The Flower Hour #43: The Randoms

For the Flower Hour, share your images of flowers, gardens, fields of flowers, seasonal leaves and plants, fungus, algae, cacti, trees and tree blossoms, berries, and wildflowers. Bouquets and silk/faux flowers are welcome.

Remember, there are no specific themes for the Flower Hour, but please use your own photography from your archives or new images. Your original images reimagined with AI tools in post-editing are also welcome. And you have all week to link to this post.

Delta Ice plant
Ice plants
pink geranium
Pink Geranium
Bougainvillea flowers
Actual Flowers of the Bougainvillea

This black and white gallery of sunflowers is shared for Dan’s CFFC Color Series ending with Monochrome. Don’t sunflowers look amazing even without the glorious yellow?

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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Next week, we’ll tackle the Floral ABCs again with the letters M N O.

“Despite the forecast, live like it’s Spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer

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27 responses to “The Flower Hour #43: The Randoms”

  1. Another great selection of captures. Love the close up of the Bougainvillea.

    Mine: https://mariawijk.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/dandelion-seed/

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    1. Thank you, Maria! The bougainvillea is like a whole other universe!

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  3. All your photos are gorgeous but the macro shot of the Bougainvillea was spectacular.
    I forget that those are the actual flowers within the blooms.
    Thanks for hosting this fun link up. I shared flowers in my post today.
    Have a wonderful day!

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    1. So between learning about the tiny flowers of a sunflower and tiny blooms in the bougainvillea, we get an A+ in biology today! Thanks, Nancy!

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  4. […] is my contribution for this week’s Flower Hour link-up. I took this photo years ago in my family’s back yard. It is actually my cover photo for my […]

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  5. Sort of did it as a triple blog post!

    Flip side & Double challenge

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  6. Lovely post Terri! I really like the Ice Plants – never seen those before (nor even heard of them). Where did you find those, please? Great theme this week – I didn’t need to get creative (and I just know you’re giving me a gigantic eye-roll now!). xx

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    1. Hahaha, you’re too funny, Pam! I think flowers are creative enough, right? The ice plants grow on the side of hills in California. They’re a succulent that flowers seasonally. I captured these years ago at the Sacramento River Delta. (Ice Plant Delosperma–official name).

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      1. Thanks for the Ice Plant info – I really liked that one. xx

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  7. Lovely field of flowers

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  8. Beautiful flowers

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      1. You’re welcome

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  9. beautiful flowers!

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  10. I love those little Bougainvillea flowers, which I suspect most people don’t even notice! Here’s mine this week: https://secondwindleisure.com/2026/08/11/the-flower-hour-43-archives-or/

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  11. […] Allamanda flowers in Hawi. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here. […]

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  12. Wonderful Terri wonderful 👍👍👍

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  13. Stunning gallery in color and monochrome, Terri. I love them all. The ice plant is such a pleasant image of nature’s peaceful moods. Lovely!
    I LOVE your monochrome gallery of the sunflower. Superb!

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    1. Thank you Suzette! I’ve been meaning to share those random old pics. Who would have guessed how nice sunflowers look in black and white? They just steal the show all the time 🙂

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      1. Yes, sunflowers are, it seems, one of nature’s premier show-stoppers!

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    1. Thank you, Kym! Scoured from the archives 🙂

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