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First 'Becky' Shasta Daisy flower of the year
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First Heliopsis 'Summer Sun' ox-eye flower of the year
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First Purple Coneflower flower of the year
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First Easter Lily flower of the year -- Wife's Easter Lily, 2011 Mother's Day present from her mum
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First Daylily 'Baby Betsy' flower of the year
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Daylily 'Chicago Apache'
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Beautiful bright golden-orange corbicula (pollen basket) on a bumblebee (I think)
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Solitary Andrenid Bee (I think) on Butterfly Weed