“A bee gathering on purple coneflower” Prints, Products, and Gifts from Douglas E. Welch Design and Photography

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Capture the buzz of a summer garden with this charming macro photograph. The image centers on a vibrant Purple Coneflower (Echinacea), its soft lavender-pink petals drooping gracefully around the spiky, rusty-orange cone.

The real stars of the show are the two visitors sharing a moment: a fuzzy honeybee resting on the petals and a tiny hoverfly perched right next to it on the cone.

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fading

( Echinacea purpurea )

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"hedgehog on acid"

( #Echinacea purpurea ) 🦔
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floating past the big boys

(Echinacea purpurea)

#Sonnenhut #Coneflower
#PurpleConeflower #Echinacea
#BloomScrolling #Photography
#Florespondence #Gardening
#Fotografie #FleurisTonFil
#NaturePhotography #Nature #Outdoors #Garden #Garten #Photo #Flowers #Pixelfed

Next print in progress, starting with the centre of the echinacea or purple coneflower…

#linocut #washi #printmaking #wip #echinacea #purpleConeflower #flower

The purple coneflowers are pink.

#BloomScrolling #PinkFlowers #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #florespondence #flowers #FlowersOfMastodon

Probably Bombus vagans on the Echinacea purpurea.

#BumbleBee #HalfBlackBumblebee #BombusVagans #bee #pollinators #NativePollinators #insects #PinkFlowers #PollinatorPlants #July16 #BeeMovie #EchinaceaPurpurea #PurpleConeflower #bees

Papilio rutulus, the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, on the purple coneflowers.

#butterfly #PurpleConeflower #EchinaceaPurpurea #PinkFlowers #PurpleFlowers #WhatIsPurple #insects #Lepidoptera #WesternTigerSwallowtail #PapilioRutulus #BloomScrollingWithInsect #flowers

Pollinator plant bed update. The purple coneflowers and bergamot bee balm have started to bloom The anise hyssop has had flowers for a week or so. There are still giant pansies and Johnny jump ups blooming and lots of blue borage and calendula getting flowers.

#PollinatorPlants #EchinaceaPurpurea #MonardaFistulosa #AgastacheFoeniculum #calendula #BeeBalm #borage #ViolaTricolor #ViolaFlower #PurpleConeflower #hyssop #flowers #BloomScrolling #PurpleFlowers #PinkFlowers #YellowFlowers #BlueFlowers

Vergänglichkeit

#Decay #Bloomscrolling #Vergänglichkeit #LateSummer #Spätsommer #PurpleConeFlower #PurpurSonnenhut