Hydrangeas are so beautiful, all summer long and maybe even more so in the fall as their colors change and intensify.

Purple hydrangeas in the fall garden

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Flowers fascinate me.

Very dark burgundy dahlia and pale one in a small bouquet

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This spiky dahlia is almost prettier from the back. So vigorous and healthy!

Cactus-type peachy-orange dahlia from the back, in the garden

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These shiny tropical flowers, really bracts, are so pretty and much easier to photograph than matte flowers. Anthuriums are also called “sweetheart flowers” and “little boy flowers.” Must be the heart shape, right?

Pink anthurium at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, at night

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Dahlias are the queen of late summer flowers.

Magenta, yellow, orange and red dahlia in sunshine

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In my friend’s dahlia garden, this mandala bud.

Pointy, red-orange petals of a dahlia bud

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A friend grows dahlias. Wow!

Exciting yellow and orange dahlia blooms in the garden

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A flower from my yard, a cosmos.

Cosmos blossom with magenta single petals and a bright yellow center

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Visiting the old, hilltop neighborhood of Port Townsend, WA recently, this pretty pink hollyhock decorated the garden of the old house we were staying in.

Deep pink single hollyhock flowers in Port Townsend, WA on an overcast day

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Gazania is very showy flower, originally from South Africa, seen at my visit to Swanson’s Nursery recently.

Starry, pointy, yellow and red petals of a gazania flower

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