While strolling Burien WA’s Art Walk last week, I saw this mixed blossom bouquet in such an unusual color scheme, sitting in front of a business.

An array of red and yellow flowers including roses, tulips and alstroemeria or Peruvian lily

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The columbines look very good this year. They respond very well to an acid fertilizer in the spring, and the flowers are big and plentiful. Here is one pretty one in a shaft of sunlight, with some rose campion in the foreground.

Yellow and red columbine (aquilegia) in the shade

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A week or two ago, driving around Burien, WA, I saw this house. Color to the max.

Sky blue house with red and pinky-purple rhododendrons

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Strolling down the streets of Burien, WA on its monthly Art Walk, such a lovely evening! That’s me, with the hat.

Bright red guitar, seen from the back, on break.

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My roses have begun. This year I used a better kind of fertilizer, with micro-nutrients, and am VERY happy with the results. Worth the money.

Deep red rose in my garden

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More peonies.

Delicate pink and white peonies, with a dash of red, in my garden

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A fancy kind of abutilon (‘Tiger’s Eye’), with dark purple bud casings. Seen (of course!) at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory.

Red, yellow and orange veins, and a dark, velvety bud casing in this small tropical flower.

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On Capitol Hill in Seattle today, a LARGE bunch of balloons.

Man carrying bunch of many red balloons

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Had a great time vending at the Plant Sale at the Lake Wilderness Arboretum in Maple Valley, WA last weekend. This view of red Japanese maples in the afternoon light looked almost like fall colors.

Backlit Japanese maples in the Lake Wilderness Arboretum in early May

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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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