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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From a trip to Flamingo Gardens in Florida earlier this year.

Deep orange flamingos feed while standing in water, at Flamingo Gardens in Florida

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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’s garden is loaded with grapes. These green ones are not quite ripe, but still so pretty.

Bunches of green grapes hanging on the vine, soaking up the sun

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Friends have a very beautiful garden.

Perennial border in late summer in Seattle, WA

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A (dracena??) plant at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory.

Spiky green leaves and sunlight make a pattern at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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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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At Kubota Garden the other day, the prettiest rose hips (former roses) I’ve ever seen.

Shiny red rose hips on a wild rose in Kubota Garden in South Seattle

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Very beautiful pond at the Kubota Garden in South Seattle, all to ourselves on a rainy Monday…

Large orange koi in pond at Kubota Garden in Seattle

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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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