I love flowers more than most anything in the world. They are a gift from nature that is here one day and gone the next . I have enjoyed taking pictures of flowers for as long as I can remember but I have really gone nuts with it in the age of digital cameras. I always carry my little camera with me and 90% of my pictures are flowers, I can't help it. I don't have the patients to be to technical so I love my little point and shoot camera. It does all the work and I can keep it in my purse.
On my regular walking route I pass the most beautiful Dahlia collection that I have ever seen. I have been watching them grow each summer for five years. . The Gardner is an "older" gentleman. He is the property owner and his property is worth a few million clams. Gardeners come real cheap in LA , I dont know if he does his own lawn. The house is two blocks from the beach and is on a canal. I rarely see him out there which I find odd, as I pass there a lot - he must be up in the wee hours of the morning. He is not overly friendly but he does seem to respond favorably to my gushing appreciation of his hard work. He devised a wonderful irrigation system. It seemed to take a few years to get it to work just right. Each season he increases his bulb collection and this year it is over the top.
I have too many pictures, luckily this a slow process so I won't get too carried away. I hope you enjoy them.
I bet all you gardeners have some flowers growing, please, please, bring them on!