Okay, I have a thing for flowers. I wish my skills matched the beauty my eyes behold, but these came out okay. Enjoy!
I never gave poppies much thought - other than while watching The Wizard of Oz, that is - until catching the scent of them opening at the same time the honeysuckle released its perfume! Wow, what a delightful hour I spent just sitting amid the flowers watching honeybees and bumbles do their work. It inspired me to find seeds unavailable through local stores. This one (above) came out deep lavender but it's parents were so dark purple and ruffled as to look like near-black peonies.
A golden Cosmos flower lit up by the sunset.
Bloodroot flowers, one of the earliest and most cheerful flowers to greet us in Spring here in SW North Carolina. The flower blooms before the beautiful leaf unfurls from the stem. The roots are used commercially in plaque-preventing mouthwash (in very minute amounts! It's very toxic if ingested). People who work with fiber - spinning, weaving etc. may know it as a natural dye that makes hues of orange with the correct mordant. The dried, powdered root (roots are gathered after a frost then dried,) is also made into a paste and applied topically to some skin growths to make them fall off. Read more on the subject before using bloodroot.
These are wild purple morning glories. The camera doesn't do justice to the depth of hue. The wild seed is not always true to color, offering a few shades of blue to rose (more rare,) to lavender and pink with lavender stripes and even white with purple stripes.
