Red Amaryllis Flowers

 Red amaryllis flowers blooming in May 2012. Plant usually blooms later in the year. Another odd aspect is that the stalk only has two blooms and not the normal four. As of this writing a second bloom stalk has started which I assume will have two more blooms on it.  Seems plant wants a staggered blooming pattern for this year.

Blooming Red Flowers

Red flowers blooming in Clark County, Indiana.

Red Day Lily

The red day lillies are in bloom in Louisville, Kentucky.

Flowers at Falls of the Ohio State Park

Blooming red and orange-yellow flowers at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana.

Red Amaryllis

Red amaryllis flower blooming in Louisville, Kentucky. I have four plants and hope one will bloom each year.

Frilly Petal Red Tulip

Red frilly petal tulip growing at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana.

Red Tulip

Red Tulip blooming at the Falls of the Ohio State Park

Clarksville, Indiana

April 2010

Red Day Lily

Red Roses

Red roses growing in a garden outside of Louisville, Kentucky.

Wild Poinsettia

I did not know these plants grew outside of Mexico. So I was surprised to see this one growing near an air conditioning compressor outside of Louisville, Kentucky.

The plant is known as Euphorbia heterophylla.

Flowers in a Planter

Here are some unidentified flowers in planters I found on a patio in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Mini Red Roses

Here is a miniature red rose bush I found in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Red-Yellow Flower

Red Azalea Flowers

Here are some pictures taken in southern Indiana across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. The red flowers are from an azalea bush.

Red Violet Azalea in the Sun

The azalea flowering shrub are blooming in the Louisville Kentucky area right now. I was at a lost to name what color this is so I looked at a Crayola box of crayons and it seemed to match the color red-violet best.

Apparently this plant is part of the Rhododendron genus.

Three Amaryllis Blooms

When it comes to flowers this flower really knows how to bloom!

Amaryllis/Hippeastrum In Full Bloom

The Amaryllis or Hippeastrum is really starting to bloom. It now has 3 of its 4 blooms open. Since this plant seems to bloom each year about this time I decided to try out the time lapsed photo mode on the Canon Powershot Pro1.

It is a nice feature that I did not quite understand when photographing the night blooming cactus. The first bloom I took pictures of every 15 minutes but made the error when setting up the flower in the frame to allowing open area for the flower to expand. So the flower which seems to move about 2 cm an hour, gradually expanded out of the frame over 12 hours.

The next bloom I left room for the expansion in the frame and let the camera shoot for 20 hours. I want to stitch the images into a fast movie but since they are all in RAW format it will take a while to convert.

The photos here show two of the full bloom at night and in the day time. Also a macro shot of one of the petals.