Collection:Flowers in September Camera:Canon Power Shot SX10 IS Location: Botanical Gardens, Ballarat, Vic. Australia Date: Aug 23, 2011 Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1.40 Date Uploaded: Sep 6, 2011
Not really a flower. They are grown as ornamental annuals, often in beds, though this one was in a pot in the hothouse.
I used a processing method that I got from a link that Jutilda put in, though this one wasn't the same tip as hers. This involved a duplicate layer with gaussian blur blended in overlay mode.