This graceful flower is related to amaryllis and is a bulb. I saw it growing happily in mass plantings in Mexico in the early spring, and here it was in Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania in May.

Soft yellow clivia macro

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Last spring I was in Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia. Enjoy the light, as we are in our gray weather now, here in Seattle.

Huge old white dogwood tree in Longwood Gardens, PA

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Snow is forecast so I went outside to grab the nasturtiums and whatever else showed some color.

Roses, orange nasturtiums, yellow winter jasmine, and a stem of dusty miller blooms on a sunny December day

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Seattle’s gray weather can start to get to me. Here’s a glimpse of summertime, some blue hydrangeas.

Lacy blue hydrangeas blooming in summertime

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Another showy magenta flower from May of this year.

Deep magenta clematis flower, with its exciting yellow center

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Here’s a shot from the other side of the year. Raindrops look good on summer flowers!

Old-fashioned Rose Campion with gray-green foliage, bedecked with raindrops

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Saw this remarkable house in Edmonds, WA. Guess an artist lives there!

Entire outer wall of home in Edmonds, WA is covered in multi-colored fabric art.

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The weather in Seattle is supposed to get seriously rainy, after some very fine fall weather. The only thing to do is go out and cut all the open roses for bouquets, because they’ll only get destroyed. Bonus image below of the bouquets!

Cut the open roses in my garden ahead of the rain coming

And here are the bouquets they made, on my kitchen counter.

Garden roses smell so heavenly. These bouquets will go throughout the house.

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Just a few short weeks ago, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

Leaves throw sharp shadows against an old tree trunk

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I think this is the cutest succulent I ever saw, in Edmonds WA, growing low on the ground, outdoors on a downtown street. With a name tag!

Kalanchoe Thrysiflora ‘Flapjacks’ each one about the size of my hand

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