From my June 2013 garden…

Dark red Asiatic lily blooming in June in my Seattle garden

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A couple of years ago everything came together in my back yard. Here’s to June and flowers!

A rainbow of flowers bloom in the June garden in the Pacific Northwest

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Feeling nostalgic for SUMMER at the Conservatory in Seattle. This was taken at its Centennial Celebration in August, 2012.

Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory in summertime

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Here’s a breath of warmth and summer for us Northern Hemisphere folks—pink peonies in my backyard from six months ago.

Tender pink peonies bloom in the early summer garden

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Hydrangeas are so beautiful, all summer long and maybe even more so in the fall as their colors change and intensify.

Purple hydrangeas in the fall garden

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The cosmos reseed most years and the dahlias come back, too. Lucky me!

Pink cosmos and dahlias, and super dark dahlias, in a bouquet

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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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Dahlias are the queen of late summer flowers.

Magenta, yellow, orange and red dahlia in sunshine

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A warm evening tonight in Seattle, at the Great Wheel by the waterfront.

Early evening at the Great Wheel in Seattle, reflected in Puget Sound

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Our friends with the beautiful garden (see a different view of the same scene in the post below) have a pool, shiny like glass in the warm, still air the other evening.

Sunset over Puget Sound and a reflecting pool

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