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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Here’s mine, Terri: https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/robbies-inspiration-tanka-tuesday-dverse-evolution-of-love-the-flower-hour/
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Gorgeous pictures, Terri. I love the horse picture.
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Thank you, Robbie! I enjoyed creating the horse Pic!
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Beautiful blossoms, Terri!
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Thank you, Sandy!
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I like horses and this photo, Terri. Hoping for a year of prosperity!
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Thanks, Hazel, may 2026 be just that and more!
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Here’s my contribution to Flower Hour Terri. Verbena and a busy bee:
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[…] at how quickly a few of my plants turned to blooming. So, just as quickly, I thought I’d share on Terri’s Flower hour while I […]
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Lovely cherry blossoms Terri. There’s an annual cherry blossom festival not far from here, and every year I forget to take photos when I’m there! Here’s mine today: https://grahamsisland.com/2026/02/18/cockspur-coral-tree/
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Thank you, Graham! We’ll be in Sacramento in mid-March but I will have just missed the blooms of the cherry trees. I’ll be on a flower hunt on my travels.
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[…] The flowers of a Cockspur Coral Tree always catch the eye. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here. […]
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Happy Lunar New Year, Terri! Gorgeous flowers, and I love your AI horse! 💕
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Thank you, Eugi! I enjoyed imagining the horse! Happy Lunar New Year, and first day of Lent!
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You’re welcome, and thank you!
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So pretty.
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Thank you, Ritva!
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Gorgeous flowers, Terri
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Thank you, Cathy! 🌸
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Beautiful, Terri
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Thank you, Toni!
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Those plum cherry blossoms are lovely and full of life, Terri.
A perfect way to welcome the Year of the Horse, with hope blooming everywhere.
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Thank you, Mr Philo! Happy Lunar New Year!
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Oh those cherry blossoms, I can almost smell them! Pretty!
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Thank you, Donna! They grow all over Sacramento this time of year! Not a flower to be seen yet in Spokane!
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Beautiful quote and photos, Terri. I love the horse sniffing the flower… a charming sentiment that made me smile. Happy Lunar New Year!
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Thank you, Suzette! I’m glad I remembered Lunar New Year coincided with my challenge this week and happy to have a couple cherry blossoms in my archives. Couldn’t resist adding the horse!
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You are welcome, Terri. I love Cherry Blossoms. Reminds me of Vancouver in spring.
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Oh, wow! How cool!
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Outstanding.
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The cherry blossoms are beautiful Terri. Another few months for us to see these delicate blooms. Very clever with the horse stopping to smell the flowers. I will have some blossoms with my last bee in my bee series for tomorrow’s Wordless Wednesday to contribute here. My first in-flight bee. It was a gorgeous planter in the City square so a sidewalk background in part.
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Thank you, Linda! WordPress created some interesting images of horses with flowers. I saved two but deleted the others. I look forward to your post!
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You’re welcome Terri. When I was preparing my tribute post I thought it would be nice to use WP’s AI to generate a vintage pic of a stork carrying a pink bundle in its bill. I was going to use a sepia tone to match my featured image. I got some really odd-looking birds. I was aiming for an image that looked like the stork on the Vlasic pickle bottle from years ago. 🙂
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Ai needs more training! 😉
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Definitely – really they were a scream what they sent. I thought it would be fun to add to the post. 🙂
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I love your picture of the cherry blossoms. They should be in full force soon at the Japanese Garden in Balboa Park.
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Thank you, Janis! That sounds like a great outing!
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I love cherry blossoms, one of my favourites. Nice 🙂
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Thank you, Lily!
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The cherry blossom is lovely, Terri! Happy Chinese New Year of Fire Horse.
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Thank you, Miriam! February is a busy month: Valentines Day, Chinese New Year, Fat Tuesday, Lent, and watching the Winter Olympics 😀
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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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Thank you, Barbara! Now that I’m hosting flower hour and making some seasonal connections, I need to get in the habit of taking more flowers and things with flowers. Nicely done on your post!
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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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Thank you, Carol! Glad you found the Flower Hour. I wanted to fill the void left by Cee, even if in a small way.
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Love the cherry blossoms!
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Many thanks, Beth!
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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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Thank you, Pam! I was happy to find a cherry blossom in my files. But no horse, AI helped me 😉
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Fruit tree blossoms are always so pretty. A great macro photo Terri 😀
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Thank you, Brian! We saw a lot of fruit and nut trees in Sacramento. I should have taken more pics when I lived there!
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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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Thank you, Egidio! We had lots of fruit and nut trees in Sacramento that bloomed in February and March. Seemed like good timing with the Lunar New Year.
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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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