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**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 1d

Blue-leaf roses are colorful and a pretty addition to any garden. They're native to European mountains.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #MapleLeafNeighborhood

Rosa glauca, or blue-leaf rose, is native to the mountains in Europe, but grows well here in the PNW. I had to shoot this photo above my head to get a picture of two of its 5 petaled rosy pink flowers. The petals turn white at the heart, surrounding the golden anthers. The leaves surrounding the flowers are blue-green, the stems vary from blue to purple. In this shot, the rose bush is lit from above by a bright sun in a blue blue sky.

Although the rosehips turn red in fall, they start out purple as shown in this photo. Here several clusters display their purple fruit and star like sepals set against the blue-green leaves.

The red hairy-looking balls of rose cane galls are the result of tiny cynipid wasps laying eggs in the rose stem at a leaf bud join. The red balls are usually pretty noticeable, being about 2 inches in diameter. This one is striking in the middle of the blue-green leaves and purple rose hips.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 3d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Oregon sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum), one of the woolly sunflowers, grows in cheerful clumps amid the park restoration grasses
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #MapleLeafPark #SeattleParkRestorations #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks

The flowers of Oregon sunshine look like miniature pure gold sunflowers about 2 inches (5 cm) wid. The single row of ray flowers encircle the disk flowers. The leaves are either simple or pinnately compound and are often blue green and covered with woolly hairs as are the stems and sepals. In this photo the clump is in the middle of medium height mixed grasses in Maple Leaf Par.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 3d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Another native plant spotted in Seattle park restoration areas: the Pacific waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes) has cool cucumber-ish colors and likes the edges of woodsy spots.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #MapleLeafPark #SeattleParkRestorations #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks

These 5 petalled waterleaf flowers growing in the park restoration are a greenish white. The numerous lilac colored stamens with yellow anthers, the hairy stems and sepals, all make the flowering cluster look like a fuzzy ball on top of its upright green stem. The alternate compound leaves are fuzzy as well,.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 5d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

You had a busy day today
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer

A screen full of single roses, some just opened with deep pink petals, some a day old with white petals rimmed with pink, or some still in bright pink bud... They look like a cloud of flowers bursting out of the dappled shade, a true sign of summer

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 6d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Looking up again! The Pacific mock orange bush is blooming (Philadelphus lewisii). It is a butterfly magnet, but I haven't seen many butterflies yet this year. One can always hope.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #OurGarden #LookUp #BloomScrolling

A mock orange shrub is full of white flowers and buds. The flowers have 4 white petals and a ring of golden anthers surrounding the pistil. Th leaves are a tender green and oval. I am hoping that the butterflies will magically appear to revel in the flowers.

Apparently the mock orange on the west side of the Cascades are not very fragrant, and you have to stick your nose in the flower to set the orange flower scent. In other areas it is very fragrant and lives up to its name.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 6d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Looking up this afternoon: those fireweeds are over 6 ft tall! Chamaenerion angustifolium, also known as Epilobium angustifolium
#Photography #LookUp #NativePlant #NativePlantsOfThePNW #OurGarden #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer

Looking up at the top of a fireweed towering over my head, I can see its magenta flowers against the blue summer sky. The flowers have 4 petals, a white pistil that terminates in 4 curlicues, and numerous dark colored anthers. They are growing on a spike of flowers with many buds at the top, promising more blooms. The spike is at the top of a stem with opposite, long narrow dark green leaves. These can be made into a tea, if you have a lot of plants and don't mind stripping some. The scene in in my garden and there are many leafy trees in the background.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 6d *

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Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Jazzed up sundown peony
#Photography #Monochrome #BnW #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer

A spot of golden yellow in the heart of this black and white photo of a pink peony looks a bit like the sun sett glowing with billowing storm clouds around it. The black and white rendition of the peony many layers of ruffled petals gives an interesting play of light and shadow to the beautiful folds and edges. The flower is set against a very dark background for more contrast.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 9

Jun 9

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

The schnozz is ready for a boop
#photography #SeattleWashington ##DogsOfMastodon

Close up foreshortened portrait of a gray shih tzu looking sincerely at me

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 9

Jun 9

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Strawberries
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #OurGarden

Three red strawberries grown in a pottery planter glow under the leaves. There are plenty of green strawberries to replace these when they're picked. The strawberry vines have some old dead leaves in shades of gray and brown littering the planter soil.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 8 *

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Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Look up! Japanese snowbells gracing the sidewalk (Styrax japonicus). The weather is gorgeous. The transition from cool to hot is a bit brutal for this very paleface.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling

Looking up from the sidewalk i can see the pendant white flowers of a Japanese snowbell against a clear blue sky. The flowers hang down like five petaled bells, with golden yellow anthers looking like fancy clappers. The blooms are below the tree's oval leaves. They are all in dappled shade, with the sunlight backlighting some leaves, showing their veination. Some flowers have already lost their petals, leaving behind a small unripe fruit with a long white pistil.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 6

Jun 6

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Cluster rose or swamp rose (Rosa pisocarpa ) in Ravenna Park. I missed the Nootka rose bloom
##BloomScrolling #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #NativePlants #RavennaPark #SeattleOlmstedParks #SeattleSummer #PNWNativePlants

A couple of five petaled pink roses bloom among the green compound leaves of the cluster rose. The shrubs flourish in the dappled shade along the trail. These are sometimes hard to distinguish from the Nootka rose, but the clusters of buds and flowers are typical, whereas the Nootka has mostly solitary flowers. The stems of cluster roses tend to arch more, the Nootka grows fairly straight for several feet before arching.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 6

Jun 6

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Cat and dog seriously zonked out after the dog had his bath.
#CatsOfMastodon #PocketPanthers #DogsOfMastodon #SeattleWashington

No, the cat did not have a bath. He wanted some cuddling.

A view from the tail ends of a black cat and a gray shih tzu laying side by side asleep on towels and throws. The dog is still damp from his bath. The cats face is buried in the dogs towel. A Lamb Chop toy is behind them...why i don't know

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 6

Jun 6

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

On the afternoon dog walk, I saw these two smoke trees competing with each other.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #MapleLeafNeighborhood

The afternoon dog walk took me by these two smoke trees, one dark purple on the left, the other bright lime green on the right. A real contrast in colors! They arch over the sidewalk, which is lined with lawns and borders containing various eonymous, Russian sage and columbine plants.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 5 *

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Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

A visit to the P-Patch: 1. We painted the wheelbarrows ugly pink and branded them because theft! Too bad that a bad apple can spoil the community trust. 2. Potatoes! Not yet, but soon enough, maybe to eat baby potatoes with fresh peas 3. Someone made a pretty little nook amid the vegetable patches 4. This is a house across the street from the main entrance: the rhodies are still blooming! There are other flowers getting ready to bloom as the rhodies fade.
#SeattleSpring #SeattleWashington #PicardoFarmPPatch #SeattleParks #Photography

Two wheelbarrows, painted bright pink with "Picardo P-Patch* stenciled on the side, are leaned against a wooden garden box. The Picardo Gardeners voted to paint all the wheelbarrows we finagled after our other ones were stolen. Next time, the thieves will have to repaint them if they want to escape detection!

Potato plants are blooming with white flowers. The petals are curved back and the anthers are fused into a golden tube, with the pistil barely showing. The leaves are compound, green, and abundant. When the blooms fade, the lucky gardener will be able to enjoy baby potatoes!

A gardener turned a corner of their patch into a pretty little flower bed. At the back tall lilac iris tower over the mix of brunnera and dead nettle, with a border of ferns. Scattered throughout there are pansies, johnny-jump-ups and forget-me-nots. The border is contained by a wall of upside-down terracotta pots.

A house across the street from the community garden entrance is hedged by rhododendron bushes full of pale to dark pink flowers.The left and right sides are framed by large, green, straight-trunked tulips trees. The house itself is barely visible as a gray roof and a bit of sage green siding. The sidewalk below the hedging is slanted uphill to the right.

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · Jun 4

Jun 4

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Roses open in an intense shade of apricot, then, as they age, fade to cream touched with pink
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #BloomScrolling