This Cherokee rose bush was covered with both blossoms and bees. The bees were so engrossed with the blossoms that they paid no attention to the photographer.

I saw how the sun was shinning through these sunflowers while driving one morning in Hillsborough County Florida.

For me, the gardenia has one of the mosty wonderfully aromatic scents of all of the flowers. This one bloomed on a bush that has been in my mother's yard since 1946.

It almost looks like one of the old Spanish conquistadors got trapped in a palm.

Prickly pear blooming in the spring in the Withlacoochee National Forest in Florida.

It was the juxtaposition between the moss and the yellow flowers and the was that the light hit them that drew my attention.

These beautiful yellow flowers were in a storage area for fill dirt. I was actually chasing a hawk when I found these.

The Mexican Prickly Poppy (argemone mexicana), originally from Mexico, is now found in much of the world.

This beautiful blue iris was found growing in a swamp in John Sargent Park, Tampa, Florida.

Red Calla Lilies

This hanging lobster claw is just one of the many exotic plants found at Eureka Springs Park in Tampa, Florida.

This cypress tree was at the swimming beach at Lake Louisa State Park, Florida.

A white orchid at La Paz Waterfall Garden in Vara Blanca, Costa Rica.