Stack it!

Love macro photography. It allows you to explore and celebrate the delicate, almost magical structures and colours of flowers, and their literally infinite variations. 
But I keep coming up against the perennial problem in macro photography: wafer-thin depth-of-field. It's very often way thinner than even the smallest flower - meaning you can only get one sliver of the subject in focus, with everything else in front and behind decidedly out of focus.
The clever techies use the auto focus-bracketing feature of their camera to get a whole series of pictures taken at a slightly different focus point, then jump on their computer to stack all of those separate photos into one glorious enlarged depth-of-field masterpiece.
The less technically-minded amongst us need to resort to using a camera with an inbuilt auto focus-bracketing feature that well and truly seals the deal by also auto focus-stacking all the bracketed shots into a single composite photo. 
Such as this one, of the tip of the stamen of an hibiscus flower.
Auto focus-stacking is such a great innovation, but it certainly has its limitations. You can never hope to get everything you want in sharp focus, but there's no doubt that it can reliably produce pix with so much better depth-of-field than I could ever hope to get by my own devices.
If that's pulling the wool over peoples' eyes, or cutting corners, or pulling a swifty, or even downright cheating, then so be it. Only check that DoF.