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These are only some of the wild flowers we always see during spring time in the wilderness. Do you have any idea how this is called? we greatly appreciate it! Thanks a lot! Nature is truly wonderful!

This is the time that the tulips in our garden are slowly dying now. There are still some that are alive now but around 90% were already gone. Tulips only comes once a year. Here in Germany, it starts to grow in March and bloom fully in April until May. After this time, you seldom see Tulips already. I guess in Holland there are always tulips everyday since they also export it to many countries in Europe and through out the world.

These colorful tulips are found in the front side of our garden. I use to take hundreds of photos in different angles and times of the day to see the effects of the pictures taken. I am not a professional photographer..so whatever pictures you see here are original ones.

I just got curious one day that I made a very close-up picture of a red red tulip in our garden..see how it looks like! amazing beauty!

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Tulipa, commonly called tulip, is a genus of about 150 species of bulbous flowering plants in the family Liliaceae.[1] The native range of the species includes southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the west to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

I just noticed last month that everytime I go near these red tulips flowers, I smell something like a cologne or perfume. Until one day as I was getting the grasses around these tulpis, my curiosity about the good smell was finally discovered. These red tulips smells very good! I wish to plant more of these in the Autumn time. copyright photo taken by the Author of this site

Description of Tulips:
The species are perennials from bulbs, the tunicate bulbs often produced on the ends of stolons and covered with glabrous to variously hairy papery coverings. The species include short low-growing plants to tall upright plants, growing from 10 to 70 centimeters (4–27 in) tall. They can even grow in the cold and snowy winter. Plants typically have 2 to 6 leaves, with some species having up to 12 leaves. The cauline foliage is strap-shaped, waxy-coated, usually light to medium green and alternately arranged. The blades are somewhat fleshy and linear to oblong in shape. The large flowers are produced on scapes or subscapose stems normally lacking bracts. The stems have no leaves to a few leaves, with large species having some leaves and smaller species have none. Typically species have one flower per stem but a few species have up to four flowers. The colourful and attractive cup shaped flowers typically have three petals and three sepals, which are most often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. The six petaloid tepals are often marked near the bases with darker markings. The flowers have six basifixed, distinct stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals and the stigmas are districtly 3-lobed. The ovaries are superior with three chambers. The 3 angled fruits are leathery textured capsules, ellipsoid to subglobose in shape, containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds in two rows per locule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

You might only see red, orange, yellow and pink tulips. I got here that is colored violet. I even don’t remember for the past years that I have a violet colored tulips in our garden. I love this color. More tulips to come in a few days! have a happy day viewing the flowers in our garden!

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I guess these are really Chrysanthemum Flowers. Sometimes I think of it as Margarita but I believed that Margarita and Chrysanthemum are of the same family. Let me know guys I am not so sure. I took this picture of Chrysanthemum Flowers inside St. Vitus Church in Burglengenfeld in Bavaria, Germany. such lovely flowers! more info about it below.

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Chrysanthemums, often called ‘mums’, are a genus (Chrysanthemum) of about 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and northeastern Europe.

The genus once included many more species, but was split several decades ago into several genera; the naming of the genera has been contentious, but a ruling of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature in 1999 resulted in the defining species of the genus being changed to Chrysanthemum indicum, thereby restoring the economically important florist’s chrysanthemum to the genus Chrysanthemum. These species were, after the splitting of the genus but before the ICBN ruling, commonly treated under the genus name Dendranthema.

The other species previously treated in the narrow view of the genus Chrysanthemum are now transferred to the genus Glebionis. The other genera split off from Chrysanthemum include Argyranthemum, Leucanthemopsis, Leucanthemum, Rhodanthemum, and Tanacetum.

The species of Chrysanthemum are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 50–150 cm tall, with deeply lobed leaves and large flowerheads, white, yellow or pink in the wild species.

Chrysanthemum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species — see list of Lepidoptera that feed on chrysanthemums.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum

Magnolia flowers are only some of the flowers we saw in the neighborhood as we went walking last Sunday! These flowers are also very lovely..Enjoy the photo of nature in this blog!

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Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subclass Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.

The natural range of Magnolia species is a disjunct distribution, with a main center in east and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.

The genus is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.

Magnolia is an ancient genus. Having evolved before bees appeared, the flowers developed to encourage pollination by beetles. As a result, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are tough, to avoid damage by eating and crawling beetles. Fossilised specimens of M. acuminata have been found dating to 20 million years ago, and of plants identifiably belonging to the Magnoliaceae dating to 95 million years ago. Another primitive aspect of Magnolias is their lack of distinct sepals or petals. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia

Dandelion flowers are getting a lot now in Germany. You can even see hundreds of it in our garden. One thing I don’t like about it is when the pollen starts to spread to the air. I always closed our windows and doors to prevent pollen coming inside our house. I know these are weed flowers but I still see it’s own beauty…simply look at this picture.

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Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Europe, North America and Asia and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide. The common name Dandelion (IPA: /ˈdændɪlaɪən/) is given to members of the genus and like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion

I just forgot what’ the name of this flower? Any idea out there is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. These are only some of the flowers in our garden.

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Spring time is here. Plants and trees are starting to bloom flowers now. Most plants I saw around our place are bearing flowers now. A lovely time of the year! These are the white jasmine flowers in our garden. It smells so good! have fun viewing!

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Jasmine (Jasminum, pronounced /ˈdʒæzmɨnəm/, from Old French Jasmine which is from the Persian yasmin, i.e. “gift from God”, via Arabic is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae),with about 200 species, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World. The majority of species grow as climbers on other plants or on structures such as chicken wire, gates or fences. The leaves can be either evergreen (green all year round) or deciduous (falling leaves in autumn).