My friend Cindy has a fabulous garden and her deck is just amazing. This is just a tiny area of it! The time, money, effort, and knowledge she puts into her entire place really shows.

Yellow and white brugmansia (Angel’s trumpet) grace a deck in August in Kent, WA

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A visit to Pike Place Market, so of course there were dahlias.

Pink, red and other colors of dahlias for sale at the Pike Place Market in Seattle

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Before the big rain and wind that was predicted, I picked almost all the roses in the garden.

Peace roses and a magenta pink rose in a bouquet, up close

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My friend Cindy has the most amazing deck, filled with blooming flowers everywhere.

Many colorful flowers blooming on a wooden deck

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Seattle’s hidden gem, the Volunteer Park Conservatory, on a recent late afternoon.

A rainbow of colorful flowers outside the beautiful Volunteer Park Conservatory

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The cream-colored brugmansias (Angels Trumpets) with their long, twisty buds are now in Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory! I adore them, and the scent is truly of the angels.

Pale brugmansia in late afternoon light begin blooming, with croton in the background

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Wish I’d thought to take one of these to sprinkle in my garden.

Dried seed heads of a poppy plant in a garden, about knee high or so

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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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From the Sequim Lavender Festival, just a few lavender plants in the late afternoon sunshine.

Blooming lavender plants in Sequim, Washington

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Not sure if this is dill or fennel, growing outside the window of a house built in the 1890s in Port Townsend, WA.

Herb flowers outside an old window with lace curtains

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