The bleeding heart (decentra) begins to bloom in my garden.

Pink and white bleeding heart flowers start to bloom

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From the #NWFGS archives, a sweet bouquet.

Lavender and white roses in a bouquet at Seattle’s NW Flower & Garden Show

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More backyard magnolia magnificence.

Pink and white Japanese magnolia lifts its face to the sun

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It’s been an early spring in the Pacific Northwest, and we so appreciate it!

Pink and white Japanese magnolia begin to bloom against a blue sky

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I don’t usually have difficulty choosing one image to post, but sometimes I just can’t decide. The one with the sun showing, or not?

Plum tree blooming against a sunny springtime sky

Plum blossoms on the tree in springtime

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In front of my house yesterday, the old-fashioned forsythia in full bloom.

Bright yellow blooms of the forsythia shrub bloom in early spring

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Yet another ravishing flower from the recent Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Do enter NWFGS in the search field at right for more lovelies.

Red and yellow spotted orchids. Even the bud has spots!

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At the Northwest Flower & Garden Show there was something you just don’t see every day, a “wedding cake” made entirely of plant material. Isn’t this slice of “cake” adorable? Be sure to scroll down a few photos for several more I posted last week from last year’s show, or just put NWFGS in the search box at right.

Here’s a no-calorie version of a slice of faux chocolate cake, with moss and flowers

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At the fabulous Flamingo Gardens in Florida there were many peacocks. I have never seen one doing its display before.

Close up of peacock in full display mode

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Hellebores are so welcome in winter. Their simplicity is so lovely, even from the back.

White hellebore with a slight blush of pink blooms in Seattle in late January

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