Faced with hundreds of Rhododendron bushes, it’s easy to be distracted by other plants that stand out because they’re so different. I’m not normally a great fan of Magnolias, or any dramatically flowering tree, for that matter, but looking at this Magnolia flower close up I couldn’t resist taking a shot.
I was amazed to spot the same orchids that I so admired at the Bloedel Reserve a few days before. Best of all, these had a name tag, pleione formosan, and now I will be able to order some for my own garden. I wonder if deer eat them. If not I could naturalize them under the front cedar tree.
I couldn’t decide if someone had actually planted these yellow beauties or if they were native volunteers.
If they had intentionally planted them, they forgot to include a name tag, or I would have written that down, too.