I was at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory last week. These pretty tropical flowers, which I can’t begin to describe, are maybe an inch tall (2.5 cm). Anyone know the name?

Small red and yellow tropical flowers at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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At my favorite flower haunt, Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, the Cactus House display is full of flowers. These tiny ones make me happy.

Teensy pink cactus flowers nestle among the spikes

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Some people say cle-MA-tis, and some people say CLEM-uh-tis. They are all beautiful. My gardener friend Sherry (see hostas below) has a simple pink clematis draping over her fence that is pretty darn wonderful.

Pink clematis with yellow centers along a fence

Macro view of clematis vine with pink flowers and yellow centers

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This is in my backyard.

Pink dogwood tree in full bloom, with red rhododendrons in the foreground

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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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These delicate fuschia flowers are from Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, and one of the ten images in my new line of Notecards. All the images on the notecards are from my book, “Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory.”

‘Mrs. Lovell Swisher’ fuschia flowers

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Here’s another notecard image. I love this one so much I used it on the cover of my book, “Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory.”

Angel’s Trumpet, or Brugmansia. The buds are yellow, the flowers pink. This is the Ecuador Pink variety.

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Yesterday the apple trees began to bloom. I hope there are still apple flowers blooming when the rain stops next week.

Pink and white apple blossoms

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Hope you are not tired of tulips. See the snow in the distance in this one? Here are many rows of colorful tulips in the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, a perfect illustration of the laws of perspective.

Rows of tulips converge at a point on the horizon

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Not my usual style of photography. It came out of the camera that way. Wonder what I did. Do you like it?

Two red tulips bloom in the garden

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