awesome

Lovely

Beautiful!

Such detail! Clean & crisp. Love it!

beautiful

Not a lot of people see the beauty in thistles. Excellent!

Another of one of my fav flowers. Hi res really shows off this image. Excellent!

Might have been better if the 'seed' wasn't quite so centered.

Of course it is allowed to place an item in the middle of the photograph, I was just suggesting that it might have looked better off center.
As to if the seeds are considered flower, I will leave that up to the mod of this contest.

I thought If the flower is dry or blooming or after blooming it's still a flower...