Growing in my friend Sherry’s fine garden, an exciting plant:

Yellow tradescantia with its purple flowers. What a combo!

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My friend has hydrangeas already in full bloom in her shady garden.

Different colors of hydrangeas blooming in the shade

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Chive plants are great. Months of tasty herbs for the kitchen, and pretty flowers, too!

Mauve -pink flowers of the chive plant, with a baby plum tree in the distance, in my backyard

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Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far, over 70 degrees F and sunny. And it was my birthday! I celebrated by going outside and smelling the lilacs all blooming.

Close up of lilac panicle with double flowers

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I got a new camera, another little Canon, the PowerShot 120. I don’t know all the features yet, but took it out in my yard. I like it!

Sun beams on a flowering apple tree, a cherry (left) and plum tree. Bluebells and an iris bud are in the foreground.

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These sweet little flowers come up every spring in my garden. Smaller than regular tulips (which they aren’t really), they do have their own charm.

Checkered tulip (fritillaria) naturalizes if happy in the garden.

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Here’s a very springlike display from last year at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, on the first day of spring. #vpc #springflowers

Pretty spring flowers, indoors and out, at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory

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From the #NWFGS archives, a sweet bouquet.

Lavender and white roses in a bouquet at Seattle’s NW Flower & Garden Show

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Here is another post about something you just don’t see every day. This giant sedum heart, at least ten or fifteen feet tall (I heard it weighed several tons!), was a big hit in the lobby area of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. To see several more floral images that I recently posted from last year’s show, just put NWFGS in the search box at right.

Gigantic heart with thousands of sedum plants looking like flowers, at the NWFGS last week

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The Northwest Flower & Garden Show has ended but the photos of flowers live on. Here are two beauties: a bookcase full of bouquets and a ravishing and exotic protea bloom below. Be sure to scroll down a few photos for several more I posted last week from last year’s show, or just put NWFGS in the search box at right.

Several bouquets in pale tones and shades of turquoise decorate a bookcase at the NWFGS

Thrilling and otherworldly protea blossom in a bouquet at the NWFGS

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