Tulips naturalize if conditions are just right. They don’t like any water in the summers. But bluebells bloom anywhere, and just at the same time. Good combo, yes?

Yellow, orange and red tulip with bluebells

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I know this is similar to a post last week, but it’s so pretty!

Lace cap hydrangeas in the entry of the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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I adore gardenias. They were my mother’s favorite flower.

Raindrops only add to the perfection of this intensely fragrant gardenia blossom.

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Anyone know this one? LATER NOTE: Appears to be a kind of Leucospermum, also known as pincushion protea.

Unusual large orange flower with thin petals and curls in the center. Know it?

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These darling checkered tulips (not really, but that’s what they’re sometimes called) were enjoying a beam of sunlight at the recent NW Flower & Garden Show in Seattle, WA. #NWFGS

Fritillaria, or checkered tulip, can be seen in antique still-life paintings, and is easily grown in Pacific NW

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Taken at the NW Flower & Garden show in Seattle on Friday, this amazing rose. #NWFGS

This orange and pink David Austin rose wowed me at the garden show

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Blooming at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, Strongylodon macrobotrys, or jade vine. The spent flowers fall still looking perfect, but unreal. Below the three fallen flowers is the plant as it grows. Isn’t that color like nothing you’ve ever seen? So graceful. LATER NOTE: This plant is blooming for the first time in 20 years!

Fallen blossoms of the jade vine blooming at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

The jade vine, in bloom

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Valentine’s Day was yesterday.

Pink roses in a bouquet with baby’s breath

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Sometimes the bud is almost more thrilling than the flower. The sense of possibilities!

Red Lion amaryllis bud about to open

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This deep pink azalea with white edges was blooming at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle.

Double pink azalea with white edges blooms in the Volunteer Park Conservatory

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