Published Wednesday, August 17, 2016, OK personal/derivative use; link lovethatimage.artsquadgraphics.com.
Conservatory display
Today at the incomparable Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle, the Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum)is getting ready to bloom,
The so-called Corpse Lily, a giant, rotting=scented flower, will bloom quite soon
but what pulled me in were the nearby hydrangeas.
Dusty pink hydrangeas, peace lilies, and cannas in a magnificent living arrangement
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This is so interesting. I recently went to see the same flower in your first photo at the National Botanical Garden in Washington DC. It was a little further along than this one but I read that several were blooming at the same time, and one theory was that it was because the seeds had been taken from the same flower and distributed around the country. It really is an extraordinary flower, almost prehistoric looking. Your hydrangeas would draw me in also, beautiful! Thank you for sharing these. Your botanical garden is on my bucket list, one day to be visited I hope.
Corpse lilly, LOL. Love it and those hydrangeas look ready to walk off and take over the room.
Hydrangeas are just the most gorgeous! And its exciting too to see the corpse lily! #photofriday
We had one of those corpse lilies bloom in our Botanic gardens a couple of years ago and the queues to see it in bloom were kilometres long!
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