Flower Friday and Miscellaneous Fun

If you don't like Orchids, please move on.


A bee's eye view of Arbutus menziesii flowers

Flowers of Acacia leprosa

Hey, Mom! Look what I made in school today! Can we tack it on the fridge?!

Bleeding Heart Glorybower Clerodendrum thomsoniae

Lily, up close and personal

This is the way we walk to school, walk to school...

...walk to school...

...so early in the morning.

When plants are in distress

Glowing leaves of Musa basjoo

Steel toe shoes go high fashion

"I am the master of the Conservatory. All is within my domain. You must serve me. Now bring me Nepeta cataria."

Orchid Extravaganza

Need I say more?

Flower Friday

Hard at work in Floral Design class

Lathyrus odoratus

Clivia miniata

Walking In A Winter Wonderland

Anyone got a seat warmer?



The Main Fountain Garden

Shhhhhhh! Be vewy, vewy, qwiat! I'm hunting wabbits! Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh!

And birds...



I really wanted to dash in and make a snow angel!



How to make dormant grasses pretty in the winter.

This kind of gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "a blanket of snow"!

A Cardinal getting its USDA of Vitamin C



If the snow is too beautiful for you, then you go inside.

This Orchid sphere measures 6' across and took two people three days to assemble



How much you wanna bet she's knitting a scarf?

Flower Friday

Hardenbergia violacea 'Happy Wanderer'


Hybiscus 'Fifth Dimension'


Sphrolaeliocattleya g. Hazel Boyd 'Debbie'


The winter remains of what looks to be some sort of woodland Hydrangea.