For the Flower Hour, share your images of flowers, gardens, fields of flowers, seasonal leaves and plants, fungus, algae, cacti, blossoms, berries, and wildflowers. Bouquets and silk/faux flowers are welcome.
In 2026, the Lunar New Year begins on February 17th and ends on March 3rd with the Lantern Festival.
“One blossom of hope is all it takes to make a garden.” – Anonymous
According to the Chinese Zodiac Calendar, 2026 is the Year of the Horse. I couldn’t resist adding an A-I-generated horse smelling the flowers 😉
There are no specific themes for the Flower Hour, but please use your own photography. And you have all week to link to this post.
New to The Flower Hour photo challenge? Please check out my page for more information! I encourage “double-dipping” with other blog challenges if you do not want to create a separate post.
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The cherry blossom is lovely, Terri! Happy Chinese New Year of Fire Horse.
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Beautiful blossoms, and I like how the horse picture turned out. Here is my entry:
https://wp.me/p3RE1e-nN0
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I was inspired by you to create my own Fire Horse. Great new To me challenge. https://carolisle.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/flower-hour-and-fire-horse/
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Love the cherry blossoms!
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Thank you for another great challeng! I love your flower images, but I had a jolly good chuckle at your horse with her blossoms! Well-done you!!! xx
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Fruit tree blossoms are always so pretty. A great macro photo Terri 😀
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Oh, what beautiful flowers! I also love their colors. Here’s my entry:
https://throughbrazilianeyes.com/cute-as-a-button/
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The cherry blossom photograph is beautiful and the AI photograph is pretty cool, too. 😊
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Thank you, Smitha! We had a lot of cherry plum trees in Sacramento. They bloomed in February.
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Terri, I love the horse photo. Clever use of AI.
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Thank you, Suzanne! It’s a great tool when needed!
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Despite the fact that I don’t like AI, that horse picture is so cute. At least you acknowledged it was AI generated.
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Thank you Anne! I looked for horses in my files but nothing. AI comes in handy as a tool from time to time. And I always make sure to mark the image as such. The cherry plum blossoms are real and were taken in Sacramento years ago!
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Despite being AI, that’s a pretty cute picture.
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Thank you, Jacqui, it worked for this post.
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Happy Flower Hour Day!
Pretty blossoms and even a horse.
Happy Tuesday!
🌸🌷🌹🌺🌻🌼
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Thank you, Nancy! Couldn’t resist adding the AI horse…I looked through my files for a good horse pic too!
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Horses have huge noses! 😬
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Even A-I ones, LOL, thanks John!
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Yes! So cute. ☺️
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