Below is a gallery of flower and
botanical
close-up photographs shot in Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Florida,
Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah. While some of the plants were photographed in
botanical gardens, others were shot in the wild and many I grew. I collect and grow a lot of unsual
plants and I have a particular fondness for tropicals and plants of
unusual
size. One of the most interesting plants shown
here is the
night-flowering Cereus that blooms only one night a year and the
blossoms last for only that one night, by dawn they are faded. The
Cereus blossoms are the size of a dinner plate and you can smell the
scent
hundreds of feet away; several of my plants are over seven-feet in
height and the original plants were a gift of Phil Perrigo (who has
grown Cereus plants with more than 25 plate-size blossoms on a single
plant). Also interesting is the Clivia Miniata (also
known as Bush Lily or Kaffir Lily) which is a particularly beautiful
houseplant and I have one of the largest specimens that I've seen--more
than three feet in diameter. The water lilies were shot at Longwood Gardensjust
south of Philadelphia.
