The roses are getting started very nicely.

Blood red petals with a snow white outside of the petal make Snowfire rose a real standout

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A recent trip to PowellsWood garden in Federal Way, WA was a total delight.

Carefully tended, and so scenic! Springtime heaven.

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I wish I could transport the fragrance to you.

Pink and white and fluffy, with accents of carmine, in my garden

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I’d heard about these black petunias and finally saw them in person. Truly black, surprisingly pretty, almost iridescent. I believe they call the variety Black Mamba.

Black Mamba petunias on my friend Cindy’s deck

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My first visit to Bellevue Botanical Garden this week.

Purple Dutch irises at the perennial path

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An extremely charming garden, PowellsWood garden in Federal Way, WA. Definitely worth a visit.

Orange-red geum flowers at a curving brick path in PowellsWood garden.

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A darling flower bowl on my friend’s entryway hutch.

Fancy red-and-pink verbenas, and peach-and-pale-yellow petunias

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Had a truly lovely visit to PowellsWood garden in Federal Way, WA the other day. Magnificent! Only three acres, but so lovingly created and tended. Kudos to them.

Darling pink hydrangeas, perhaps a tree?

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I do love lilacs. They look good even in this wettest year ever in Seattle.

Double lilacs macro in a very, very wet Seattle spring.

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A couple of days ago, the two columnar apple trees near my patio looked like this, not quite blooming. Wonder what two warm and sunny days will do?

Bluebells and forget-me-nots, a pruned grapevine, and two columnar apple trees almost in bloom. Scallions (green onions) blooming at lower left, and a multi-graft plum tree in the distance.

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