probably more confused now.
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No. Just equally confused. I’m not great at identifying plants unless they are really obvious. Right now, most of what I see are strangling vines. They are the ONLY things that grew during the long dry summer and they are destroying anything that survived in the garden. I think they’ve even killed the roses — and I didn’t think that was possible. THOSE I can identify. Anything more subtle? Nah. That’s why I ask. I hope someone else knows what I don’t know 😀
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Daffs and jonquils confuse me too. I don’t get consistent differences on the web. I looked, read for about two hours yesterday and am still confused.
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I think they are really variations of the same flower. They are a little bit too much alike to NOT be related. But of course, I’ve been entirely wrong before.
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Jonquils are much smaller and look like miniature daffodils.
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That is what I always thought. But in my research the other day, there wasn’t any mention of size.
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I have some in our garden. They are 99% similar to daffodils but about the size of an Australian 10c piece. About an inch across.
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Thanks Andrew 😀
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There are little white and yellow jonquils that grow here, too, but I was told that they were just another variety of daffodil. So maybe they are all both jonquils AND daffodils — like all the varieties of petunias or chrysanthemums or tulips. They can look very different, but are all varieties of the same flower.
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Beautiful
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Thanks Anita 😀
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Very pretty
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Thanks Alice 😀
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I love this flower and what a beautiful shot Cee!
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Thanks for your great comment 😀
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❤️
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Love them all, Cee 👏 The colours are amazing 😃
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Thanks Jez 😀
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Lovely flowers
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So glad you like these Lauren 😀
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https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2022/09/24/laburnum-a-tanka/
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These Japanese irises are certainly so amazing 🙂
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Yes they are amazing flowers 😀
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Lovely captures! Love the Japanese Iris, beautiful!
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I like them too. 😀 😀
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Those irises are just delicious. So are the jonquils but it isn’t spring!
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Both types grow in the spring. I’m drawing from my archives 😀
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That’s a whopper iris.
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Thanks Karen 😀
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Lovely choices. Now, what WILL you come up with for K?
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Thanks Margaret. Fortunately I don’t have to do K. Somehow Judy and I got a day apart, so I have permission to skip it and just go to L. 😀 😀 Lucky me.
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What a lightweight you turn out to be Cee I’m disappointed in you 😉
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LOL 😀
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Love the iris
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I’m glad you like the iris. Thanks Sue 😀
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Beautiful!
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Thanks Aletta 😀 😀
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I’m curious what the difference is between a jonquil and daffodil, if any, as well…. 🙂
Carnation
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Marilyn asked the same question. I copied my response for you.
I don’t know that much about the differences. Here is what I do know. All jonquils are daffodils, they are a sub category of daffs. Daffodils for the most part have a point in the middle of their petals. Jonquils the petals are more curved.
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