Beautiful pictures, it is like you are waiting for the moment when the flowers come up. This is the moment when people do not really pay much attention to them because they are not "ready" yet, it is like the shop is still closed, the moment when the flowers fully blooming everyone's eye caught by it. The first couple of pictures captures such a moment when the petals are wrinkly as they were folded and it is amazing how those sizeable petals could pass in small buds. You are right the red ones look like witches nails and I love that red color. I hope you are going to do more shots of those flowers to show us the process steps how the petals will be unfold themselves. I would like to see the moment when the are fully spread but you still see wrinkles like someone forget to iron them :)