This variety is called a dinner plate dahlia. Gotta dig them up every year. If you trim off all but one of the buds and give it lots of sun and well drained water you end up with flowers the size of your

While dahlias are harder to grow than a lot of plants in my area, and I have killed a great many over the years. . . They are just worth every effort.

Here are a few more shots of this cool plant. Just to give you an idea of how this plant glows. I do think of this plant more as a wildflower then a weed, but then again that does depend on your definition

This little beauty, also know as "butter and eggs" could be considered a weed. It can be persistent and prolific. It can grow in very little space and with little water as well. This photo series

Here are two more macro shots of the same subject. This is another bulb I couldn't seem to regrow. It seems the more unusual bulbs are tastier and less hardy.

Yeah, this spiky plant is indeed a daffodil. This photo was taken with a point and shot on macro.

Macro shot of a pair of orange tulips.

Macro shot of a pair of orange tulips in the back yard.

Continued story with current subject, orange tulip.

Here is another tulip variety, not sure of the name of this one, but I love the color and shading.

Here are a few shots this type of tulip They only can up the first year. After that just the leaves same up but now flower on all but 2 of them. Then after that nothing. I.m not sure if we did something

I thought that theses flowers were forget-me-nots, but after the first flowering Grow some big heart shaped leaves. This plant is called Heartleaf Brunnera It is very hardy and will come back again and

This flower I have had such a hard time catching the beauty of this flower. Each stem has multiple flowers. They come back every year and seem to be pretty hardy. I would recommend them for any garden.

This is a photo taken in an old garden. A closeup of a double iris. This shot captures the paper quality surrounding the bud. These flowers are surprisingly big and beautiful when they open. I will be

These photo, taken with a point and shot on macro, . . are of an allium flower. This plant is a bulb flower related to the onion and with care will come back every year.

This is a common flower often treated as a weed but historically was used to treat whooping cough, bronchitis and sore throat. Trifolium pratense! Boom. P.S. Thank you steemit for auto saving my most.

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Of all the allium photos taken in this set this one is stylistically my favorite. It may soon be a cover photo.

This relative of the onion can have flowers the size of a basket ball. It can also come in some other colors. This flower is literally an explosion of flowers from a central point.

This is the bloom of the allium plant. The bud that was previously gonna eat you. I chose to re-post this directly on steemit and not through steepshot as i have been due to the changing of their tag settings.