The Four O'Clocks are all volunteer. I moved a few seedlings this Spring and left the rest where they were. I think they are a few generations past the original seed packet now. There were only two yellow flowered plants. I want to save those seeds, so I labeled them. They are open-pollinated so who knows what the seedlings will be. Honeybees don't seem to like them. Despite being Four O'Clocks, they seem to bloom best in the am so should be "Nine Am O'Clocks". :-)
This dark one is especially brilliant. It's not a pure red. I think the marble types interbred with the pure color types.
These are wild petunias. The flowers are the same size as the Four O'Clocks, but the leaves are very different. Also, they stay open in the afternoon, when the Four O'Clock flowers are closed.
I just like taking photos of flowers with bees.
I didn't think the honeybees were into dahlias, but this time there were a few.
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