Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
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Dahlias for Seniors project 2022 completed

Monday, October 17, 2022

Bouquets at the Ridgecrest Pub

Please join us for a Fall and Winter Dahlia Care Webinar Tuesday October 18, 2022 from 1-2:30pm

Another successful Dahlias for Seniors fundraiser generated donations to the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center this summer. Generous efforts by neighbors and friends, including Megan Kogut and her Ridgecrest Public House and Drumlin family eatery, were once again the key. Flowers were also available at the Senior Center.

Photo by John Hibbs
We had an unusually wet, cold May-June this year, causing our blooming season to begin late and reducing blossom numbers. Loyal supporters came through, taking beautiful flowers home and making the fundraiser a success. 

And, if you grow dahlias in the Puget Sound area and your flowers did not thrive this year, be consoled – it was the spring weather, not you, that made it so.

To wrap up the season, you are invited to attend a free webinar on Fall and Winter Dahlia Care this week Tuesday, October 18th, from 1-2:30pm in Zoom. Topics to be covered include:
  • When the season’s over – timing and cutting your dahlia plants back
  • Options for wintering tubers – leaving them in the ground or digging & storing options
  • Correct digging, washing, and cutting tubers before storage
  • Preventing tuber injury from freezing, drying out, molding over winter
  • Preparing a garden for next Spring
Please call the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center to register for the webinar 206-365-1536.

--John Hibbs



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Gloria Nagler: Initially I thought this was some sort of abstract artsy object,

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

floating on the wetlands pond! I later realized (like long minutes later) it was a lily pad that had collapsed sideways. Still looks pretty abstract to this photog:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Lee's Flowers: September blooms

Thursday, September 29, 2022

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

It's officially Fall - it finally rained a little - the days are shorter - but look at all the bright and beautiful blooms that Lee Lageschulte found on her walk.




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Flowers in Autumn

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Photo by Lee Lageschulte
Happiness is a beautiful, sunny day, bright flowers, and finally getting a spider at my front door (even if she did set up shop on the wrong side of the storm door.)

Lee is starting to send photos of leaves turning brown, but I think I'll stick with the colorful flowers for a while.

--Diane Hettrick


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First day of Autumn but we still have flowers

Friday, September 23, 2022

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

Now that the weather has changed and the days will be getting shorter, I miss the sun. But these lovely, glowing flowers help.



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Flowers in September

Sunday, September 18, 2022

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

The weather turned to fall this week but flowers are still blooming.



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Photo:Poem - Hibiscus blossom

Wednesday, September 7, 2022


White on white 
    translucent leaf and petal 

Hibiscus blossom on display 
    in the bright sunlight. 

--photo and text by Wayne Pridemore





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The flowers are on their own timetable

Saturday, September 3, 2022

All photos by Lee Lageschulte
 
Whether it's a blistering 90+ degrees or an overcast 65, the flowers keep blooming according to their own timetable. And our photographer Lee Lageschulte has a homing device for finding beautiful blooms.



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Roses love sunshine

Friday, August 26, 2022

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

This rose is the color of today's weather - a fitting match.



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Four o'clock plants don't like the heat and stay up late

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

4 o'clock plant in the cool morning
Photo by Dale Bauer

Story and photos by Dale Bauer

“Four o'clock plants (Mirabilis jalapa) are bushy blooming perennials. These tuberous-rooted plants produce slightly pointed oval leaves on branching stems. They get their common name because of the way they bloom. The flowers open in the late afternoon, typically around 4pm or so, and then remain open until the next morning.”  - thespruce.com

Despite what this says, our two plants follow their own schedule, but it is generally based upon avoiding open blossoms during the heat of the day. The first photo shows what our east facing plant looked like at 8 this morning, as the sky was overcast and it was relatively cool.

Same plant at 5 in the afternoon
Photo by Dale Bauer

Here is the same plant at five in the afternoon. Despite the fact that it had been in shade since noon, the heat seems to restrain its exuberance for opening up.

9pm and the plant is opening up
Photo by Dale Bauer

It is, however, opening up now at 9 pm as can be seen in this flash photo.

We started these plants from seeds that we harvested on Vancouver Island 25 years ago. The two plants that have been with us most of that time are planted within a foot or two of the foundation of our basement. 

They both have developed a tuber which is bigger than a large carrot, and I think that may keep them alive when we get the sort of winter weather that kills other plants farther from the house.



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The largest Dahlia Show in the nation at Sky Nursery August 27 and 28, 2022

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Dahlia show at Sky Nursery photo by Martin Kral

The weather is outstanding, so this year's Combined Dahlia Show at Sky Nursery will feature equally exceptional blooms! 

Held on Saturday, August 27 (noon to 6pm) and Sunday, August 28 (9am to 4pm), this is the largest dahlia exhibition in America, since it is sponsored by the Puget Sound Dahlia Association and the local Seattle Dahlia Society. 

Sky Nursery (just north of N 185th along Aurora Ave N.) hosts this show in its large greenhouse. With the natural lighting and well-spaced layout, the venue offers just about the most perfect environment for a flower show.

This event is free to the public, so bring your friends and take some photos of prize-winning dahlias.

Contact Martin Kral 206-546-9692 if you have questions.



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More signs that summer is here - two members of the buttercup family

Sunday, July 24, 2022

 
Photo by Dale Bauer

Photo by Dale Bauer
Two lovely members of the buttercup family.
 

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Flowers: Purple poppy

Monday, July 18, 2022

Photo by Dale Bauer

This beauty is more lavender than purple but I liked the alliteration.

--Diane Hettrick



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Always toward the sun

Thursday, July 14, 2022

 
Photo by Susan Westphal

In case we forget where it is, this sunflower at the Twin Ponds community garden will keep us apprised of the location of the sun.

The Twin Ponds food bank garden provides organic, fresh vegetables to local food banks during the entire growing season, currently the Lake City North Helpline. 

It was created and is maintained by volunteers.

Correction: produce currently goes to the North Helpline Food Bank


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June flowers

Saturday, June 25, 2022

All photos by Lee Lageschulte
 
The flowers of June



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Purple flowers at Kruckeberg

Friday, June 24, 2022

 
Photos by Barbara Twaddell

Purple day at Kruckeberg Botanic Garden




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What is this flower?

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Photo by Lee Lageschulte

What is this flower? I have never seen anything like it before. It's growing on a stalk like hyacinth but the flowers are different.

We apparently have a trend toward the purple and the gold. First lupine, now this.



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Photo: Poem - Alone in the Cold

Monday, June 13, 2022

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

 Alone in the cold a young bud will wait,

to finally bloom before it is too late.

                                           Caitlin Rimmer




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Field of Flowers

Sunday, June 12, 2022

 
Photo by Lee Lageschulte

A small field of wildflowers brightens the grey day.





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Photo:Poem Lavender and the Bee

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

The busy bees
love my lavender
They are on it all the time
Drinking up the pollen
when the weather is sublime.

Jemverse poem



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