Little flowers give me big smile

I wanted to take some more photos of my sempervivum flowers before they all faded, to show the variety in the blooms. After a few shots though, I realized their differences were subtle.

Perhaps too subtle to monopolize a post, so I found several other small blooms around my garden and included those too. Very few words today.

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As noted, these are various sempervivum flowers. I wonder if they will produce viable seed?

Not like I need more semps, but it would be interesting to grow them from seed to see what sort of hybrids I may have created.

Tiny henbit flowers. I've never looked at them this closely before. Yes, I should have pulled these weeds already, but I don't know if I can now -- it looks like a seahorse king sitting on his undersea throne!

Henbit flowers, although it might be a sea monkey king instead!

The ninebark is flowering now, which is always a wonderful sight:

Is this an assassin bug nymph?

Did you know chive flowers are edible? Sort of sweet and potently oniony. These tiny beetles know they're edible and love eating them apparently:

Not strictly a tiny flower, but this 'Morden Sunrise' rose is so nice:

It's impossible to get the color of this right. It's not this yellow.

And it's not really this orange either.

A few miscellaneous blooms, now that I'm looking for them...

Nepeta 'Walker's Low' -- catmint. One of hundreds of tiny flowers.

A volunteer pea, growing nowhere near my veggie bed.

The uncropped version of this image will burn your retinas.

I love getting close looks at tiny flowers. It lets me see them in ways that I normally wouldn't. Their beautiful and delicate structures and tiny details are not intended for human eyes. You need to get up close, like an insect, to really appreciate them fully.

And I do appreciate them, I really do.

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