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Creatures in the Garden 57
Taken on June 17, 2015 at the Haagen Dasz Honey Bee Haven near the U. C. Davis campus. Male carpenter bees are seldomly seen, so it was a rare treat to find and photograph this fuzzy tan “teddy bear.” The bee’s captivating greenish eyeballs stared at me while it hugged the vibrant purple blooms of M...
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Creatures in the Garden 58
Golden light on my back yard finch gave me inspiration to make this image through my window.He comes everyday to have his meals, this time he dropped his sun flower seed
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Creatures in the Garden 6
This photo was taken at the 2016 Master Gardener Tour in Pacific Grove. I looked through my UCMG texts and online but I couldn't identify it. So I emailed the UCMG Monterey Bay Hotline with the photo saying I didn't know if it was an adult, if it was beneficial or a pest. The Master Gardener hotline...
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Creatures in the Garden 60
Looks like a new leaf just sprouted, my husband said, pointing to the succulent plant sitting atop our patio table. After I unload the lunch tray of sandwiches I was carrying, I glanced at what had caught his interest. The more I stared, the more I saw -- eyes, legs, long thin antennae. I don't thin...
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Creatures in the Garden 61
Aphids on Red Russian Kale taken April 3, 2010. Taken to demonstrate a real aphid infestation!
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Creatures in the Garden 62
This photo was taken in my backyard where I have a small butterfly garden with both tropical milkweed and native milkweed. Following guidelines from butterfly experts, I cut the tropical milkweed back each November. I noticed these two caterpillars on the same stem. Were they sharing or competing...
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Creatures in the Garden 63
Taken in my front garden and checked with our Master Gardener Help Desk to see if it is harmful. It is not helpful unless in large numbers. I only found one and it provided a nice photo for me to post on Instagram! Do follow me @ucmarinmastergardeners!
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Creatures in the Garden 64
Photo taken at the Garden of the Sun in Fresno, CA on June 12, 2017. The back lighting of the afternoon sun highlighted the dramatic shape of the artichoke and flower and produced an interesting aura-like glow off the tail of a bee.
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Creatures in the Garden 65
Pulling out some onions that this guy grabbed my finger. Could hardly see him in the tall leaves.
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Creatures in the Garden 66
Taking care of the little ones. om & Dad were kept quite busy. Taken a few days before they flew.Auburn, CA
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Creatures in the Garden 67
My husband and I got the milkweed from the Master Gardeners and we waited to see the result!The photo was taken with my iPad in my garden on April 21, 2017. The colors of the caterpillar match the colors of the monarch butterfly.
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Creatures in the Garden 68
This was a rare occasion for me or anyone for that matter! Watching a Morning Cloak lay eggs! A young child yelled out at the Del Mar Fair, she's laying eggs!. So we all congregated around the mom in labor and got to witness this amazing event. She looks a bit ragged (as we all do during labor!)...
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Creatures in the Garden 69
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Creatures in the Garden 7
The photo taken on June 26th, 2017 in my garden in Mill Valley, CA. The symbiotic relationship between the flower and the butterfly caught my eye. There is an abundance of bees and butterflies in my garden this year.
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Creatures in the Garden 70
I had a crop of these in my shade garden when I was growing African daisies (obviously not a good location). . Since I speak on healthy gardens and insect residents, I spotted them immediately. This little guy seemed particularly irritated. It was more like I caught his eye, rather than him catchin...
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Creatures in the Garden 71
It was taken in my backyard several years ago; I was struck by the spider's large size and amazing structure.
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Creatures in the Garden 72
This beauty at approximately 5 ft in length is a regular visitor in my garden wall for the past two years, helping himself to the mice and beetles who also reside there. Used to scare me but now we often work side by side since I now recognize him as beneficial. The only evidence he leaves behind ...
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Creatures in the Garden 73
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Creatures in the Garden 74
Liberty High School, Benicia, 2017The gentleness of natures encounter.
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Creatures in the Garden 75
While giving a group of students a tour of the Sherwood Demonstration Garden in El Dorado County last fall, we were looking at the plants that attract butterflies in our butterfly garden and saw these guys on the underside of a milkweed flower that had gone to seed.
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Creatures in the Garden 8
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Creatures in the Garden 9
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Creatures in the Garden Gallery
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Dr. Tamekia Wilkins, Promising Practices Exchange 2017
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Gallery Display
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Gallery Display 2
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Gardeners Choice
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Gardeners Choice Presenation
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Gardeners Choice Voting
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Grapevine in spring
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Group Shot, Promising Practices Exchange 2017
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Groups Shot, Promising Practices Exchange 2017 (2)
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Incredible Edibles 10
Several years ago my friend was throwing out this miniature peach tree based on age and poor performance. I hated to see it go, so I kept it and tried to nurse it to health. The larger container still limits it's size but after a good pruning I was rewarded.
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Incredible Edibles 11
This was taken a few years ago at the height of the summer harvest from my garden---thought is made an appealing composition
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Incredible Edibles 12
This photo was taken in July 2013, in my garden. It's fun for me to make still life arrangements of my daily harvests. I grew several varieties of heirloom tomatoes as well as cherry tomatoes that year (many cherry tomatoes don't make it out of my garden, getting consumed on the spot while they are ...
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Incredible Edibles 13
This photo was taken in my garden on October 20, 2012. A rain storm was coming in the next day so I had to get all the tomatoes harvested or I would lose the crop. I initially put he tomatoes on 6 trays, but but soon ran out of space... so up against the clock I just thought that I better finish pi...
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Incredible Edibles 14
This was taken at The Little House Community Center in Menlo Park, CA. I planted this starter in one of the 7 garden beds that have I have been tending for several years now.What caught my eye was the detail of the hairs and the determination of the plant itself...it is birthing right before our eye...
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Incredible Edibles 15
The photo was taken in Napa in late summer. I often see lizards sunning themselves on rocks and was surprised to see one on a melon. I suppose, from a lizard’s point of view a melon is as good a perch as any other garden object.Melons are members of the Cucurbitaceae family and relatives of cucumber...
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Incredible Edibles 16
This photo was taken in Naples, Italy in June, 2017 while I was exploring the port town. The contracting colors of the vegetables caught my eye and my inspiration.
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Incredible Edibles 17
The photo was taken on June 26th, 2017 in my vegetable garden. The squash blossoms reminds me of an hibiscus flower which caught my eye.
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Incredible Edibles 18
We created over a 3 year period unbelievably fertile soil. We literally had bumper crops from three large raised beds. We had plenty for ourselves AND a local food bank. Last summer We called it The summer of tomatoes We had so many that no only did my husband Jeff make salsa for the entire neighbor...
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Incredible Edibles 18A
We created over a 3 year period unbelievably fertile soil. We literally had bumper crops from three large raised beds. We had plenty for ourselves AND a local food bank. Last summer We called it The summer of tomatoes We had so many that no only did my husband Jeff make salsa for the entire neighbor...
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Incredible Edibles 19
Photo was taken in my kitchen immediately after harvesting the garlic from my garden, mid June 2017.
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Incredible Edibles 1st Place
This photo was taken in my kitchen in Orange, California on January 20, 2016. These bright red and white French Breakfast radishes, just pulled from my kitchen garden, are so cheerful! This is just one of many types I grow and eat -- I just love the diversity of shapes, colors, and sizes you can g...
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Incredible Edibles 2
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Incredible Edibles 20
Photo taken in Elk Grove, CA. I love this picture because it makes me think the blossom is dreaming of what it will be come.
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Incredible Edibles 21
Our back door is a flight up from the garden, so a ledge on its landing is where I grow my most-used herbs, like these green onions. Not having to run up and down stairs for a few last-minute snips while cooking certainly makes them easier to use.Every stage of green onions' growth offers its own pl...
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Incredible Edibles 22
The photo was taken the first week of June. I was astonished to see that one of the trees actually had fruit already. Now I show it off to anyone who walks by. Nature is miraculous!
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Incredible Edibles 23
Tomato growing in my back yard garden a few years ago.
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Incredible Edibles 24
Picture taken in my garden at 302 Santa Anita Road in Santa Barbara, California August 12, 2015. This type of fig I thought unusual when I bought the tree and was concerned I would not like the fruit. After two years I realized what a gem it is. The fruit gets better with every passing year.Tiger St...
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Incredible Edibles 25
This was taken in the Demo Garden that the Master Gardeners of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties manage at Rancho Cielo Youth Campus in Salinas, CA. I love the juxtaposition of the old glove and the new fig.
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Incredible Edibles 26
Picking apricots in the crisp morning hours when the air is still, feeling the give of fallen fruit under your feet and satisfying your hunger at a tree all signal the deluge of summer fruit to come. Photo was taken in Easton on 6-6-17.
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Incredible Edibles 27
The blueberry's subtle dusky-blue skin is very attractive. I remember being surprised when I was young that the berry wasn't blue the whole way through. I took this photo 8/16/2016 in my living room in Greenbrae. I placed a few on a light box and tried to capture the juiciness and subtle colors o...
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Incredible Edibles 4
This photo was taken after collecting the various produce from the Contra Costa Demonstration Garden (Our Garden) in August of 2016. Once the collection has been secured, it is then transported to the Monument Crisis Center (MCC) in Concord CA. MCC is a community-based non-profit family resource cen...
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Incredible Edibles 5
I took this photo of grapes we had just picked in our small Amador County vineyard in September, 2016. The contrast of the white bucket with the intensity of the deep blue grapes initially caught my eye. Seeing these beautiful grapes spill out of the bucket took me back through the many stages in th...
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Incredible Edibles 6
Take at LACO-DPW in front of the Annex Building. This garden was built for demonstration purposes for the employees and visitors. This one of our first corps, which I volunteer to take care of.
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Incredible Edibles 7
What I like about this capture is it depicts several stages of fruit development in the same image. The ripest berry has mostly separated from the cluster and is about to fall, there are some ripening fruits, a green unripe berry and also a flower which has just lost its petals.? I think this would ...
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Incredible Edibles 8
I received a very small olive tree in a 4 inch pot as a gift for Christmas 2016. I re-potted it in a larger pot and prayed it would survive. To my amazement, it flourished and this spring it flowered. Then appeared small green olives all over this tiny tree. I am so excited to have been success...
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Katherine Web-Martinez, Promising Practices Exchange 2017
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LA County 2016 Advanced IPM 3
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Lauren Snowden, Promising Practices Exchange 2017
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Outstanding Ornamental 100
In memory of Shari Johnson (passed away 2/4/2017), a generous and warm MG. She gave me the seeding. It's blooming again in my garden, miss her!
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Outstanding Ornamental 20
In my 2016 Master Gardener class we were given a small group assignment to research and present on the Fabaceae plant family. I was delighted to learn about and be able to identify various plants in my and my classmates' gardens, as well as at our local community farm and garden. It is now, not surp...
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Outstanding Ornamental 26
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Outstanding Ornamental 27
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Outstanding Ornamental 28
Taken in the morning after a light shower, in my backyard. Taken on April 6, 2014. The brilliant starburst effect was spellbinding.
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Outstanding Ornamental 29
Taken in Granite Bay, CA Photo Taken June 13, 2017Brilliant color
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Outstanding Ornamental 30
It took a couple of years and a major recovery from losing 35% of our front yard to gophers, but we created a flower fantasy for the neighborhood.The photo was taken last year just prior to being included in a local garden tour.The first photo is the before and the second photo is after.
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Outstanding Ornamental 31
It took a couple of years and a major recovery from losing 35% of our front yard to gophers, but we created a flower fantasy for the neighborhood.The photo was taken last year just prior to being included in a local garden tour.The first photo is the before and the second photo is after.
Original size 768 x 552
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Outstanding Ornamental 32
My son gave me this a pot containing several succulents several years ago for Mother's Day--it has continued to thrive with very little help from me which happily is also true for my son !
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Outstanding Ornamental 33
Sun flowers, lots of sun flowers.
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Outstanding Ornamental 34
This is my favorite photo over the many years I've captured garden scenes. It did then and still does take my breath away. It was taken at Butchart Gardens, BC in the fall. The approach is a spiral stairway descending into shady darkness with this pool at the bottom.
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Outstanding Ornamental 35
Begonia that I grew
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Outstanding Ornamental 36
This Aechmea fasciata was originally a rescue, probably one of those gift plants that someone discarded once its inflorescence faded. But we gardeners know that with patience, we'll see a new pup form, and flowers will eventually follow. Even knowing this, this bromeliad always surprises me: how ca...
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Outstanding Ornamental 37
This Dicentra is growing in a pot in my backyard. It is about 5 years old and it blooms in the early spring and then dies back.
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Outstanding Ornamental 38
Taken this March in my sister's garden in Camarillo, CA. She is also a Master Gardener in Ventura County.
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Outstanding Ornamental 3rd Place
This is a plant in my garden. When I move to the SF Bay areas 25 years ago I brought an echeveria with me from my Dads garden. He wasn't a gardener per se - but this plant was the start of interest in my yard - it connected me to my family and was the start of my own garden.
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Outstanding Ornamental 40
photo was taken at residence in Dixon, CA. This is 'Showy' dahlia given to me by another MG, Sharon Rico. The flower reflects it's name-showy!
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Outstanding Ornamental 41
Photo taken on June 24, 2017 at the Sunset Garden display at Cornerstone in Sonoma, California.The drama begins with the strong and spiky reach for the sky of the Agave and continues with the contrasting textures, form and color of the grass. This photo give me energy and awe.
Original size 3161 x 2736
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Outstanding Ornamental 42
This photo was taken to show the nitrogen fixing rhizobia on the fava bean cover crop. The garden is located in Salinas, CA at Rancho Cielo Youth Campus.
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Outstanding Ornamental 43
This was taken in my backyard in Fresno on 4/30/15. I took the picture because I was impressed by the size of the blooms and beauty.
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Outstanding Ornamental 44
Photos were taken at the South Coast REC Demonstration Landscapes.
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Outstanding Ornamental 45
Photos were taken at the South Coast REC Demonstration Landscapes.
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Outstanding Ornamental 46
This image was taken in my back yard in Greenbrae in June of 2016. There are many agapanthus planted in the shade of Valley Oaks that I watch open in the spring. I was able to capture this image as dappled sunlight fell on a single flowering bloom letting it glow in the spotlight for a few minutes
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Outstanding Ornamental 47
This rose blooms for a very short time and it is hard to catch it at its best. The color of this just knocks me out.
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Outstanding Ornamental 48
Taken on February 24, 2016 in the Water Efficient Landscape at the Fair Oaks Horticultural Center near Sacramento. The beautiful variegation of deep rose to pink blossom color against bluish green foliage made for a gorgeous close-up subject.
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Outstanding Ornamental 51
I took this image in November 2016 in my covered patio, there was a light breeze and I thought I saw a graceful ballet dancer in front of me
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Outstanding Ornamental 52
I made a house of flowers for my daughter; strong stem walls and blossoming vines for a roof. I think I spent more time there than she did. Summer 2016
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Outstanding Ornamental 53
Pounding the sidewalk during a morning walk, I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of Lady Banks. She swung from tree limbs, sprawled across the ground and draped herself like a cape across Juniper bushes. Needless to say, I hurried home to grab my camera and catch her in the act. That day the bea...
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Outstanding Ornamental 54
Passion vine flower taken in 2013 at my wife's studio near our home. This is the vine my wife loves to hate as it it mostly out of control most of the time.
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Outstanding Ornamental 55
Around sunset in Tarragona, Spain
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Outstanding Ornamental 56
Taken at Talbert Park in Costa Mesa on May 16th, 2017.
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Outstanding Ornamental 57
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Outstanding Ornamental 58
The photo was taken early in the morning in May of this year. A couple of things that caught my eye other than the gorgeous irises was the beautiful way they formed a fan shape out of the container. Also the contrast between the color of the irises and the old apricot tree in the background is also...
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Outstanding Ornamental 59
shades of purple
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Outstanding Ornamental 60
Given to me in memory of my Mom .It puts a smile on my face when it blooms. Auburn, CA
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Outstanding Ornamental 61
I was harvesting garlic in my garden when a scape that I let grow out was beginning to blossom. I always let some garlic flower because the blossoms are such a beautiful ornamental element. The blossoms also draw pollinators and they are a great conversation starter with my neighbors. As I was get...
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Outstanding Ornamental 62
front yard april 1 2017
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Outstanding Ornamental 63
Grown under a patio cover.
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Outstanding Ornamental 64
Taken at UC South Coast Research Station Irvine CAJune 13,2017 The Complexity of the Blossom
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Outstanding Ornamental 65
I took this shot with a close up lens so there is little depth of field showing only colors in the background and foreground. When I see these plant shapes and colors in combination with light it taps into my passion for photography.
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