Always so challenging to get the flower border to bloom in concert, right? Even though the light is overcast, the flowers are cooperating, sort of.

Lilies, shasta daisies, and pink phlox in my dry-summer Seattle backyard flower border

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Not everyone knows that the lavender plant comes in several colors, and one is pink!

Pink lavender blooming in my rose garden

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We were lucky enough to have a good rain; Seattle has been quite dry this spring. All the garden plants enjoyed it.

Water droplets like jewels on ribbed hosta leaves. Note the flower buds emerging.

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From the garden of a friend in Kent, Washington, with its beautiful color harmony of pinks and purples.

Garden archway in the Pacific Northwest, with pink astilbe on the right

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Our berry bushes are producing! Thankfully neither the squirrels or the birds seem that interested.

Red raspberries, just picked

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This lavender is at the perfect stage for picking and drying.

Lavender buds just starting to open

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The peony season is so brief.

Lush and fragrant pink peonies, at Trader Joe’s

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This was one exquisite rose in the New York Botanical Garden, in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. The sign said it was developed by “unknown” in 1751. And still perfect.

Ravishingly beautiful and delicate rose ‘Old Blush” #NYBG

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Went to visit a friend in New York and we went to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. I had never seen the huge rose garden there, which was at its peak. If you can ever go, do so. This is less than half of it.

Magnificent triangular rose garden at peak bloom, in New York Botanical Garden

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I don’t usually post food photos, but this was spectacular! We went to the Chihuly Collections Cafe in Seattle and my crab cakes were almost too pretty to eat. But not quite!

Crab cakes with mango-kiwi salsa and edible flowers

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