More than Just a Portrait Lens: the Nikon 135mm 1.8 Plena 

The quality of the lens shines through in your photos,sharp with beautiful background blur

I do sports photojournalism and used the Plena for a recent horse race and indoors for basketball. I have an extension tube and use it for my flower work. For landscape photography I use it for massively detailed panoramas, so, yah. 👍🏾

Like you said, the longer the lens at minimum gives better out of focus backgrounds., Still shooting D810 here when not using the 105 MC G lens, I use the 70-200 VRII or (200-500-usually out looking for birds) 7 the 70-200 at the 4' min focus distance especially at 2.8 goes way shallow for flowers. I want to get some extension tubes for this very reason. I live pretty close to Sandy Hook, go there quite often & guesssing you took the flower photos up at Officers Row in 2023. Happy shooting.