First of two pages of flowers in Penn Hills, Pennysylvania
Page 2 of 5

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Bearded iris
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is the entire bloom. There are four large dark blue-purple petals with a fifth one overlapping to the front. On the right is a close view of the bearded portion of the bloom which appear to be yellow and blue fuzzies in the center portion of two petals.]

Thyme-leaved speedwell are tiny plants. To provide size scale: there is a three-leaf clover in the lower right of the image.
[Two blooms are so small that combined they do not even cover one leaf of the three-leaf clover. Each bloom has four petals which are mostly white. The top petal has a lot of blue in the center. The petals on either side each have a little bit of blue near the middle top part of the petal. Two stamen stick out from the center.]

Still hunting the name for this plant.
[At the top of the stem of this low-to-the-ground plant is a magenta-purple cone-shaped structure. Tiny purple blooms are scattered in an irregular pattern across the cone.]

Lavender
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a view of the entire plant beside a mailbox post. It is comprised of multiple stalks with greenery near the base and spikes of purple at the top of each stem. The photo on the right is a close view of the purple ends. They are comprised of purple fuzzy leaf-like pieces with small blue flowers near the end of some of the purple fuzzies.]

Canada thistle
[The top of the stem branches into several sections and each has a bloom on it. The bloom has a lower section which is closed and bulb-like while the top is a near-spherical gathering of light purple string-like petals sticking in all directions.]

The flowering and seed stages of Canada thistle
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is the bloom with its light purple string-like petals at the top and the green bulb section under it. It is the only open bloom on the many ends of the forked stems at the top. The rest of the blooms are past this stage and several are puffy white. On the right are several puffy white clumps at the top of the stems. They aer like small bristle-brooms.]

Possibly sweet peaflower
[Approximately nine flower pods are distributed on the stem of this plant. Only the lower two are fully open to show the purple flowers which have two large petals on one side with a smaller curled one in front. The buds on the next level up from the blooms are starting to turn purple. The ones closest to the top of the plant are sill mostly yellow-green.]

Tiger lilies
[Two photos spliced together. On the left are the growing buds. Most are green, but one tall one is an orangish color and probably will open soon. On the right is a fully open bloom. The six bright red-orange petals open from a cup-like center. Very long stamen protrude from the center.]

Day lilies
[Two photos spliced together. On the left are the growing buds. Most are already turning yellow, but a few smaller ones are still green. On the right is one yellow fully open bloom with yellow stamen with yellow tips extending from the center and then curling upward toward the sun.]

A different type of day lily
[A single fully-open yellow bloom with six petals in two sets of three. The upper three partially overlap the lower three so there is no air between the petals. The yellow stamen are tipped with brown ends.]

Purple hibiscus
[A single fully-open purple bloom with six overlapping petals. Each petal has striations from the center to the outer edge as if it was pleated and the pleats are opening. The center of the bloom is white with a long purple piece protruding from the center.]

Red hibiscus
[A side view of a single fully-open red bloom with overlapping petals. Each petal has striations from the center to the outer edge as if it was pleated and the pleats are opening. Protruding from the center of the bloom is a long red stamen with a multitude of what appear to be tiny yellow flowers sticking out parallel to the stem along the entire length of it except for the outermost section.]

Pink hibiscus on a cool morning
[A front view of a single pink bloom with its overlapping petals curled into a cup shape. It is hard to see each petal because they are overlapped so much. Protruding from the very inner part of the cup is the stamen with all its tiny flowers, but the entire thing looks short because it is fully within the cup.]

This is another part of the pink hibiscus plant on a different day. The petals are a lighter color when the bloom is open more.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top down view of a section of the plant with two partially open blooms and at least ten fully-closed green buds. Part of the inside of the one open bloom is visible. The stamen is thick near the base and one thin long section extends to a grouping at the outer-most end. The photo on the right is looking into the partially open flower with its petals overlapping in a cup. The petals are light pink. The center of the flower is deep red. The stamen are cream color. The stamen appear to be a grouping of short stems with one very long stem in the middle which ends in five small spheres.]

White hibiscus
[A front side view of a single white bloom with its overlapping petals spread nearly flat. The inner portion of each petal is deep red. The conical stamen protruding from the center is yellow.]

These white hibiscus blooms are huge. The one on the right is the open one on the right side of the left photo. It is as big as the tail light on the car.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a large hibiscus plant growing through a wooden fence at the corner of a driveway and the road. There is a white sedan in the driveway. Several large blooms hang from the plant with one fully open and facing the right so its long stamen is fully visible. On the right is a close view of the fully open flower looking straight at the center. The petals are while and the center is deep red, but there are streaks of red emanating from the center of the petals toward the outer edges. The stamen looks short in this image because we look straight at the tip of it.]

Continue to more flower photos. (page 3 of 5)

Return to top of page.

All photos © S. M. Garver