The big NWFGS Flower Show is next month. Spring will get here!

Tasteful plantings in a trio of white garden patio planters

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Happy New Year to all, a holiday shared round the world. Wishing you health, inner growth and contentment in 2019.

Buds are the optimism of the plant world. Paperwhites bloom on New Year’s Day, 2019

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There was some very cold weather in the mornings last week.

Late fall frostiness by the side of the road, sun low in the sky

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At last week’s last Lusio light art fundraiser at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, this person went all out with their glowy LED cape, perfect for the occasion.

Tones of purple among the darkened reaches of the Palm House at the Volunteer Park Conservatory

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This has been a very beautiful fall.

Colorful autumn foliage, with lilac leaves in front

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Maple tree + autumn + late afternoon sunshine = bliss.

Fall color in maple leaves, with a very Pacific Northwest evergreen tree behind it.

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“Fancy” is not a very technical description, but I’ve never seen chrysanthemum leaves with a white border like this. Pretty showy!

Colorful mums with some fancy foliage, at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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Last week there was some sunshine. It will come again!

Colorful leaves against some evergreens, with cirrus clouds in a blue sky

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Homegrown peaches may be fuzzy, but the ineffable sweet perfume of them…

I think this is a Frost peach tree. It doesn’t get leaf curl and is producing sweet peaches in Seattle

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Pretty contrast in textures of two ferns. The one on the left is a sprengeri and the one on the right is maybe a kind of bird’s nest fern?

Sprengeri fern on left, perhaps asplenium nidus (birds nest) fern on the right? At the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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Got to visit the Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Garden near the Ballard Locks in Seattle the other day. So lovely. Here are some large geese feeding on a lawn.

Geese feed in the shade in the late afternoon in the Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Garden

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The weather has been so very warm and sunny. I adore it but know the rhodies and dogwood won’t last long in this heat.

Pink dogwood at left, and red rhododendrons with pink weigela between them. Iris buds lower left.

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