These are some of the showiest flowers anywhere! This one is blooming now at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle.

Spiky red, pink and purple bromeliad flower

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Roses against a sunny summer sky.

Double Delight roses blooming in July in my garden

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From the archives, a July garden tour of a fabulous hydrangea collection in Federal Way, WA.

Hydrangea blossoms with purple petals and light yellow centers

Unusual hydrangea with dark magenta petals with white border

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So delicate, so pretty. Summer flowers are so delightful on a cold and dark day like today.

A mass of small pale begonia flowers with delicate red edges

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I don’t know what kind of lilies these are, but they pair so well with red dahlias in this October bouquet.

Hot colors in fall bouquet wrapped in white paper at Pike Place Market in Seattle

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From an October visit to Flower Row in Pike’s Place Market in Seattle:

Petals looking like flames in red, orange and yellow dahlia bouquets

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From a visit at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, an incomparable white bouquet.

Ornamental cabbage, dahlias and other white garden flowers in sophisticated monocolor creative bouquet

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It’s raining now, but thought you’d like to see the hydrangeas looking good in the sunlight not too long ago.

Soft tones of blue, purple and turquoise in the early fall hydrangea petals

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They predicted a big rainstorm so I went and picked most of the open roses that looked good. It’s raining hard now!

Many colors of roses in an early fall bouquet

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I need some pretty flowers to look at. Lots of misery in the world lately.

Lavender flowers blooming in my Seattle garden in July, ready to pick for drying

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