The Flower Hour #46: Floral ABCs Featuring P,Q and R

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Hooray, we’re back to the Floral ABCs! This week, we’re sharing three flowers (or plants, or trees!) that begin with the letters P, Q, and R. They don’t have to be blooming or in season right now—anything from your archives is welcome.

If you are playing along with the Floral ABCs, for each letter, you can share at least one flower, plant or tree, or share a bunch (get it?).

Pygmy Date Palm
Pygmy Date Palm, San Diego
Rosy Quince blossom
Quince Blossoms
queen annes lace
Queen Anne’s Lace and Alpine Lupine
lazy susans yellow and orange
Orange and golden Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia)
Raindrops on rose bud
American Beauty Rose

You do not have to participate in this theme at all; simply share a flower, plant or tree of your choosing, as long as it is a version of YOUR original photograph!

The following images are for the Lens-Artists Challenge, “What is it?” theme this week. I found some macros and close-up that actually follow our alphabet prompt!

Can you guess what these are? Hints at end of post

purple petunia
Flower 1
layers of droplets on layers of rose petals
Flower 2
Plumeria water droplets
Flower 3
moody palm trees
Tree 4
flaming pencil cactus
Plant 5

I’m also adding the salvia-loving praying mantis (starts with P–wink, wink) for Brian’s Last on the Card challenge.

praying mantis on salvia
Praying Mantis on Salvia, Last on the Card

Anyone can join the Flower Hour with their original photos. You can also use AI tools to edit or reimagine your images. New flower images are welcome, and archived images are encouraged. 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.

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” ―Sigmund Freud

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KEY: Floral Close-ups and Macros
  1. Starry Night petunia
  2. American Beauty Rose
  3. Plumeria Macro
  4. Moonlit Palm Trees
  5. Plant 5 Flaming Pencil Cactus

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71 responses to “The Flower Hour #46: Floral ABCs Featuring P,Q and R”

  1. […] you doing the ABC Flower Hour Challenge with Terri? It drives me crazy, but I can’t stop myself from […]

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    Such beautiful flowers Terri, I especially love your capture of the gorgeous Quince blossoms! 🩷 Our contribution for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://tranature.com/2026/09/02/tanka-walking/

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  4. Queen Anne’s lace! My favorite in this set of beautiful photos.

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    1. Thank you, Hazel! They’re a pretty, delicate plant that grows wild. I wish i had more pictures!

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      1. Yeah….my pleasure, Terri.

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  5. Beautiful!! I love the quince blossoms – they are so striking! Rudbeckia is one of my favorites, but I’m pretty sure I used it for B – Black-eyed Susan. I grew so fond of them over the years we lived in Maryland because it was the state flower and they volunteered like crazy in my yard. 🙂

    Late in the day – here are my floral alphabet choices for this week: https://morecoffeebreaks.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-flower-hour-floral-ps-and-qs-and-rs.html

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    1. Thank you, Kym! I walked home from church Sunday and at least 4 house had rudbeckias growing happily in their gardens. Along with sunflowers 🌻

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  6. A fabulous gallery of beauty Terri. The Pencil Cactus was the one I didn’t get but now I want one.
    The Praying Mantis is the perfect last photo.
    Thanks for joining in 😀

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    1. Thank you, Brian! Those pencil cactus are seen both in San Diego and Phoenix, Arizona. I’d bet they’d grow anywhere. Well, except here. I knew you would love the praying mantis! She was ready to lay the eggs!

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      1. Pencil cactus would have to be in a pot here. It’s too wet and I’ve had cactus rot from being water logged

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  7. I really like the flaming pencil cactus.

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  8. I really liked the flaming pencil cactus.

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  9. Awesome examples. You are going to have an encyclopedia in a few more posts. Your praying mantis fits in even if he’s not a flower. 🙂 xxx

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    1. Thank you, Marsha! Dang I was going to call you earlier today! The flower guy around blogland is Egidio!

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      1. So he knows all the names! I’m having to ask Chatty, and with so many pictures, it’s an impossible task. Maybe one day I’ll get them all labeled. In the mean time Lightroom shuts down on me every few minutes because it is backing up to One Drive, and One Drive is busily deleting pictures. Every time it sends me a notification, LRC shuts down. Chatty and I are at our wits end.

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  10. These are great Terri…I thought of Quince and there used to be a home near me who had one at one time. It’s one that I thought I’d like to plant.

    https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2026/09/taking-in-life-around-me_0645779579.html

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    1. Thank you, Kirstin! They look very pretty in the spring (in Sacramento).

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  11. Gorgeous!! Love those black-eyed Susans!!

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    1. Thank you, Nancy! I had these Rudbeckia ready and waiting for this challenge!

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  12. There are a lot of beauties here and the dewy-looking petunia and rose are gorgeous. I like the Pygmy Date Palm better than regular Palm trees – perfect shape and if a tree can look cute, well this one does just that!

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    1. Thank you, Linda! I also love that Pygmy Date Palm. In my daughter’s San Diego neighborhood, there are quite a few. And they’re not as huge as the traditional date palms.

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      1. It would be nice to see palm trees year-round, a definite improvement over our leafless trees for almost half the year! 🙂

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      2. Of course San Diego is green all year round with the palms and eucalyptus trees. Fortunately i love the 4 seasons! Autumn in Sacramento and here are amazing!

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      3. I know a lot of people say they would miss the four seasons … I liked them more when they were four distinct seasons. My friend and wife retired to Las Cruces, New Mexico – he was overjoyed to never shovel snow again (he grew up in Indiana and lived in Michigan most of his life). He also was pretty happy he never had to mow the lawn again as the new house had cacti for plants and pea gravel instead of grass.

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  13. There is a lot of beauty to unpack here. The flowers are simply stunning. In the challenge part, flower #3 completely fooled me. Here’s my entry:

    https://throughbrazilianeyes.com/pqrfectly-floral/

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    1. Wait…what? I fooled YOU? The flower scientist? Truly a macro shot of the plumeria! Thank you, Egidio!

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  14. Terri, I love all of the flowers and palm trees but the praying mantis is my favorite. Great flower quiz. I only got the rose.

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    1. Thank you, Beth! You know, one has an entire post planned, carefully curating the right flowers (and extra for me this week for L-A), and the last on the card praying mantis steals the show. Glad you liked my fun quiz!

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  15. Wow, you have some awesome photos! I love the American Beauty Rose and Praying Mantis! Here’s my offering today. 🙂 Hello September! – Cats and Trails and Garden Tales

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    1. Thank you, Susanne! We had an American Beauty rose bush in our yard in Sacramento. I took countless pics of the roses and leaves. Its praying mantis season here!

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      1. Interesting! I’ve only seen a praying mantis once that I remember. Maybe they don’t like the rain!

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  17. Love, love, love this post – top to bottom! Two new ones to me – Quince and Flaming Pencil Cactus. I’d never heard of that species of cactus before. Now I’m wondering if the Praying Mantis can change colours… Do you know? Ours are always green (well, at least I’ve never seen one brown but now I’m going to be on the lookout). Mostly, Terri, thank you for another Flower Hour prompt – I love all the posts it inspires. pp

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    1. Thank you, Pam! Quince blossome are from the quince fruit tree. It was a rare find back in the day. Cacti are everywhere in Arizona and in San Diego where we spend a lot of time. And yes, praying mantis appear in green and in light brown. They blend in so well!

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      1. Truth? I googled “Quince Fruit” because I wasn’t sure if you were pulling my leg. That, too, is a new one to me. Have you tried it? The google response said it is a very popular jam fruit…. Oh, Terri, I’d love to be able to go to Arizona one day. Bucket list, and all. Thanks for sharing such interesting ( and new ) images every week! pp

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      2. I’d seen the quince blossoms in my Dropbox files from 2016. I googled it and voila, quince! Who knew? Nope never tried it!

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  19. How glorious are flowers! They’ve brightened my gloomy north east day (but the company is good). Thanks, Terri xx

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    1. Aww, thanks, Jo! We could use a bit of gloomy here but I’ll be careful what I wish for. The winter dark will be here soon enough!

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  20. The quince blossoms are lovely. Don’t think I’ve seen that before. Also love the close ups and the praying mantis photo makes me realize it’s been an age since I saw one! Here’s mine today: https://grahamsisland.com/2026/09/01/madagascar-periwinkle/

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    1. Thank you, Graham! I can’t recall where I snapped the quince blossoms, likely in Sacramento since every tree grows there. We’ve got a lot of praying mantis now. Seems to be the breeding season. I assume they don’t live in Hawaii?

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      1. We have praying mantises here. I used to see a lot of them, but haven’t in a while. It might just be down to the difference in what and where I go.

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  22. Very clever topic blend Terri! I guessed 2 and 4 and enjoyed them all😊

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    1. Thank you, Tina! I’m always happy to work my current posts with L-A themes!

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  23. I wonder at times if we deserve flowers.

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    1. We do, they are part of our stewardship of the planet! That’s also why God made wildflowers 🙂

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  24. Lovely post Terri, especially that praying mantis!

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    1. Thank you, Anne! It was also fun to add the macros to the mix for Lens-Artists!

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  25. Lovely flowers. I recognized the petunias and the rose

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    1. Thank you, Sadje! Isnt that night sky petunia amazing?

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      1. It sure is amazing.

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  26. Wow! I love the bright and cheerful sub-theme of your gallery, Terri. I could not choose a favorite.

    I had to take a second look before my eyes clued into the magical pose of the Praying Mantis on the Salvia! That’s an awesome and superb capture, Terri.

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    1. Thank you, Suzette! Praying mantis move nice and slow. This was a gravid female posing so nicely on my salvia.

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  27. I thought Quince was a fruit? As usual your collection is beautiful. Now what could I share?

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    1. Quince is a fruit, but it blossoms on the tree every year 😁 Thank you, Bernie!

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      1. It didn’t look like a tree which is what confused me. Do you have a picture of a Quince tree with fruit?

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      2. I don’t, I was lucky I had that old pic of the quince blossom. I had to ID it with google lens!

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      3. Everytime I try goggle lens it tells me holy basil….4 times on 4 different plants. None of which were basil!

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