I hardly ever get to the botanical garden, but it seems to me that there’s always something flowering there.

The camellia tree outside the visitors’ center is in full bloom and looks to have been working on it for a while, judging by the number of dropped flowers all over the place.

An adorable herd of drawf irises pose in front of a boulder at the rock garden.

This month at the photo meetup, someone commented that a particularly mild winter had confused the plants up at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, and they were starting to flower early — something that will no doubt continue until the next good frost punishes all of the early adopters. The opinion was that if all goes well, there might actually be a double-flowering season this year: once now, and once in the fall. I had to go take a quick look for myself of course, and I did see a few crumpled and confused-looking hyacinths, before I was driven off by some rather grumpy robins.