While at the Indiana Dunes National Park last month, I spotted a white lotus along the Douglas Trail.
Colorful flowers were featured on an earlier post, “After a Summer Rain.”
All photos are my own. ©Pepper Tron/Heavens Sunshine
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Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour
Such a lovely flower and beautiful picture
They are so pretty and delicate looking!
Yes, they are and they are also one of y favorite blossoms.
It’s a shame the blooms don’t last.
I have always wondered why the blooms of some flowers last a long time and others are so short-lived. 🤔
Yes, me too. When I first began gardening, back in 1984, I ripped up all my father’s Irises (as they fell over all the time and I hated reaching underneath to prop them up, even with gloves on). I planted tea roses around the perimeter of the yard … one tea rose took forever to bud, then bloom, then a couple of days later, it was gone, petals on the ground. So I took them all out and put in shrub roses which bloom continuously – they are all that is left of my perennial garden now as they’re so hardy. Everything else died after the Polar Vortex of 2013-2014 or was burned in the downed wire fire in 2022.
Wait, what? A downed wire fire? That sounds so scary!
Yes, we had a neighbor behind, two doors down – his big tree died and they wanted $2,000.00 to cut it down … he thought he’d just leave it and after deciding that, a sizeable branch fell down on the power line, which caught the neighbor’s stockade fence on fire, his garage burned down and it burned my garden … he rebuilt the garage, got a new fence, but I decided not to replant my shrubs and perennials I planted in 1985.
Oh, my goodness! 😮
Scary stuff … he probably would not have taken the tree down, except for the fire and damage.
So beautiful
Thanks, Hammad. 😊
It’s a beauty!
Thanks, Sandy.
I showed it on my Blog.
Beautiful!
Thanks, Gisela.
A beautiful photo.
Thanks, Lynette. 😊
Thank you very much, Lynette. 😊
What a great find Pepper. It is beautiful.
Thanks, Leanne. 😊
How beautiful in its simplicity, Pepper!
Thanks, Terri. 😊
I am curious to know your thoughts.