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Showing posts with label spring flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring flowers. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2012

Spring Flowers - Round Three

It was close to being a summer day yesterday, high 70's and showers. I was an April showers bring May flowers kind of day. The clematis has big buds and should be ready to pop in another week or two making them summer flowers. So these may be the last of the spring flowers…. grape hyacinth, tulips, phlox and panies.


Did you know that grape hyacinth are part of the lily family and are often used in perfume?



After the rain I picked a few of the blooms for a small bouquet.




White phlox.







I have one lone but perfect tulip. Over the years I've planted others but they seem irresistible to squirrels or chipmunks who keep digging them up and eating them or moving the bulbs to some secret location.


As spring is close to wrapping up I'm looking forward to the first round of the summer flowers.






Friday, March 30, 2012

Spring Flowers - Round Two

The wonderful thing about gardening is you get multiple rounds of flowers, something glorious is always popping up. This week in my garden it is daffodils…… I don't use much yellow in my garden, so I try to keep the yellows soft and closer to white.



The flowers below were a grocery store find, way brighter than I'd have in my garden but still very pretty. Bunnies and daffodils seem to go hand in hand for spring.







The bunny is Andrea's from when she was young. I think the bunny looks a little sad she did not make the cut to move to her NYC apartment. Trust me no room, Andrea's apartment is tiny!





   


This week our temperatures are back to being very chilly, in the low 40's. It seems cruel after having summer like weather for the last two weeks with it being in the 70's and 80's.  Luckily we have not had a hard frost. Looking forward to the next round of blooms, what is blooming in your area?

A thank you goes out to Patti and Paula at Ivy and Elephants for featuring our post about Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies. Patti and Paula host a linky party called What's it Wednesday. These two friends have the most amazing collections of vintage and beautiful items. If you have not visited their blog you are missing out!!!!



Friday, March 16, 2012

First Spring Flowers


We are having really warm weather here in Michigan this week, it has been in the 70's every day. This is about 30 degrees above normal for this time of year. So we have the early arrival, by almost a month, of our spring flowers. The lenten roses are the first to arrive, sometimes coming up while there is still snow on the ground.



And everyones favorite little bulbs, crocuses ….





What's blooming in your garden?


Hope you have a wonderful weekend and a great St. Patty's Day!!





Linking to this week:
Macro Monday
Mosaic Monday
Pink Saturday




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