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  • An orange Gerber Daisy pops in the garden from the early morning sunlight.<br />
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The Gerbera Daisy is the fifth most popular flower in the world, gerbera daisies can mean innocence, purity, and cheerfulness. These large daisy variations come in a number of vibrant colors, and sending them is the perfect way to brighten someone's day.<br />
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The meanings of gerbera daisies stem from those attributed to the general daisy family. These meanings include innocence and purity, and daisies are also a classic symbol of beauty. However, the gerbera variety holds an added meaning of cheerfulness, which stems from the assortment of colors available. An assorted bouquet of gerbera daisies can lift the spirit and sending one is an ideal way to brighten someone's day. The sheer multitude of available varieties has helped the gerbera daisy become a favorite choice for many different occasions.<br />
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The gerbera daisy was discovered in 1884 near Barberton, South Africa, by Scotsman Robert Jameson. While the flower's scientific name, Gerbera jamesonii, recollects the name of its founder, the meaning of its common name draws from German naturalist Traugott Gerber. Breeding programs that began in England in 1890 enhanced the flower's quality and color variations. The gerbera daisy's popularity soon traveled to growers in the Netherlands which, along with Columbia, is the primary distributor of the flower's cut version today. The gerbera currently ranks as the fifth most popular flower in the world behind the rose, carnations, chrysanthemum, and tulip.<br />
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Gerbera L. is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family. It was named in honour of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber who travelled extensively in Russia and was a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.
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  • Soft petals push their way our from the garden in soft morning light
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  • A shot from the flower garden to brighten the day
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  • A Soft Purple Petunia soaking up some morning light
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  • A Squirrel Posted Up In The Flower Garden
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  • A pretty pink Zinnia flower contrasted against a metallic backdrop. <br />
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Zinnia is a genus of 20 species of annual and perennial plants of the family Asteraceae. They are native to scrub and dry grassland in an area stretching from the Southwestern United States to South America, with a centre of diversity in Mexico<br />
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Zinnia leaves are opposite and usually stalkless (sessile), with a shape ranging from linear to ovate, and pale to middle green in color. The flowers have a range of appearances, from a single row of petals, to a dome shape, with the colors white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red, purple, and lilac.<br />
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Zinnias are popular garden flowers, usually grown from seed, and preferably in fertile, humus-rich, and well-drained soil, in an area with full sun. They will reseed themselves each year. Over 100 cultivars have been produced since selective breeding started in the 19th century.
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  • Purple Petunias From The Garden Greet You With A Warm Welcome
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  • Zinnia Floral Imprint Art Montage From The Garden With Greens, Reds and Yellow Floral Highlight Details
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  • Daylily is the general nonscientific name of a species, hybrid or cultivar of the genus Hemerocallis. A normal, single daylily flower has three petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals, each with a midrib in the same or in a contrasting color. The centermost part of the flower, called the throat, usually has a different color than more distal areas of its tepals.
    Rainbow Daylily Heat - Hemerocallis.jpg
  • A Soft Blooming Fuchsia Colored Rose from The Garden
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  • A macro shot of a fly perched on a daisy petal in the garden
    Garden Flower Fly.jpg
  • A Shadow Play Climber Scales The Garden Wall Toward The Hanging Flower Blooms
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  • A bold and vibrant macro closeup of a pink and purple Marguerite Daisy against a textured rainbow colored backdrop. A bit of a hippy vibe that screamed a bit of flower power for me.<br />
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This spray flower has a classic bloom with many ray petals radiating out from a disk-shaped center. This colorful package of popping purple tinted daisies would add an alluring appeal to any wedding bouquet, table centerpiece or flower arrangement! <br />
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The Marguerite daisy or also know as the Argyranthemum frutescens, is a lovely daisy featuring a large middle of the flower generally yellow but depending on the variety they can also be pinkish in color.<br />
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The petals of the Marguerite are generally white, pink, or yellow. They can have single or double blooms and they are usually 1-2 inches in size. The leaves and such of Marguerite daisies are a blue-green color, thin and almost fern like.<br />
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The Marguerite daisy does best in richly fertilized, well drained soil. They also like to be planted in fully sunny areas. They work really well as a boarder or on the outside edge of your year or garden adding the perfect splash of color to the area.<br />
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This type of daisy is a pretty hardy plant, if you have them planted outside make sure to water them about twice a week. If the plant starts to wilt it is a sign that they need a bit more water. Keep the soil moist pretty often, but never all the time because like with most plants, their root will rot if left in constant water.
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  • A soft pink peony flower greets me from the garden on this beautiful morning
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  • A little pink petal magic from the garden
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  • Another beautiful greeting from our garden today.
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  • Today's Greeting From The Garden
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  • Grungy Pink Floral Petals Pop From The Garden Showing The First Signs Of Spring
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  • Some Tulips the neighbor planted by their mailbox during sunset lighting with glowing edges and pastelated colors
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  • Miss Finch Stopped By The Feeders For A Quick Bite and A Bath
    Miss Finch In The Flower Garden.jpg
  • Fun with vibrant pink petals from the flower garden
    Fun With Flowers.jpg
  • A Moody Mourning Dove searched for seeds near pink coneflowers in the garden
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  • A Female Northern Cardinal Perched On An Old Log In My Flower Garden
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  • A Yellow Wildflower Macro From The Side Of The Road
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  • Velvet Red Petals Glow From This Floral Macro Taken at Midnight
    Velvet Petals - Midnight Garden.jpg
  • A Multicolored Gerbera Daisy In The Garden With Bold Contrasted Fine Details and a Fine Art Feel.<br />
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These Daisies bloom in nearly every color (except true blues and purples) and produce fantastically large flowers on long, thick, sturdy stems. They last for a week or more in the vase, making them a favorite of flower arrangers.<br />
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Take one look at this beautiful Gerber daisy, and you can't help but bask in the perfection of Mother Nature. It's not just the perfect green stems climbing high as they (sometimes) curve and twist, it's not the delicate petals on the bloom, nor is it the exquisite flower center - it's the way all of these things work together.
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  • A Soft Red Tulip In Early Morning Light Brings A Smile From The Garden
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  • A lovely and beautiful flower wishing us a good afternoon from the garden.
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  • Pastelated Florets - Orginally a macro cloeup shot of small garden flowers (Sweet William Dianthus I believe) with a bit of flare to hit the mood I was after
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  • A pattern of rustic red chrysanthemum blooms with a textured grunge pattern. These vibrant flower blooms from garden with a bit of a fine art flare.<br />
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Chrysanthemums, often called mums or chrysanths, are perennial flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae which are native to Asia and northeastern Europe. About 30 species have been described
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  • A Puffy Pink Peony Greets You From The Morning Garden
    Good Morning Peony.jpg
  • A Soft Pink Peony From The Neighbors Garden
    Pink Peony Glow.jpg
  • A macro shot of a fresh pink rose bloom from the garden with a fine art feel
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  • A purple flower from Grandma's Garden with a scratch green backdrop and an touch of an antique vibe
    Grandma's Violet Blossom.jpg
  • The genus name is from the Greek echino, meaning hedgehog, an allusion to the spiny, brownish central disk. The flowers of Echinacea species are used to make an extremely popular herbal tea, purported to help strengthen the immune system; an extract is also available in tablet or liquid form in pharmacies and health food stores. Often cultivated, Purple Coneflower is a showy, easily grown garden plant.
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  • A pink and cream tulip on a textured yellow and floral backdrop with a fine art feel.<br />
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Despite the fact that these flowers can grow in various climates, the tulip unfortunately lives a very short life. They die within three to seven days. However, while they are living, they grow rapidly, even after they have been cut.  It's not uncommon for cut tulip to grown an inch in a vase. In addition to growing after being cut, tulips are also known for moving around vases. This is because tulips will bend and "droop" in the direction of light.<br />
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Tulips are thirsty flowers and will drink a lot of water, so you will want to make sure to add new fresh water to the vase often. You can trim their stems with a knife to help them drink easier. There's no need to put any sort of flower food in the water. Tulips will be fine with plain water. Their stems can have up to a dozen leaves, but most have closer to six.<br />
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Tulips grow in a vast array of vibrant colors including yellow, red, pink, purple, orange and more.
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  • Canna (or canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants. The species have large, attractive foliage and horticulturists have turned it into a large-flowered and bright garden plant. In addition, it is one of the world's richest starch sources, and is an agricultural plant. Although a plant of the tropics, most cultivars have been developed in temperate climates and are easy to grow in most countries of the world as long as they can enjoy at least 6?8 hours average sunlight during the summer.<br />
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The plants are large tropical and subtropical perennial herbs with a rhizomatous rootstock. The broad, flat, alternate leaves, that are such a feature of this plant, grow out of a stem in a long narrow roll and then unfurl. The leaves are typically solid green but some cultivars have glaucose, brownish, maroon, or even variegated leaves.
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  • Pretty Pink Vibrant Petals Pushing Through The Evening Sunset Garden Light
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  • A bunch of phlox growing in the garden out back
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  • A Deep Orange Marigold Flower on a Blue Backdrop in the Garden
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  • One of the new rose blooms from the garden. I was inspired on the processing from a shirt my wife has that has some tribal swirl patterns and roses on it.
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  • Not sure what kind of flower this is so any information will be appreciated...This shot was taken a few months back at the Minnesota Arboretum.
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  • Not sure what kind of flower this is so any information will be appreciated...This shot was taken a few months back at the Minnesota Arboretum.
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  • Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico and Central America. A member of the Asteraceae family of dicotyledonous plants, its garden relatives thus include the sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum, and zinnia.
    Dahlia In Heat.jpg
  • The Eastern purple Coneflower genus name is from the Greek echino, meaning hedgehog, an allusion to the spiny, brownish central disk. The flowers of Echinacea species are used to make an extremely popular herbal tea, purported to help strengthen the immune system; an extract is also available in tablet or liquid form in pharmacies and health food stores. Often cultivated, Purple Coneflower is a showy, easily grown garden plant.
    Colored Pencil Coneflower.jpg
  • A Yellow Centered Purple Starburst Flower Along The Road
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  • A Paper Kite Butterfly Rests On Top Of Fluid Pink Floral Blossoms In The Garden.<br />
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The Paper Kite, Rice Paper, or Large Tree Nymp butterfly (Idea leuconoe) is known especially for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions. The Paper Kite is of Southeast Asian origin.
    Paper Kite on Liquid Blossoms.jpg
  • A traced pink rose from the garden with a blue scratched background texture.
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  • Little Petals Of Sunshine Color Pop From The Garden
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  • The last rose of the year from my garden
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  • A lily from my garden on a backdrop of green catching the morning light that casts a soft glow on the petals.
    Morning Lily Glow.jpg
  • A Deep Maroon Electric Lily From The Garden
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  • A traced pink rose from the garden with a blue scratched background texture.
    Rose Scratched Blues.jpg
  • A tiny yellow teacup rose from the garden
    Tiny Yellow Teacup Rose.jpg
  • Peach Rose Blooms From The Garden - The recent storms have really destroyed most of my roses, but I still have a few peach rose blooms left
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  • Broken Orange Petals Still Display Beauty From The Garden
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  • A Purple Petunia Pops From The Morning Garden Light
    Poppin Purple Petunia.jpg
  • A Red Daylily backed by garden green a morning bokeh
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  • Soft Petals From The Garden Pop Off A Backdrop Of Blue
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  • Fresh new blooms in the garden inspiring me with a bit of a dreamy touch
    Visions From A Rose.jpg
  • The spring bloom is a strong increase in phytoplankton abundance that typically occurs in the early spring and lasts until late spring or early summer. Spring blooms typically last until late spring or early summer, at which time the bloom collapses due to nutrient depletion in the stratified water column and increased grazing pressure by zooplankton.<br />
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This week the earliest of spring flowers are starting to dot the landscape with color and the tree buds give a promise of warmer days ahead. Daffodils are in full bloom, as well as crocus and dwarf iris. Color is just beginning to peek out from the hyacinths, showing hints of purple and pink. <br />
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Spring flowers come along and cheer us up at a time when we most need it -- after we've somehow survived another long winter. Speaking for myself, it wouldn't be going too far to say that they help me convalesce as I recuperate from Old Man Winter's months-long blustery barrage.
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  • It's only a hiding spot until it takes root and I have corn growing in there
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  • A squirrel stops by for a quick snacking grabbing some seeds from the garden bed that had fallen from the feeder above
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  • Large pink and purple petals one each cluster surround pointy yellow florets from the center in this flowing fine art floral shot from a garden.<br />
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I have not been able to get an identification on these flowers yet, try as I have.
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  • A Field of Electric Petal Silver Lilies in Black and White
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  • Monday Morning Light Casts a Glow on this Delicate Orange Zinnia Bloom
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  • Our roses in our backyard our blooming like crazy and drawing bees and spiders.
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  • Yup, it's October 7th and I still have new rose blooms. This is an Alex Rose, I had a section of pink ones, and another of white that have grown together and are producing these beauties
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  • Soft white tulips whisper in the blue midnight glow reaching towards the shining the way
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  • A beautiful rose to brighten everyone's day. I had a lot of fun processing this shot. Enjoy :)
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  • A floral assortment bunched together in Grandma's Garden
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  • Move Along - Nothing To See Here, I'm Just A Furry Garden Gnome...
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  • The longwing butterflies have unusually long lifespans and high fecundity rates, which largely result from their augmented diet. Instead of surviving on food stores from the larval stage or solely sipping flower nectar, adult longwing butterflies are avid pollen eaters. These trait make them eminently suitable for butterfly farming and butterfly gardening. Also, Adult Longwings may live for several months, much longer than most butterflies.<br />
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The longwing butterflies are also known as Heliconians. They are brightly colored butterflies with long forewings. Once placed in their own family, they are now considered closely related to the fritillaries. Larvae of most longwings  feed on passion vines, and this host plant imparts noxious chemicals to the larvae which are carried over to the adult butterflies. This relationship is identical to the monarch butterflies' reliance on its host plant, milkweed, for defense. Predators find these chemicals distasteful and avoid eating the butterflies.
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  • Well, everything in the garden is pretty much dead now, so time for a different perspective on flowers :)
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  • A yellow buttercup flower from the garden over textured pastel
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  • Purple Details and White Petals In The Garden
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  • A Yellow Flower Blooming In The Garden
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  • Hemaris thysbe, the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth or Common Clearwing (wingspan 38-50 mm), readily visits flowers by day throughout the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, where it ranges far to the north, even into the Yukon. It is not difficult to see why many gardeners would mistake an Hemaris thysbe moth for a small hummingbird as it hovers, sipping nectar from flowers through a long feeding tube. The moth hovers briefly, sipping for only a few seconds before darting off to a new flower. Green body "fur" and burgundy wing scales suggest a small ruby throated hummingbird.
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  • Daffodils come in all sizes from 5-inch blooms on 2-foot stems to half-inch flowers on 2-inch stems. Largely for show purposes, but also for guidance in gardening, certain species and named cultivars have been determined to be miniatures and must compete by themselves in daffodil shows.<br />
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Depending on  which botanist you talk to, there are between 40 and 200 different daffodil species, subspecies or varieties of species and over 25,000 registered cultivars (named hybrids) divided among the thirteen divisions of the official classification system.<br />
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Narcissus is a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, bulbous perennials in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Various common names including daffodil, narcissus, and jonquil are used to describe all or some of the genus
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  • Creamy White and Pink Petals Push Their Way Up In the Garden
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  • A row of multi-colored gerber daisies from the garden from a stem-up perspective.<br />
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Gerbera daisy flowers exhibit large (4") blooms with yellowish central disks surrounded by colorful rays. The rays are most commonly yellow, red or orange. However, growers have also produced varieties in white, pink and violet. Gerbera daisy flowers reach a little over one foot in height, with a width slightly less than that.<br />
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 Whether you are growing gerbera daisies as perennials or as annuals, water them faithfully; and fertilize regularly for optimal blooming. Gerbera daisy flowers are susceptible to crown rot, so don't plant them too deeply. They are also susceptible to powdery mildew, so avoid overhead watering; and water the plants early in the day. Plants bought at the florist should be introduced only gradually to direct sunlight outdoors; otherwise, they'll wilt.
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  • A fun flowering bush with glowing petals contrasted against a dark background with purple, pink and cream florets.
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  • A cluster of purple Garden Phlox that was planted around my neighbors mailbox with a bit of a fine art flare.
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  • Yup - Definitely Up To No Good
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  • Well it seems that Mr. Squirrel has found my birdfeeders and is looking to find a way up
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  • A White-Breasted Nuthatch in a typical pose on the side of a tree
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  • A Bold Yellow Flower Pops From The Garden
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  • A Vibrant Yellow Flower From The Garden
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  • A closeup of what I believe to be a Clipper Butterfly in the garden on my Aster flowers
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  • Drive along the North Shore of Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors, Mn. and you will come across a cafe.  A cozy, charming building nestled behind a gorgeous garden; filled with a vast variety of herbs, vegetables and fragrant flowers.  From the outside, this cafe looks quite simple but what awaits one inside is anything but ordinary.  Since its conception back in 1999, Scott Graden's New Scenic Cafe has grown exponentially; continually amazing customers with its unique, exquisite menus, serene atmosphere and impeccable service.
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