I impose my own criterion for my Sunday Picture Post: Whether Flora or Fauna, they must be native and found growing wild. But occasionally I find something simply stunning, that doesn’t conform. Fortunate for me, one of the titles in the #2019picoftheweek challenge is Flower. So here I submit it.
Rhododendron and Bee: 24th May 2019
For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge see MariaAntonia
crispina kemp 
Gor-ge-ous!!
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I thank you, Dale. Even though you’ve already seen the photo! 🙂
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Our little secret ..😁
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I won’t tell if you don’t 🙂
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Very pretty!
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I thank you. 🙂
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I took a photo of a beautiful purple forget-me-not last week and I am still trying to figure out something to write to go along with it.. This is gorgeous! of course I would think so seeing as how purple is my favorite color.
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I thank you, Violet. But don’t fret over the words. Just post it; perhaps say what it is. Let us all enjoy it. Or repeat the explanation you’ve given here.
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I am crunched for time in which I have connectivity lately, so maybe that would be a good way to post once a week or so. I just might give it a try tomorrow in unison with your Sunday photos.
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Excellent. If it’s any help, my post goes out at 12 noon GMT.
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I love the title and the flower is beautiful. It’s killing me that I can’t name it. I know the leaf. Please 🙂 tell me.
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I see you’ve caught it. The rhododendron is a native of the Himalyas, not the pancake flat wilds of Norfolk. And thus doesn’t qualify for the Sunday spot.
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What a shame
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Ah, I see I missed the caption LOL Rhododendrum…. A beautiful perennial in these parts 🙂 Wonderful photo!
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I thank you. It was excessively planted by Victorians in the country parks, and thus has become a marker of such.
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It must be a beautiful site
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This specimen was growing as part of a hedge. Beyond it was a conifer plantation. Few of the country estates remain intact after the social changes of two world wars.
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Beautiful!
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I thank you. 🙂
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Worth breaking your rules to share!
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I thank you. Though I didn’t break them, I merely made use of Maria’s challenge
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Nice! I like that you also captured the bee. I love getting that extra little touch to my flower pics. 🙂
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In truth, it was the bee I was going for, since, as I said, I don’t usually feature not-native plants.
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Stunning photo! And as far as meeting your criteria, you could always argue that this is *actually* a picture of the bee, and that this non-native flower snuck into the background somehow. 🙂
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I like, I laugh. Yea. that surely was the way to go.
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