Before the flowers push out. https://www.google.com/search?q=Gladiolus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3PNuVafbEpS5oQTf1oEw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1429&bih=992&dpr=0.9#tbm=isch&q=Gladiolus+flower+bud

Here's a tree in full bloom on our footpath. It's wonderful to see thousands of bees and butterflies feasting on the nectar. A friend said it was 'Milkweed', but when I checked online, I wasn't sure. I would love some help in identifying it. Thanks!

The spent flowers are camellia blossoms. If you post plant ID questions like this in the Name That Plant forum, you can be guaranteed of a correct ID, not just gesses. But I can assure you that both of mine are correct :-) And the wood hyacinths are considered little more than weeds here in the PNW. No one plants them intentionally - they just pop up from seed or from squirrels from other areas of the garden or from neighbors and once present, almost impossible to get rid of or predict where they might appear next season.

Oly, there is an orchid sitting to the far right. You can see a few of the flowers. Here is the purple, half-dead. I originally titled this “help me identify this half-dead flower” 😬 but I thought that wasn’t nice to ask people to identify a half-dead (or actually, almost totally dead) flower. HA! Then I found a photo of the arrangement when it was fresh. Below is the half-dead one. I’m pretty sure it isn’t an orchid. DD has the landscaper coming Monday to talk about putting in a cutting garden for DGD. That’s going to be a challenge. She’s 4. She uses the Queen of Hearts theory of flower cutting - “off with their heads.” 😂 ETA: They are looking at some of the flowers in the bouquet as a starting place for the cutting garden.