Thanks to Denise @denisedaly the puzzle has been solved. This poor plant has a history. We bought them to attract butterflies. It was doing really well when a storm broke a huge branch off a tree and it landed right on top of the flowers. We thought they were done for, but they came back.
@tracysphotos@maggiemae@kerristephens@kwind@vickisfotos@peterdegraaff@denisedaly@tuya@pdulis@04haze@monkeykid@amrita21
Thank you for taking the time to view and for your wonderful comments! I really appreciate them all. You got it Denise they are Lantana. We went to a nursery in the Spring and they had two women talk about plants to attract butterflies and Hummingbirds. When the tree fell on these I thought they were done for and when we were cleaning up the mess the little plastic tags with the name must have gotten removed too. The funniest thing happened when I was trying to take this photo. I intended to take a macro of one of the flowers. I had put my 36mm extension tube on the camera and my 18-55mm kits lens. I had it in live view and I was looking at the screen trying to focus when I heard a squeaking noise. I slowly lifted my eyes and I saw a hummingbird hovering about 3 feet away from me. i remained still and it darted from flower to flower until it was 1 foot away. Of course having the extension tube on kept me from focusing on the hummingbird! I hate missing that kind of an opportunity but it was so cool to have it come that close.
@danette@vickisfotos@paulam@amandal@fueast@judyc57
Thank you so much fr taking the time to view and your very kind comments and fav! I had hoped to have seen a butterfly enjoying these by now, but haven't seen one.
Thank you for taking the time to view and for your wonderful comments! I really appreciate them all. You got it Denise they are Lantana. We went to a nursery in the Spring and they had two women talk about plants to attract butterflies and Hummingbirds. When the tree fell on these I thought they were done for and when we were cleaning up the mess the little plastic tags with the name must have gotten removed too. The funniest thing happened when I was trying to take this photo. I intended to take a macro of one of the flowers. I had put my 36mm extension tube on the camera and my 18-55mm kits lens. I had it in live view and I was looking at the screen trying to focus when I heard a squeaking noise. I slowly lifted my eyes and I saw a hummingbird hovering about 3 feet away from me. i remained still and it darted from flower to flower until it was 1 foot away. Of course having the extension tube on kept me from focusing on the hummingbird! I hate missing that kind of an opportunity but it was so cool to have it come that close.
Thank you so much fr taking the time to view and your very kind comments and fav! I had hoped to have seen a butterfly enjoying these by now, but haven't seen one.