Azalea

Postcard ID: HK-378850
Country: Hong Kong

Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, particularly the former sections Tsutsuji (evergreen) and Pentanthera (deciduous). Azaleas bloom in spring, their flowers often lasting several weeks. 

The Ma On Shan Azalea Festival is held in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, where six native species (Rhododendron championae, Rhododendron farrerae, Rhododendron hongkongense, Rhododendron moulmainense, Rhododendron simiarum and Rhododendron simsii) are found in the area. The festival has been held since 2004; it includes activities such as exhibitions, photo contests and carnivals.

The card also has great stamp from series 'Astronomical Phenomena' issued in 2015:

Peony

Postcard ID: RU-3987887
Country: Russia

Here is a nice flower Peony. Also I see here many-many envelopes - it's a dream of any postcrosser, huh :)

Btw, I like peonies :)

Japanese wallpaper

Postcard ID: JP-718181
Country: Japan

This card looks a bit strange for me. I like flowers, but in bouquet, or in vase, or in a field :)

The pattern on the card looks like pattern for wallpapers, that's why this post has such name :)

Also the card contains beautiful stamp from series 'Evocative Memory of Seasons' issues in 2014:

Flowers and butterflies

Postcard ID: US-3555022
Country: USA

Here is one more nice postcard with butterflies. 

Some time ago I started to learn drawing. That's the thing that quires practice :) the card looks quite simple, so I decided to try to draw it. I removed butterflies from my view and what I drew in result:

Not so nice as on the card, but I'm just improving my skills :)

A flower

Postcard ID: DE-3722262
Country: Germany

Maybe it's not obvious from my scan, but this is a shaped postcard :)

I really like postcards of this type as all of them are unique :) anyway, all (or almost all) girls like flowers! :)

This postcard also has stamps with flowers:

...and nice owl!

Peony from Russia

Postcard ID: RU-2962944
Country: Russia

At the first sight I noticed only peony. It looks so great, so bright. But then... I saw post envelopes! Ha! I'd like to receive my postcards with flowers too :)

The peony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. They are native to Asia, Southern Europe and Western North America. Boundaries between species are not clear and estimates of the number of species range from 25 to 40.

Most are herbaceous perennial plants 0.5–1.5 metres tall, but some resemble trees 1.5–3 metres tall. They have compound, deeply lobed leaves and large, often fragrant, flowers, ranging from red to white or yellow, in late spring and early summer.

The peony is among the longest-used flowers in Eastern culture and is one of the smallest living creature national emblems in China. 

Here is a new stamp The medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" from Russia:

Flowers of tree

Postcard ID: LT-389979
Country: Lithuania

I'm not good in botany, so cannot identify by flowers what is the tree. Maybe, cherry or apple?

However I really love the time when trees are in bloom. Even in the big city this flavor stands out among all the other.

Here is also an interesting stamp with retro machine:

Papaver

Postcard ID: NL-1884277
Country: Netherlands

Papaver is a genus of 70–100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the type genus of the poppy family, Papaveraceae.

The flowers have two sepals that fall off as the bud opens, and four (or up to six) petals in red, pink, orange, yellow, or lilac.

I'd like to do cross stitch with red poppies :)

Nymphaea alba

This is one more postcard from my friend Joao :)

When I was younger we had at home a book with horoscope for each sign of the zodiac. My sister believe in this, but I'm not really now. However in the childhood I liked to read about colours for my sign, my planet patron an so on. There I knew that flower for my sign is water lily.

Now I don't read horoscopes, but still like these flowers :)

This card also contains really wonderful special edition stamp! To be honest, I even don't know what is better: postcard or stamp? They both are awesome!

Congratulations!

Postcard ID: UA-676098
Country: Ukraine

While I've not received new cards from postcrossers, I continue to describe cards received last year. I've already described almost a half of all my postcards.

This one I received in last July. My Birthday in July, so it's ok to receive cards like this one. It looks like old soviet postcards :)

Some Ukrainian stamps are:

Roses

These beautiful roses was sent to me by my friends on this site Joao. Thanks a lot for your cards and friendship!

Description from the backside of the card:

Rosa 'Lawrence Johnston' and Rosa 'Cupid', a Hybrid tea, by Graham Stuart Thomas. First published ain Climbing roses  old and new (1965)

Graham Stuart Thomas was an English horticulturalist and garden designer, best known for his work with garden roses, his restoration and stewardship of over 100 National Trust gardens and for writing 19 books on gardening, many of which remain classics today.

In his obituary in the LA Times, Clair Martin, rose curator of Huntington Botanical Gardens said: "Thomas set about preserving the heritage of old roses when many of them were on the verge of extinction".

I like flowers, I like these roses, I like this card! :)

Of course, this card has absolutely amazing stamp!

Insects

Postcard ID: BE-269942
Country: Belgium

I think that sender does not have cards with butterflies, so selected gor me card with insects and other animals :)

It seems that letter W means something, but I do not know what indeed. Maybe it's Wild animals :)

In addition to animals we have a nice stamp with flowers:

Vietnam wild flowers

Postcard ID: AU-335937
Country: Australia

This card came to me from Australia, however it shows wild flower from Vietnam. A sender travels so much and decided to make me a surprise with this card. Thank you, Hayley!

As I have received card from Australia quite rarely, I really like the stamps:

From Children to Children

Postcard ID: NL-2093055
Country: Netherlands

As far as I understand from the backside of card (it's in Dutch), this postcard is made by children.

When I got it I already associated it with fairytale about little flowers with seven petals.

Girl Jenya got a magic flower. Seven of its petals are seven wishes that she can execute. The girl did not understand immediately that she got into her own hands, and the first six of her desires are fool and meaningless. Only the last petal makes a real good action.

However with the second sight I saw that there are only 6 petals :) 

Painted by Jan jr. Voerman

Postcard ID: DE-2628800
Country: Germany

It's so interesting to receive postcard from Germany in Russian :) Thank you, Ana!
And also you can see here my favourite butterflies :)

Jan Voerman Junior was born in 1890 in the Dutch village of Hattem, as the son of painter Jan Voerman Senior. Voerman Jr. was taught painting by his father at an early age. As a young boy he was fascinated by the world of animals, plants and insects, and he collected shells and beetles to compose his own still lifes. He would study and observe these objects to become well-acquainted with rendering a perfect image from nature. He was also an apprentice at the Amsterdam Academy and the Academy in The Hague. Voerman Jr. received his first commissioned assignment when he was 15 years old. He was asked to make the illustrations for the well-known Dutch Verkade nature albums, which he did for many years. The Second World War ended this cooperation. From 1939 onwards, he focused exclusively on painting in oil. Like in his Verkade illustrations, subjects from nature dominate the scenes in Voerman’s paintings: landscapes and still lifes with plants and flowers. He would study these items carefully, which is shown in his precisely rendered paintings.