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The Floral Arch features different flowers each season.

"Golden Nickles"  Dahlia

"RaeAnn's Pollux"  Dahlia, with unusual petals

"Shilo Jazzman"  Dahlia

The Dahlia Garden is one of the richest and most diverse at the Botanical Gardens.

They plant all new varieties every year, so each year we get to enjoy dozens of new

colors and shapes and forms.

"Raspberry Fizz"  Dahlia - a totally new form of petals

"Alberta Sunset"  Dahlia  - with different colors and shaped petals

"Kenora Lisa"  Dahlia

"Granny Norman" Dahlia was a beautiful white, prolifically blooming variety

"Bonnie's Button"  variegated peach dahlia

"Snowflake  White  Dahlia"

"The Archduchess"  Dahlia with unusually shaped and colored petals

"Strawberries and Cream"  Dahlia

A cluster of  "Strawberries and Cream"  Dahlias

"Bloomquiet Cayson"  Dahlia

"Midnight Lady"  Dahlia

"Helen to Betsy"  Dahlia

"Sandia Brocade"  Dahlias.  They combine the flat large outer petals with the tight cluster

petals in the center.

"Sandia Brocade" Dahlias.

"Snowflake" white spiked dahlias

"Flirtation"  Dahlia

"Cheyenne"  White and Yellow Dahlia

"Granny Normal"  Dahlia with full, rounded petals

"Strawberrries and Cream"  and  "Bahama Festival"  Dahlias

Esplanade Gardens and Fountain

"Black-Eyed Susans,"  pergola, and Esplanade

"Sunrise"  pale yellow coneflower

"Sneezeweed"

Close-up of  "Sneezeweed"

"Venti  Golden  Yellow"  Dahlia

"Gaillardia"  "Heat-It-U-Yellow"

Floral Arch and Red/Yellow/Orange Beds

"New York Aster."  This was new to me, but was a beautiful small flower covering

the bush.

A visitor with the Black-Eyed Susans

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The "White Garden" with white petunias, roses, and dahlias.

Split Rail fence with various  colored coneflowers.

Pink, Adobe, and Red Coneflowers

Red and Yellow Coneflowers

Lettuce Patch with green and red varieties

Vegetable Garden with poles of cucumbers and new varieties of "Orange Lady"

and "Yellow Lady" Marigolds.  In the background, you can see the great ski jump

of the Olympic Village.  You can ride all the way to the top for a magnificent view

of the city.

Marigold and cucumber patch in Vegetable Garden

All the produce of these gardens is given to various food pantries.

"Black-Eyed Susans."  These flowers come in a number of different color combinations

and sizes.  This variety is all yellow.

These "Black-Eyes Susans" light up the whole garden with their bright yellow.

The "Rose Mallow Garden" is very unusual.  These flowers are each the size of a

dinner plate.  "White Ballet Slippers."  There are many colors and color combinations.

"Deep Wine"  Rose Mallows.  These are extra large, 14" diameter

"Jazzberry Jam"  Rose Mallows

"In Your Face"  Pink Rose Mallows

"Jazzberry Jam"  Rose Mallows and "Red and Orange Garden" in back

"Alice Longgown"  White and Pink Rose Mallow

"White Ballet Slippers"  Rose Mallows

"Pink Petticoats"  Rose Mallow 14" diameter

"Sweet Caroline"  Pink Rose Mallow with prominent veins

"Summerific Cherry Cheesecake"  Rose Mallow   12" diameter

Central  Esplanade leading to cafe.

Blue Scaevola,  Yellow and Orange Marigolds,  and Red Coleus

"Champagne Fizz" Stonecrop

Traditional "Black-Eyed Susans."

"Elizabeth Goodrich"  Dahlia.  All the varieties of dahlias this year are new.  I did not

photograph a single one of them last year.

"Scintillation"  Dahlia

"Pooh"  Dahlia

Bed of various orange colored dahlias.

"Bahama Festival"  large dahlia

Orange Cluster Dahlias

A perfect Orange Cluster Dahlia

A visitor amidst Black-Eyed Susans in the Vegetable Garden

To be continued  .  .  .

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