The bleeding heart (decentra) begins to bloom in my garden.

Pink and white bleeding heart flowers start to bloom

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Huge, breathtaking glass floral forms overhead in the atrium at the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum in Seattle. Don’t they look like sea creatures? #chihuly

Undulating floral forms overhead in the atrium at the Chihuly glass garden in Seattle

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At Flamingo Gardens near Ft. Lauderdale in Florida, there were lots of…flamingos! Does anyone know the name of the white birds? Later: American White Ibis. Thanks, Kitty!

Colorful flamingos and ibises drinking at a water hole

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Yet another ravishing flower from the recent Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Do enter NWFGS in the search field at right for more lovelies.

Red and yellow spotted orchids. Even the bud has spots!

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Hard to know what to call this image, but I love it! Taken from the car while my friend was driving, stopped at one of the LONG traffic lights, this symphony in primary colors really makes me happy.

Red and yellow umbrellas, green building and bright blue skies in Southern Florida

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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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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is something you don’t see every day. This little trailer and its interior was on display at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and was shown by Sisters on the Fly, back in the vintage area. You could die from this much cute.

Darling interior of small trailer, in vintage red and white

Here’s the outside, too. People were lining up.

Sisters on the Fly trailer was a huge hit at the NWFGS

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A break from the Florida pictures to bring you something from today’s visit to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Isn’t this something?

A rainbow of flowers arranged in a golden frame

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I need sun! April and tulips, I can’t wait!

Many colors of tulips in a display bed, in bright sun

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The other day in Mukilteo, WA, near the ferry dock, a very scenic group of seagulls. Isn’t it cute the way the ones on the ground are watching her, all ready?

Woman in a red jacket feeds seagulls by the water

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