I have a friend who is an amazing gardener and this is what her shaded back deck looks like this week.

Many different hosta plants in containers on a Seattle deck

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Here’s another new notecard, a display of purple hyacinths at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle. All ten notecard images are from my book, “Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory.”

Deep purple hyacinths bloom at the Volunteer Park Conservatory

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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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Went to see the renovated Seahurst Park in Burien, WA. This forest scene image doesn’t show the new beach they put in, but you don’t see ferns growing on trees everywhere.

Moss and ferns in a springtime woodland scene in the Pacific Northwest

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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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I got a new camera, another little Canon, the PowerShot 120. I don’t know all the features yet, but took it out in my yard. I like it!

Sun beams on a flowering apple tree, a cherry (left) and plum tree. Bluebells and an iris bud are in the foreground.

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These plants are called green onions on the West coast, and scallions on the East coast, where I grew up. They grow well in my Seattle garden, coming back and multiplying each year so nicely.

Scallion flowers begin to bloom in my garden

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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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