Flower Photos

So I may have put some of these on before but I am in love with these tulip trees. Plus I know the flowers will be gone soon.

All of the good flowers are so high up I couldn't get a photo looking down into the flower. And the ones that I found on the ground were to far gone. Any way you can almost see the inside of this one.

this is a couple of the flowers on the clematis that I bought last week. I had always wanted one and they just won't grow in New Mexico. I tried but they refused in that hot, dry weather. 

 Close ups of honeysuckle blossoms. In the morning the sweet smell is almost over powering it is so strong.

 Wild flower found by the road while walking Ziva.

I have been pleasently suprised that there is a clump of some sort of yucca in our yard. The neighbors have some, too. I didn't know there was any kind of yucca that would live in this much wet. I think the ones we had back in New Mexico would rot with this much water. Have been looking yuccas up but can't find this one, or at least that it is this one for sure. There are several different types of yuccas and some kind or another can be found over most of the Americas. 

Tulip Tree

I found a new tree in our neighborhood. One I was not familiar with. It's the tulip tree. I guess people that live in Kentucky and this area of the U. S. know about them. I had heard of them but never seen one until I moved here. And even then I didn't know what it was until they started blooming this week. I knew we had several oak trees in our yard and assumed this other big tree in the back was another oak as the bark looked like an oak. And when it started to leave out the leaves did have almost an oak leaf look to them. But the other day while walking the dog down the road by our place I noticed strange orange and yellow petals on the ground. I looked all around that area and couldn't figure out where they came from. Later that evening taking another walk I happened to look up and saw saw these beautiful tulip shaped flowers high in a tree we had thought was an oak tree. I knew what it was as I had read about them but was it ever a surprise. Now that we knew what we were looking for we discovered several tulip trees behind our property and a lot more down the road from us. I took lots of photos of them and was sure glad to have a good zoom on my camera as most of the flowers are way over my head. Because of the color of the flowers they don't show up that much and almost look like a different kind of leaf on the tree until you learn to see them.

 We figure this big tulip tree in our yard, which is the only one actually on our property is about 40 feet tall and must be quite old considering the size of the trunk.

The base of the tulip tree is about 3 to 4 feet across and has a Virginia creeper (I think) growing up it.

this is a good view of the leaves and a flower bud.