"The Greenhouse," Ludger Larose, 1910.
Larose (1868-1915) was a Canadian artist, educated in Paris, and who worked in France and his native Montreal. He's known mostly for his religious work, portraits, and a number of landscapes.
But, for a change, he occasionally did florals, as we see here.
Happy Flower Friday!
From the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City.
A bee-mimic hoverfly hurries to gorge on a clump of lovely Golden Ragwort flowers. This is from my garden where I have plenty of space for #NativePlants.
I'm always looking for #NativeBees on these flowers, a favorite of theirs. When I see them, I'll look up what else they need for their lifecycle and supply that as well.
There are bee homes you can purchase, but sometimes it's just adding sand to soil or placing small pebbles in a good location. Not hard at all.
But wait, there's more! Gem Moth caterpillars eat the leaves. I'll be looking for those caterpillars and moths later.
#HabitatGardening #Nature #Bloomscrolling
#Gardening #BiodiversityGardening #FlowerFriday
If you are a USian lawnlord, you may look down in the early Spring and see many tiny bluish flowers and determine that you have weeds to remove and pull out some weedkiller.
OTOH if you were trying to improve life for early #pollinators, very important, you would let some of these small but complex flowers have their time in the sun.
It's not native to the US and is weedy, but flowers even in late winter, so it can be an important pollen and nectar source when there are few other choices.
Foragers have been known to make tea or decorate foods with this edible plant and flower.
Common Field Speedwell (Birdeye Speedwell or Birds-Eye Speedwell are other names)
Veronica persica
My peony always seems to send up a single bloom just as the camassia planted near it start to fade. #flowerfriday
"Still Life of Flowers in a Basket on a Stone Ledge," Jan Brueghel the Younger, 17th century.
Brueghel (1601-1678) was from a great artistic family; his father was Jan Brueghel the Elder (of course), and his grandfather was Pieter Brueghel the Elder, both exceptional Flemish painters of the Renaissance. Jan the Younger was of the Baroque period, having taken over his father's workshop at a young age, and developing his own style.
He didn't do as many still lifes and florals as his father, but here's one of his most delightful. A lovely jumble of flowers is presented to us in a basket, with tulips, roses, cornflowers, lily-of-the-valley, and other, but Brueghel makes it balanced and harmonious amid all the jumble, rather than a cacophony.
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
To cheer you up, a Viola as a timeline cleanser. This edible one I had in my garden last year. Lovely colours and I see them as happy little flowers. They always make me smile 
Sometimes small parts of flowers seem to be white while actually you can see through them. I love the flower world. Makes me lose sight of the bigger one. I like it; insects and bugs instead of hartles people hating eachother. Flowerlove, flowerpower. 
It's #flowerfriday so here's a Brassavola flowering in my orchid tank. #bloomscrolling #orchids
Shooting Star Columbine (with bonus bugs!)
Cibola National Forest, NM
Bromeliad and air plant display
#McKeeBotanicalGarden 
#VeroBeach FL #FlowerFriday #Flowers
"The Artist's Garden in Giverny," Claude Monet, 1900.
You all know Monet. This is a perfect painting for today; where I am, irises are starting to come out, and I always loved the smell of them. Monet loved his garden and loved painting it, as you can see.
Happy Flower Friday!
“When you look at a field of dandelions, you can either see a hundred weeds or a thousand wishes.” Make a Wish… 
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Mandarin neighborhood, Jacksonville, Florida
