Chocolate Cosmos which isn't your typical Cosmos;

it smells like chocolate but is inedible.

Growing in a sidewalk planter in the Ballard WA area.

Caroline Spicebush

Growing in Ballard WA at the Carl S. English botanical gardens.

Green Zebra tomato.

Growing in the PNW (barely!).

Sunflowers always amaze me.

Growing in the PNW but thankfully they are happy

to grow any where!

Oakleaf Hydranga, the pink comes on stronger as the flowers age.

Simply stunning.

Growing in the PNW.

Sunshine in a lily.

Growing in the PNW.

Verbascum aka Mullein.

Grows anywhere it wants to!

Cleome, growing in the PNW.

Artichoke, growing in the PNW!

An amazing closeup of an Oriental Lily.

Grown in the PNW.

Skunk Cabbage growing in Newport, OR.

Thyme flowering in Wenatchee, WA.

I'm fairly certain this is a native Heuchera aka Coral Bells aka Alum Root.

If anyone knows for sure, let me know.

Taken in Anacortes, WA.

Liatris aka Gay Feather or Blazing Star,

no matter the name it's a beautiful flower.

Grown in the PNW.

Bluebeard and Black-Eyed Susan;

Caryopteris and Rudbeckia

Growing in the Pacific NW.

Beargrass, taken in Oregon near Bend.

Hosta flower buds, I love the soft beauty of them.

Taken in my garden.

Two very different Calendulas.

Calendula, a frequent volunteer in many gardens.

Pacific Madrone, love the peeling bark.

Picture taken in Anacortes, WA.

Fireweed. Taken at Hatcher Pass, AK

This photo was taken by a friend, thank you.

German Chamomile, happily growing in a planter in my yard.

Love this little plant, fragrance of green apples with

sunny little flowers.

Incarvillea Delavayi, better known as Hardy Gloxinia.

Mine wasn't so hardy though as it didn't live through one winter.

Taken in my garden in WA.

Not exactly a plant focused picture.

Dragonfly on what looks like a wild rose.

Anacortes, WA.

Wild blackberries and fennel.

Anacortes, WA.

This tree fungi (I cannot attempt to id him)

looks as though he is an old man guarding his tree!

This was taken on the Lake 22 hike in the

Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

I wanted to show you the family of Quail

that came home with me from Bend Oregon.

Rudbeckia (yellow coneflower)

Echinacea (purple coneflower)

Liatris (gay feather)

Corkscrew Willow

Nepeta (catmint)

Salvia

Columbine

There is quite a bit packed into this space!

The forest floor, Western Trillium is the star of this show.

Taken in Southern WA.

Love the Queen Anne's Lace, apparently so do the bugs!

This is a new addition in my vegetable garden this year.

Crocosmi and a Gladiolus growing next to each other.

Lovely combination isn't it?

Do you see the hummer? Bee Balm (Monarda)

growing through a Corkscrew Willow Tree

(it started out as a twig and now stands over 9 ft)

Climbing Rose. Simply Stunning isn't it.