Tiny Zinnias, 3x5 Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Floral Daily Painting

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I think that's enough flowers for now. I am getting the urge to paint the beach, but who knows what will strike my eye next? These tiny paintings have been fun and I do love my garden, but the Devilweed is about to get me. It creeps under the ground and pops up everywhere. As if it's not hard enough to weed in the hot weather, this stuff has to give me a tug of war to get it out. If anyone has a solution for  this heinous weed, please tell me!

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Bronze Daylily, 3x5 Oil on Wood Panel Small Daily Painting

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 I enjoy painting these little paintings of flowers from my garden. This one goes nicely with two of my other paintings, "Blanketflower" and "Golden Daylily." This is a 3x5 original oil painting on wood panel, and it comes with its own little easel.

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Golden Daylily, 3x5 Oil on Wood Panel Daily Painting

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I've been painting tiny daily paintings lately, inspired by the flowers in my garden. This double daylily is one of my favorites. A little easel comes with it. 

Bees are very endangered now, but I have finally seen one buzzing around my flowers. Just one. It is a honeybee, and it's busy doing its work. I don't recall seeing any last year, so I'm happy to see one. Is it the same one every day? Or different ones? I wonder.

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Lily of the Nile, 3x5 Oil on Wood Panel, Daily painting with easel

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This is another painting in my series of flowers from my garden. It comes with a little easel, and goes nicely with the zinnia painting below, which is also in my Etsy shop at this link.

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Blanketflower, 3x5 Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Daily Painting

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I've been painting flowers from my garden lately, and this one is in my "Xeriscape" section. People mistakenly pronounce it "Zeroscape." I had a section of my yard that didn't get enough water, so I went to the native plant nursery (which I call the Weed Farm) and bought plants that are native to Florida. This one has done quite well. There is a house around the corner with a yard planted in nothing but native plants, and I must say, it looks like a deserted property. It is in a neighborhood with landscaped yards and the contrast is startling. It is a lesson to me not to plant things haphazardly and make it look like a weedy mess. We have our very own snake in the yard, and one is enough. It doesn't bother us, we don't bother it; however, I feel that excessive, unplanned Xeriscaping could harbor many snakes and rodents. No thank you!

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