Oh the joy, two new rosebushes for an anniversary gift. This beauty is ‘Julia Child,’ named in homage to the queen of butter.

Butter yellow rose, as it should be, named after American icon Julia Child. And sweetly fragrant as well.

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The roses are getting started very nicely.

Blood red petals with a snow white outside of the petal make Snowfire rose a real standout

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A recent trip to PowellsWood garden in Federal Way, WA was a total delight.

Carefully tended, and so scenic! Springtime heaven.

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I’d heard about these black petunias and finally saw them in person. Truly black, surprisingly pretty, almost iridescent. I believe they call the variety Black Mamba.

Black Mamba petunias on my friend Cindy’s deck

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My first visit to Bellevue Botanical Garden this week.

Purple Dutch irises at the perennial path

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An extremely charming garden, PowellsWood garden in Federal Way, WA. Definitely worth a visit.

Orange-red geum flowers at a curving brick path in PowellsWood garden.

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A darling flower bowl on my friend’s entryway hutch.

Fancy red-and-pink verbenas, and peach-and-pale-yellow petunias

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Had a truly lovely visit to PowellsWood garden in Federal Way, WA the other day. Magnificent! Only three acres, but so lovingly created and tended. Kudos to them.

Darling pink hydrangeas, perhaps a tree?

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These fuchsias are like a dream of moonlight.

Palest pink fuchsias at the Volunteer Park Conservatory, in Seattle

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I do love lilacs. They look good even in this wettest year ever in Seattle.

Double lilacs macro in a very, very wet Seattle spring.

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Who doesn’t like pansies?

Dark purple pansies, with yellow and black centers

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A couple of days ago, the two columnar apple trees near my patio looked like this, not quite blooming. Wonder what two warm and sunny days will do?

Bluebells and forget-me-nots, a pruned grapevine, and two columnar apple trees almost in bloom. Scallions (green onions) blooming at lower left, and a multi-graft plum tree in the distance.

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