Flower Of The Week #11 - Sunflower

Of all the flowers, it is really the Sunflower that captured my heart, especially this one. One very huge Sunflower. I am in love with this flower. Even when I was still in the Philippines, I have always wanted to see Sunflower, which is very rare in our country. Here in our place, they are all around, and mostly huge. This one in the picture is at our garden.

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Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are annual plants native to the Americas, that possess a large inflorescence (flowering head). What is usually called the flower is actually a head (formally composite flower) of numerous florets (small flowers) crowded together. The outer florets are the sterile ray florets and can be yellow, maroon, orange, or other colors. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into what are traditionally called "sunflower seeds," but are actually the fruit (an achene) of the plant. The inedible husk is the wall of the fruit and the true seed lies within the kernel.

Flower Of The Week #10 - Poppies

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

Poppies are very soothing to my eyes. I used these flowers as designs on my (wedding) "Thank You" card that I gave away to those who were in our wedding day. I glued them on the card paper and laminated them with white glue to preserve its color. Everybody commented that my card was pretty.

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A poppy is any of a number of colorful flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with colorful flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens.

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There are many colors of poppy and some have dark center markings. The species that have been cultivated for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens surrounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped collection of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are crumpled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away.

Flower Of The Week #9 - Daisy

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

Daises! Oh, I love daisies!

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Daisy, from the family Asteraceae or Compositae (also known as the aster or sunflower family) is the second largest family of flowering plants, in terms of number of species.The name Asteraceae is derived from the type genus Aster, while Compositae, an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families. The study of this family is known as synantherology. Asteraceae are cosmopolitan, but most common in the temperate regions and tropical mountains.

Flower Of The Week #8- (?)

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

I found these flowers during Sara Keys open house party at the house of her dad a couple of months ago. I took picture of these because they really look so amazing. I mean, they are so awesome! Do you agree with me? Heart shape flowers! Oh my goodness! They are just so unique. Too bad nobody knows the name of these flowers, and that is why I can't put the name of this flower on the title. This is one of the flowers that I took pictures that I didn't know what are the names.

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I want to believe that somehow, one of you seen this kind of flowers already... and probably, you know the name of these flowers. I would appreciate it very much if you leave me a word or two on my comment page, telling me what is the name of this flower. Thank you very much.

Flower Of The Week #5 - Violets

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

Viola or what is popularly known as "violets" are on our garden, too. Violet is one of my mom-in-law's favorite flowers. I like violets, too, because of its very bright color that seems to dare us.

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Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with around 400–500 species distributed around the world. Most Viola species are tiny perennial plants, some are annual plants, and a few are small shrubs. A number of species are grown for their ornamental flowers in borders and rock gardens; the garden pansy in particular is an extensively used spring and autumn/winter bedding and pot plant. Viola and violetta are terms used by gardeners and generally in horticulture for neat, small-flowered hybrid plants intermediate in size between pansies and violets.

Flower Of The Week #4 - Gumamela

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

This photo was taken in Florida while we were there for vacation. This is what we called Gumamela flower in the Philippines. I was so amazed to find that one of my favorite flower was there in Florida, along with the other tropical flowers that can be find in the Philippines. When I was a little kid, my friend and I used to sip the nectar out of it. I guess the bee was mad at us. :

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The Hibiscus or as what known as rosemallow or jamaica. In the Philippines, we call this "Gumamela". The large genus of about 200–220 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae native to warm, temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world.

Flower Of The Week #3 - Petunia

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

These are Petunia. The upper group are called Double Lavender Madness while the lower group are called Double Blue Madness. My dad-in-law bought these flowers and I plant some of them by the stairs. Aren't they lovely?

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Petunia is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. The popular flower got its name from French, which took the word petun 'tobacco' from a Tupi-Guarani language. Most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (Petunia x hybrida).

Flower Of The Week #2-Forget-Me-Nots

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

This is my husband's favorite flower, "Forget-Me-Nots". This was his gift to his mom on one occasion. He used to say that when you receive this flower, it will make you not forget the person that give this flower. Aren't they beautiful?

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Myosotis (generic name) means "mouse's ear", (after the shape of the leaf) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae that are commonly called "Forget-me-nots". There are approximately fifty species in the genus, with much variation. A considerable number of the species have small (1 cm diameter or less) rather flat, 5-petalled blue flowers growing profusely on straggly stems, flowering in spring and all summer. The seed pods and some seeds will fall out. In the United States, Myosotis alpestris is the state flower of Alaska.

Flower Of The Week #1 - Dandelion

Being here in USA is a privilege to see all the beautiful flowers that are not available in my country, Philippines. I love flowers very much. My mother does, too. I want to make a photo collection of them starting this day. I will be posting the "Flower of the Week every Friday. These flowers will either be from our garden or from somewhere that I will have PERSONAL ENCOUNTER to... and definitely, they will be from my camera, too.

Although some people don't like these flowers because they consider these as nothing but weeds; for me, these are still flowers. Dandelion is the first flower that I saw sprung up around our lawn, and that made it gain the privilege to become the first flower that I will post here in this weekly meme.

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From the generic name, Taraxacum, Dandelion 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 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. The leaves are 5–25 cm long or longer, simple and basal, entire or lobed, forming a rosette above the central taproot. The flower heads are yellow to orange colored, and are open in the daytime but closed at night. The heads are borne singly on a hollow stem (scape) which rises 4–75 cm above the leaves and exudes a milky sap (latex) when broken. A rosette may produce several flowering stems at a time. The flower heads are 2–5 cm in diameter and consists entirely of ray florets.