Photos of plant life

So beautiful! What is it?

@recliningfate It's a blue wonder toad lily :)

@mytwistedsoul That is spectacular!

@PatienceImpatiens @recliningfate

Thank you! 😊

Thank you! So gorgeous!

@mytwistedsoul

Soul, that is marvelous I want to try to grow one in my flower bed❤️

@PatienceImpatiens

It works on my tablet! This is an African Violet I have just brought home. So pretty.

Wow that’s beautiful! And sweet that it worked on your tablet!💕🌸

@recliningfate I love the color!

@mytwistedsoul

@recliningfate

I love the color too!

@recliningfate

Love the color!

@PatienceImpatiens

Thanks for creating this thread 🌞 Here are some flowers from my backyard 🌸

Ohhhhh are those beautiful lilies??? So pretty!

@PatienceImpatiens

I think so :) I had a couple more pics I wanted to upload of a palm tree and another big plant, but my photos weren't coming out right 🌴

Love all the photos that have been uploaded, especially the one of the 400 year-old tree you took with the lichen 🍄 Nature is lovely, wish we could be more connected with it year round 🌿

Agree!

@Espejo

Such delicate and pretty flowers!

This tree is doomed.

The part of the photo I didn't take was the red belt it was wearing. The forestry folks mark the trees that are to be taken down.

However, I was captivated by the blue mold growing gently on this old bark. The years of life this tree has had. I found the texture to be something in which I could get lost.

You might say, "Get lost! This is not a pretty flower!"

I would retort, "But this tree has lived longer than you, or your parents, or your grandparents, or even your great-grandparents. It has seen so many changes. Its fungal network will help the other trees of the forest to communicate once it rots away. It's a key to our survival. Even half dead it churns out hundreds of foot pounds of oxygen, converting the carbon layer into useable breathable air. Do you like to breathe? Thank a tree."

@PatienceImpatiens

I think it's cool! Flowers are pretty but I also love seeing interesting stuff like this, thanks for sharing :)

@PatienceImpatiens

So pretty!

Beautiful!

Wow, is that a Chocolate Lily? I love it!

@PatienceImpatiens Its called a Night Flyer?

@mytwistedsoul Ohhhh, I never saw one of those before!!!!

@PatienceImpatiens I never had either but I saw it last year and had to get it lol

@mytwistedsoul

Soul that is a very unusual flower and yet so pretty😊

I just learned something new about you Soul[ You are a flower lover and that is awesome😊

@WorkingitThrough2 It's a different color than what is usually here

🙂 lol thanks! I do like to grow flowers and there's a lot here. Lilies and irises and peonies come up every year. And an assortment of petunias and morning glories. The butterflies and hummingbirds like them 😊

Stunning flower!

lovely thread on a cold January day!

Here's one from me: I took this photo of this unknown cactus, something probably in the Echeverria family. I like the geometry of the unfolding leaves. It's known as sacred geometry. You can look at a sunflower (the center with its patterning, not just the petals around the edges) to see another example of this. 😊

@InquireWithin This is so cool!

@InquireWithin It looks like velvet.

@InquireWithin

Wow it looks fuzzy

@Lilahsky7

This is absolutely stunning! what are these called?

Foxglove flowers :)

@Lilahsky7 @animalWind6515

Yep, it's Digitalis purpurea, from which we get the heart medication digitalis. 😊 It once was considered a flower beloved by the fairies, in European folklore.

I love plants on my room but my mom hates it...

Just like the feeling of having plants by me it reminds me of nature...

@PatienceImpatiens