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Yellow iris

 I love seeing all the neighbors’ flowers come up Photo: Maley Neil

Flowering foxglove in garden

South Garden

Flowering Obedient stalk in a local Cooper neighborhood garden. Photo: Katie Simon-Dastych

bee on a flower in a city garden

Busy Bee

This bee, like me, trying squeeze every last ounce of goodness out of this final day of summer! Photo: Roxanne Dunlop

yellow flower blossoms atop oval-shaped, spiked cactus leaves

Cactus Flower

Struck that this cactus survives our winter. Photo Susan Purdle

A single bee on an orange flower against green foilage

Flowers and Bees

Bees are enjoying the abundance of nectar. Photo: Julie Smith

fat black and yellow bumblebee with whitish wings crawling on the yellow stamen of a bright orange flower bloom

Autumn Nectar

Bumblebee getting nectar from Mexican sunflower. Photo: Roxanne Dunlop

purple and yellow cone-shaped flower closeup with fuzzy background of streetscape

Lovely Lupine

Manhattan Lights Lupine adorns boulevard. Photo: Chris Balck

closeup peony flower with bright white-magenta petals, deep green leaves, against a wooden background

Peony

Backyard in bloom… Photo: Jane Strauss

A bee sits atop an orange-petaled flower with yellow center on a fat green stem with other flowers, greenery, and blue sky blurred in background

Bee Time

Busy at Longfellow Gardens… Photo: Sue Romain