2020 Vision Amidst The Virus

Leaning into summer. The first basil of the season from my new herb garden. Delish!!I (I can’t take credit for the 🍅!!)

A must for those who like blue in the garden. This Clematis integrifolia Durandii blooms from June to September and only gets about 5 feet tall. It is perfect for winding through other shrubs. Prune back to within 12 inches every February. A very well behaved beauty.

Wade Garretson 🌿 Blooms by the tray.

Jeannie Gravenkemper 🌿 Here we come!

Jeannie Gravenkemper 🌿 (Gallery) Mom is missing from first photo and then returns in second photo, and all is well.

Jill Crutcher 🌿 Simple close-up of one of my tulips.

Jill Crutcher 🌿 Simple morning view while doing ranch chores!  

Fay Page 🌿 Make way for Mamma and her desert ducklings.  Mamma and ducklings get separated as they are trying to exit our pool and so Mamma gets back in, and orchestrates a successful regrouping and pool departure. The adventure seems to tire out the smaller straggling family members.

Susan Potts 🌿 (Gallery) I collected all of these flowers from our property in the San Juan islands.

Fay Page 🌿 Desert sunset from my car.

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 A tulip from my garden.

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 A tulip from my garden

Caroline Goedhart 🌿 Best year ever for our iris.

Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Unknown variety of tree peony

Caroline Goedhart 🌿 Tropical theme.

Susan Ashmun 🌿 This is one of my favorite plant combinations in my woodland, shade garden. The texture created by the combination of clover shaped leaves with spikes of fern echoing the white of the oxalis flower draws me down the path. Oxalis crassipes ‘Alba’ and Athyrium niponicum ‘pictum’ Length of ownership: 4 years

Caroline Goedhart 🌿 One of the first roses of the year.

Barbara Feasey 🌿 I wanted to represent the juxtaposition of my “habitat” during the pandemic. The peonies are from my Seattle garden and the bright green lichen and broken branches were found on a forest hike in the Methow.

Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Sunset through tall Italian Cypress taken in Tuscany

Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Sun peeking through to rhododendron blossoms

Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Adenine obesum or Desert Rose

Debby Smith  🌿 I had 20 pots of special daffodils and tulips . Here are some.

Debby Smith  🌿 Three unusual daffodils in a simple way.

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 A garden feels the sadness of our nation’s anguish.

Shelley Laramore 🌿 My neighbor took me on a tour of his newly designed garden

Joan Harkins 🌿 We are in the process of restoring our garden. This peony got transplanted mid-bloom and is making a heroic effort to keep on going!

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 Peony from my garden.

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 A focus stacked photo of a peony from my garden.

Laurie Ahern 🌿 My photograph is of a Western Peony, Paeonia brownii Douglas ex Hook. It was taken from an existing large plant on the sagebrush slope of our property in Ketchum, Idaho. This plant has been found to be impossible to propagate.

Carol Eland 🌿 On the way to hokiteka , New Zealand.

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 Peonies from my garden

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Graceful Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’

Debby Smith  🌿 A day at the dump! Very organized and “ clean”! This just says it all.

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Beautiful purple glower clusters , interesting pods , poisonous seeds

Kim Bishop 🌿  (Gallery) For recent birthday, younger son chose all these succulents, potted and delivered to me at a social distance. ❤️ According to “Picture This” app, I identified as the following: Euphorbia tirucalli ‘Pencil cactus’,

Juliet Romano 🌿 Shot with my phone on Blackout Tuesday in Idaho, with all the lights out except the spotlight on the blossom covered tree. I used the ‘Noir’ filter and made other adjustments in Photos.

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Manipulated

Victoria  Reed 🌿 Salix reticulata

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Pop art style

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Still life after death

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Desert Garden at night

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Desert agarden

Catherine Parker 🌿 This video is of a mother duck and her ducklings I happened upon at the Union Bay Wetlands area where I have spent much time wandering alone during the COVID-19 pandemic .

Kathleen Lea 🌿 The sun was just coming up over the mountains.

Diana Neely 🌿 The blooms are very long and fragrant.

Kathleen Lea 🌿 Still life fun from what was available

Diana Neely 🌿 I have had these rose standards for at least 20 years. They were floriferous this year!

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This Helleborus ‘Frostkiss’ has a lovely bloom in early spring, but I equally value its beautiful foliage that stays looking good for a very long time.

Susan Ashmun 🌿 I created this arrangement to celebrate Mothers Day. I feel like so many Moms did not get to be with their children this year due to Covid-19. Flowers make me happy and celebrate life! Why not celebrate both.

Diana Neely 🌿 I have three of these Camelia reticulatas. The flowers are 4-5 inches across. I have gotten camellia seeds from them but so far have been unsuccessful at propagating them.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Sheila’s Perfume’ is a sturdy, dependable producer and its fragrance helps it live up to its name.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This ‘Heronswood Form’ of a Paris polyphylla is a Dan Hinkley specialty. It is one of my favorites as it is very unusual and this picture is of its first few days of putting in an appearance in my yard, just this week. Likes mostly shade.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 My potted collection of carnivorous plants is dominated by Sarracenia flava – still alive from our SGC flower show several years ago.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Just Joey’ hybrid tea is a favorite although not considered the best form for a hybrid tea because it’s petals are more loose and relaxed. If grown mostly in the sun, the color will be paler – in partial shade, more intense, but might not be as floriferous. Mine is […]

Hope Stroble 🌿 Hiking in Bighorn Canyon on April 3rd, 2020. Wild Ocotillo (Fouquieris spiendens) in full bloom.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Sally Holmes’ is a prolific bloomer. Often has so many blooms on one stem that it can fill a vase. A good one for the back of the garden as it can be quite tall.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 The first Rosa ‘Marilyn Monroe’ hybrid tea in one of my favorite bud vases.

Jolie Roze 🌿 This image of the Seattle skyline was taken just after sunset from the banks of Gasworks Park. With luck, a 4-woman boat glided past just at the right moment! The photograph was taken with my iPhone 11-Pro and edited in Snapseed.

Jolie Roze 🌿 This image was taken on the Mesquite Flat Dunes of Death Valley in February while on a photography workshop with Justin Reznick. I used a Fuji XT-3 with a 55-200 mm lens (at 11.3 mm).

Charlee Reed 🌿 My favorite Peony grown in my garden

Jolie Roze 🌿 I photographed this lone figure at the Itsukushima Shrine in Miyajima during my trip to Japan last November. Looking back, her masked profile seems now like a prophetic sign of what the world was about to face.

Jolie Roze 🌿 This little duck was splashing about in the heart of Bellevue at the city’s Downtown Park. The image was taken using my Fuji XT-3 with a 55-200 mm lens (at 200 mm).

Jolie Roze 🌿 This wakeboarder was enjoying a hot May afternoon on Lake Washington . The image was taken from my deck with my Fuji XT-3 and a 55-200 mm lens (at 77.9mm). Mt Rainier was out in all its glory that day!

Jolie Roze 🌿 This photograph was taken on a late afternoon trek through Pioneer Park on Mercer Island. The warm light illuminating this maple branch (in the midst of a dark forest) brought rays of hope to my mind. The image was taken with a Fuji XT-3 and a 55-200 mm lens (at 74.1 mm).

Susan Brickman 🌿 Raindrops on Solomon’s Seal.

Jolie Roze 🌿 Our garden has been blessed with a profusion of peonies this spring. Such a joy to behold! This image was taken using my Fuji XT-3 with a 55-200 mm lens (at 148 mm).

Jolie Roze 🌿 This beautiful eaglet was perched in a tree in the Skagit Valley on Feb 22nd. I was there to photograph the snow geese migration, but this little fellow was far more intriguing. The image was taken using my Fuji XT-3 with a 100-400 mm lens (at 400 mm).

Susan Brickman 🌿 Rose

Phoebe Andrew 🌿 It was in the existing garden. We saved it in a pot and then put it back in the garden. (Photo in separate email)

Sue Blethen 🌿 I solved the ants in my peony arrangement by placing them in water then, placing both vases in a 3rd container with water. I learned ants can’t swim!

Jeannie Gravenkemper 🌿 (Gallery) During coronavirus I have taken many bird photos. This triptych shows the heron jumping over turtles basking in the sun on a log. The photos were taken on my iPhone in the arboretum.

Sue Blethen 🌿 Dan’s plants were purchased at SGC Windcliff tour from our auction!

Debbi Wilson 🌿 A Single Frangipani (Plumeria) flower is a simple multi colored five petalled beauty that merits center stage in the cup. Taken with iPhone indoors.

Debbi Wilson 🌿 Great White Egrets gathered early before dispersing for the day; a stunning sight. Taken with my iPhone on a cloudy morning.

Debbi Wilson 🌿 Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis. China Rose, Hibiscus. Some of the hardiest of the varieties that can endure the wind, heat, sun and produces vibrant, diurnal blooms. One of my favorite shrubs for this climate.

Sue Blethen 🌿 Primula malacoides: Candelabra Primrose profusion!

Debbi Wilson 🌿 Plumeria ’Apricot’, Frangipani. Owned and grown for a year from a well rooted cutting. Grows in our garden near the seawall. Fragrant.

Debbi Wilson 🌿 Strelitzia reginae, Craneflower also known as Bird of Paradise. It has been in the garden at least 40 years. A joy to see its vivid colors.

Sue Blethen 🌿 My back patio now nurtures peas, lettuces, kale, chard, spinach, green onions, tomatoes & raspberries as I am here tending & enjoying them daily!

Laurie Riley 🌿 The Bellevue Botanical Garden is the perfect place to explore with grandchildren!

Laurie Riley 🌿 The Foxgloves of Spring. A true sign that summer is on its way.

Laurie Riley 🌿 One of many magnificent sunsets we’ve seen at our Methow cabin this spring.

Laurie Riley 🌿 We have been blessed with lots of blooms in our garden this spring. Each time we return home from our “pandemic hideout” we find something new and exciting in bloom. I’ve started cutting flowers and making bouquets every morning…giving them to my neighbors as an expression of love and good cheer.

Barbara Hamachek 🌿 Lilium ‘Lily’ Chrysanthemum ‘Mum’ Antirrhinum ‘Snap Dragon’ Eucalyptus ‘Eucalyptus’ ‘Billy Ball’ craspedia Craspedia Rosa ‘Rose’ Delphinium ‘Delphinium’

Catherine Mueller 🌿 Simple cut peonies in a vase. So light, ethereal, simple.

Barbara Hamachek 🌿 Imagine discovering an artichoke at the local florist during COVID isolation! Artichoke cardunculus, Dog’s Eye Euphorbia, euphorbia Euphorbia, Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii).

Catherine Mueller 🌿 Sweet blue hosta in the backyard. Beautiful dusty blue color. Perfect sharp edges. This hosta never fails!

Catherine Mueller 🌿 Every year I wait in anticipation of this Itoh Peony to bloom. The sunshine yellow makes me and my neighbors smile! This bloom was tale end of the blooms. It is much smaller in comparison to its earlier blooms.

Barbara Hamachek 🌿 Spring wanderings offer bits and pieces of line and mass. Douglas Fir, (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Sage artemisia ludoviciana, Euphorbia euphorbia.

Catherine Mueller 🌿 This Bougainvillea was almost sent to the compost bin this spring! Covid 19 spared its demise as we left town and this to languish in the sunroom. What a gorgeous surprise to come home to.

Catherine Mueller 🌿 This Sago Palm has endured 11 years in our sunroom, a year of total neglect during our home remodel and now is sending up new growth! A refresh is in the making!

Edie Tenneson 🌿 Magnolia moment on neighborhood street

Shelley Rolfe 🌿 I adore David Austen roses, yet many are short stemmed and happy floating here in the owl bowl.

Edie Tenneson 🌿 Salal, Gaultheria shallon

Shelley Rolfe 🌿 In healthy shrub steppe habitat, Lewisia redeviva or Bitterroot first emerges as succulent-like leaves in late March; then after the leaves wither, these beautiful pink flowers emerge. This photo was taken near a Ponderosa Pine forest.

Edie Tenneson 🌿 The water line on the textured sand

Edie Tenneson 🌿 Weathered boat grounded, gradually succumbing to the elements, sheltering in place

Shelley Rolfe 🌿 I’m working on techniques that highlight the flow of water through a landscape.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Autumn Fern, Dryopteris erythosora ‘Brilliance’ – lives up to its name. Rarely blemished and brightens a shady spot; new spring growth emerges in coppery red colors before maturing to green.

Laurie Riley 🌿 A beautiful display of unmowed parking strip in my neighborhood. Wouldn’t it be great if the city mowers left it like this as a gesture of good cheer?

Laurie Riley 🌿 This strawberry plant grows and blooms each year in the trunk of the old cherry tree across the street…..probably “planted” there by a crow who stole it from my berry patch!

Catherine Allan 🌿 No rush hour morning in April ‘20

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Three photos of Penstemon digitalis ‘Pocahontas’ – a close up of the blooms, one showing the maroon foliage and the other with a hummingbird. Absolutely the hummingbird’s favorite plant in my garden.

Victoria Reed 🌿 Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans’

Nancy Bain 🌿 (Gallery) I received this Ponytail Palm as a gift when the caudex was the size of a marble, over 40 years ago. I have always wanted to show it, but because of its size and weight that hasn’t been possible. As you can see see, it takes four grown men to just […]

Roberta Campbell 🌿 Spring is always spectacular at Seattle Golf Club. These were taken in the past two weeks. Literally . . . the course is in full bloom. Featured behind the 11th green!

Roberta Campbell 🌿 A Rhodie spectacular!

Catherine Allan 🌿 Grey heron in flight

Catherine Allan 🌿 Cornus kousa at its peak.

Jill Crutcher 🌿 Simple Garden Flowers

Peggy-Paige Most 🌿 Not mine, but belongs to a neighbor. Thank you to them for beautifying the neighborhood.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This specialty plant is a Blue Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum ‘Rocky Point’ and is only 3 – 4 inches high. It is super cute in the rockery.

Susan Ashmun 🌿 I ran across this enormous ivy growing up a tree when we were doing some clearing. (Unbelievably, the Olmsteds planted 1100 Hedera ivy here in 1917) It was calling out to be used in a new way with its beautiful fuzzy climbing roots still attached. I gathered other woodland plants to make […]

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Mukdenia rossi ‘Crimson Fans’ has maple like leaves and becomes more colorful as summer turns to fall.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Hardy Impatiens, Impatiens omeiana, adds flare to darker areas of the garden.

Delphine Stevens 🌿 RHS Award of Merit, Rosa ‘Litchfield Angel’ first blooming in my garden in spring.

Delphine Stevens 🌿 The fresh green of Euphorbia characias subsp. Wulfenii contrasted with Rhododendrons blooms enlivens a spring morning in my garden

Delphine Stevens 🌿 Looking north west from under an ancient Beauty Bush In my garden that has grow into a tree form

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Fame!’ Grandiflora is an outstanding rose. It holds its shape on the bush or as a cut, even after its color has faded. Sadly, no scent. Did you know that typically, the stronger the scent, the less a rose holds as a cut or on the bush?

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Signature’ produces perfectly formed hybrid tea roses.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Video entry by Suzette de Turenne, use player below to view. This video shows a sampling of birds that have visited us in our yard in the past few weeks. All are photos/videos in our yard as I learn to use a new lens and video software. Still photos are not […]

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Marilyn Monroe’ hybrid tea is one of my favorites.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ adds wonderful foliage to the garden; perennial

Susan Potts 🌿

Joan Harkins 🌿 This Calla Lily is just outside my kitchen door. I anxiously await its blooms every year. I love the pure whiteness of it, its satin-y texture and its shape like a snail shell.

Susan Potts 🌿 This is one of my favorite roses that blooms at my front entry in Seattle.

Susan Potts 🌿 These daisies grow each year on our property in the San Juan’s. Our 3 year old granddaughter was just the right size to be photographed with them. She didn’t know they would be in bloom and was excited to wander through them. She picked a big bouquet for the cabin.

Gayle Harris 🌿 The flowers from this bouquet came from my garden on Hammersley Inlet, and I put them together in about five minutes, not thinking of the “correct way” for viewing other than for my friend Sue Nevler. I thought I would submit regardless because flowers are so beautiful! Upon receiving them, my friend […]

Charlee Reed 🌿 Calming Waves

Jolie Roze 🌿 Photo taken with my iPhone from a grassy knoll overlooking the park and city beyond.

Jo Anne Rosen🌿 Shocking images along the Montlake Cut during the pandemic!!!

Helen Blair 🌿 My grandmother’s garden in Pebble Beach, California had big and beautiful Aeonium potted outside year round, an impossibility in Seattle. After years of zonal denial failure, this beauty spent the winter in a friend’s rustic greenhouse and emerged happy. It’s 2’ high already and has many spawn, pieces the dog knocks off […]

Jo Anne Rosen🌿 Walk in the Arboretum

Jo Anne Rosen🌿 Peonies from the Hmong Gardens

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Fuchsia ‘Golden Herald’ – wonderful combo of chartreuse leaves with bold blossom color

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Heuchera ‘Marmalade’ – perennial foliage

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Heuchera ‘Cocomint’ – great foliage!

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’ – grown for its fabulous foliage.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa Multiflora ‘Sunglow’ – truly glows in the garden.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Iris ‘Caesar’s Brother’ – an outstanding blue

Ana Hergert 🌿 A majestic ‘Gladiator’ Allium on Samish Island.

Catherine Allan 🌿 Rhododendron macrosepalum ‘Linearifolium’, Spider Azalea It’s in a container with other rhododendron species planted for a Hort entry in ‘Nature’s Poetry’ 2019

Marianne Kitchell 🌿 Japanese maple and shadows through skylight taken with an IPhone6.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Paradise’ is a beautiful mauve with pink edging that holds well in bad weather.

Carol Eland 🌿 Roses at the beach house they always bloom in my moms birthday. June 1

Catherine Allan 🌿 Birthday bouquet for B.J.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 I took this photo in my dining room with my iPhone and then cropped it a bit. No other editing.

Susan Brickman 🌿 Poeny

Catherine Allan 🌿 Rhododendron ‘Soir de Paris’ A fragrant deciduous azalea planted in memory of my father

Ann McCutchan  🌿 Beautiful tulips with multiple blossoms on one stem. No name, unfortunately.

Phoebe Andrew 🌿 The leaf is a Podophyllum scouleri (Chinese Mayapple) The second photograph is the blossoms or “fruit”

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Day Breaker’ is one of my favorite Floribunda roses. A great performer!

Anne Dor 🌿 Remembering a Sue Ashmun’s arrangement when she used an unusual milk pod variant, I went looking at my local Metropolitan Market for a flower I thought dramatic (and to me at the time something unknown). The Spider Mum fit the bill!

Exhibitor: Fay Page 🌿 Poppies from Beachwood, Bainbridge Island in Fay’s garden

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 An example of scanography whereby the photo is created with a scanner.

Mary Turner 🌿 A video of a bumble bee visiting a California Poppy.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Comte de Chambord’ Old Garden Rose – strong fragrance

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Captured this little guy singing his heart out. Used a telephoto lens on my Nikon camera & used Photoshop to remove one branch that interrupted and distracted from overall effect.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Hosta ‘Fortunei Aureomarginata’ is very easy to grow and does not seem as palatable to slugs/snails as some of the more fragile leafed Hostas.

Pam Green 🌿 Itoh Peony, ‘Bartzella’ 9 inches across

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Use a telephoto lens to discover unexpected visitors on flowers in environmentally sensitive areas in order to respect signage requests to avoid disturbing the areas along the walking paths.

Sis Woodside 🌿 Photo taken with I phone on Rendezvous Road in Winthrop, Wash.

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This video reminds us the importance of choosing plantings that encourage our pollinators. Here is a tree, Styrax joponicus with white blossoms; a blue perennial, Salvia; and a purple bulb, Allium ‘Globemaster’. Be a friend to bees!

Charlee Reed 🌿 Peaceful Discovery

Charlee Reed 🌿 Skunk Cabbage

Marianne Kitchell 🌿 Close-up of my Paeonia ITOH ‘Singing in the Rain’

Charlee Reed 🌿 Arboretum Duck

Judy Rupert 🌿 Complimentary colors of yellow and red tulips (tulipae) from the garden show their beauty in a simple arrangement.

Candace Lancaster 🌿 A meditative moment at Chapel of St. Ignatius pool

Candace Lancaster 🌿 missing Maine

Beverly Martin 🌿 A pot on my terrace that includes more than one large plant, but the star is the Podophyllum plenianthum, shown from the top and from the side where you can see the flowers that become seed pods hiding under the large 19″ leaves.

Beverly Martin 🌿 A small bouquet: Royal Sunset climbing Rose and Geum ‘Mango Lassi’

Mary Turner 🌿 A video called “Dancing With The Light”. The music is Bach’s Cello Concerto No 1 in G major played by Yo Yo Ma.

Catherine Allan 🌿 Magnolia x ‘Aaschield Kalleberg’ A fragrant magnolia that I bought hoping to plant in Fragrance Garden. It was rejected, so I kept it!

Dabney Rohrbach 🌿 A spectacular view from my balcony! Styrax japonica, Japanese Snowbell Tree.

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 I took this from the bank of our property in Icicle Canyon. When we arrived in mid March, the creek was low and barely flowing. By mid May, it is rushing wildly.

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 In early May, we took a hike in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Icicle Canyon, where we have a second home. You’ll see my daughter-in-law, Katherine, and grand daughter, Maggie, who have been isolating with us in the canyon. Grouses were hooting from the bushes, and Maggie can now do a perfect rendition […]

Beverly Martin 🌿 1. Good Seattle citizens distancing as they enjoy a perfect afternoon at Gasworks Park 2. Lake Union is rarely calm enough to show reflections, but this mirror effect of the Space Needle and two cranes showed up one morning. Taken from our bedroom window.

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This striking native plant, Lilium columbium (Columbia tiger lily) grows alongside our entry road. Every year I shake the dried heads to spread the seeds.

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the first in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession […]

Charlee Reed 🌿 Reflection in the Garden

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 I have planted this patio pot with Persian Shield (Strobilanthjes dyerianus; California Lilac (Ceonothus griseus var. horizontalis); Rock Cress (Aubrietz x cultorum ‘Rokey’s Purple’; Salvia ‘Black & Blue’; Abutilon ‘Lucky Lantern Tangerine’; Salvia greggi ‘Smokin Lavender’; Potato Vines ‘Blackie’ and ‘Sweet Caroline’; Bacopa ‘Blue Sky’ and ‘White’; and Geranium ‘Sunrise Violet’

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the final in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession […]

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the third in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession […]

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the second in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession […]

Jenny Wyatt 🌿 I love this delicate little wildflower, Calochortus lyalii (Lyall’s mariposa), which grows profusely on our property in Icicle Canyon in late May. One common name I’ve heard is cat’s ear lily–can you see why?

Beverly Martin 🌿  (Gallery) These three pictures were taken on walks this spring during the height of the Coronavirus. They struck me because their abundance is so counter to what else was happening to us at that time. 1. Dazzling cherries 2. Magnolias large and magnificent 3. Life goes on!

Gayle Harris 🌿 This Autumn Joy Stonecrop Sedum was started from a soft wood cutting last fall.

Sis Woodside 🌿 This video shows a 2 acre field of wild Lupine that is in full bloom and occurs every year around May 12th on Rendezvous Road in Winthrop, Wash.

Catherine Allan 🌿 Spring ephemerals in white

Jo Anne Rosen🌿 One of many beautiful images on my walk down Azalea Way!

Charlee Reed 🌿 Yellow on a cold winter’s day

Charlee Reed 🌿 Very unusual sight on Lake Washington

Juliet Romano 🌿 Taken in downtown Seattle at 10:00am on April 4th, 2020 with iPhone X, at the corner of Western and Columbia St.

Mary Turner 🌿 A video of water with Bach’s Cello Suite No 1 in G major played by Yo Yo Ma

Shelley Rolfe 🌿 Here’s Sis Woodside describing how she and her family enhanced their wildflower meadow by tilling in wildflower seeds and enhancing some of the area with einkorn husks. The results are spectacular as show here in the peak season.

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. Maya Angelo

Suzy Titcomb 🌿 The cinnamon teal did not get the memo about quarantining. Note how the female duck is taking charge of her male suitors (the cinnamon brown ones) who are trying to woe her with their bobbing heads.

Susan Moseley 🌿 Orange Poppy from Vicki Reed’s Garden

Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Peony