This golden yellow is a more unusual color of bird of paradise, usually more orange. Talk about a showy flower! Taken at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, of course.

Warm yellow-orange and blue spikes on this tropical bird of paradise flower

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I just learned the name of these small, pretty flowers recently on the Floral Friday blog. I happen to be reading Sacajawea, about the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Pacific Northwest, so when I learned that these flowers were named for Meriweather Lewis I was charmed. These were at Seattle’s huge NW Flower & Garden Show last week.

Tiny lewisia flowers are good in a rock garden

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We have a great employee-owned supermarket chain in the area called Winco, and their prices on many items are phenomenal. I bought a hyacinth bulb in a little pot for all of $2.99 and the two blooms are perfuming my entire kitchen.

Two fragrant white hyacinth blossoms on my kitchen table at night

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