#Prunus, possibly x subhirtella 'Atsumori', blooming now. I think this is my favourite! Sweet light perfume.

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Four views of the flowers from close and further away. They grow in clusters of about 10 flowers, each is semi-double and the most delicate warm pink washed over white petals. Each petal is rounded at the outer end. The stamens are golden yellow and sit neatly apart from each other.

Happy Beltane morning!

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Alt: screen capture from the Merlin bird ID app showing a list of the calls it detected: American Crow, Black Capped Chickadee, American Robin, House Sparrow, Glaucous-winged Gull, and Red-winged Blackbird; and next to each a thumbnail picture of the bird.

#Euphorbia characias ssp wulfenii, Wulfen's #Spurge. This grows all over Vancouver - it's drought tolerant, evergreen, and rugged. The flowers smell like rotting meat to attract flies, as here.

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Alt: 3 views of the flower clusters, large groups of dramatic yellow-green against cool blue-green foliage. Each floret has three tiny buds that open, sequentially, into acid-yellow flowers.

#Tulipa cretica 'Hilde', an old (said to be mid 1800s) selection of the species .

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Alt: on white, several views of a potful of blooms. The flowers are small (~4 cm fully open), white petals with a pale pink blush on outside and ends, bright yellow throat and pollen. The leaves are strappy and few, each bulb produced 2-3 blooms on slender brown stems rising well above the foliage. Pleasant musky-floral perfume even when closed.

#Dendrobium 'Samarai' (D. stratiotes x D. antennatum, Limberlost, 1967) fully open.

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2 col photos on white. Strange white flowers with a pair of pale green upright petals like twisty antennae, another pair like floppy ears, and a "face" striped deep magenta. In the background some yellow-green leaves. Sweet but not overpowering perfume.

Aurinia saxatilis, Golden-tuft Alyssum, and Muscari armeniacum, Grape Hyacinth, in a neighbour's garden.

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Alt: Aurinia's a golden cloud of tiny flowers, spilling over a wall; contrasting with them the gorgeous dark blue-purple of the Muscari like tiny bunches of grapes. Matrix of bright green foliage. It's a brilliant combination, chosen not just for colour but for simultaneous bloom. And intensely sweet perfume!

I feel seen.

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Alt: at our local community garden, a crow is perched on the top of plant stake, one of many. It's looking at me rather skeptically. Also starring: blooming canes of redcurrant bushes.

We made it! let's party! Taraxacum officinale (dandelion) and Bellis perennis (little daisy).

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3 colour photos. 1. Closeup of one dandelion, which is actually quite a pretty golden sunburst of a flower. 2. The same dandelion with 100 of its closest dandelion friends behind it. 3. A tiny white lawn daisy and a crowd of dandelions in a margin of the park down the street.

A view from the southwest side of Mount Rainier National Park (Puyallup, Yakima, Nisqually, Cowlitz and Muckleshoot).

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Alt: a vertical landscape. In the foreground a couple of live trees and snags. A valley with a river winds away into the distance where there are increasingly dim and cloudy misty foothills and dense forest.

#Viola 'Rosa Antique'.

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A potful of violas against black backdrop. They have the typical viola "face" with the petals all edged various shades of purple and rose and the throat bright yellow. Below are bright green healthy leaves. Here the plant is in its first flush of bloom in the spring.