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Early Spring

1:05 PM | Labels: daffodil, garden, helleboro, Narcissus, Pink Saturday, Show Off Your Cottage Monday

There’s a light rain outdoors as I stepped out with the cats

to see what is going on in the garden.

I noticed our two, very large rosemary bushes at the front were filled with blooms. These are the first since the extreme pruning I gave them last year.

The Hellebores are filling up with their shy, but gorgeous blossoms.

One by one, the daffodils are bringing drops of sunshine here and there in our garden.

Still blooming, the fragrant, star-like Narcissus are shining brightly.

With our unseasonable warm weather, I have early chores to do – weeding! But, it gets me closer to the ground, closer to the soil and to the budding flowers that I so look forward to each year.

Oh, how marvelous it is to share in the beauty God creates –

for his glory and for our appreciation.

I am sharing this brief garden update with these Delightsome blog parties:

Pink Saturday

Saturday Show Off

Flowers on Saturday

Today's Flowers

Show Off Your Cottage Monday

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Garden Notebook

12:38 PM | Labels: columbine, Garden Notebook, helleboro, Iris, jacob's ladder, mock orange, pansy, roses

Second Act

Prelude

I was sharing with my neighbor this past weekend that I felt this year my garden was like an orchestra tuning up for a beautiful symphony. I walk around and see the garden filling up with plants and blooms - buds are just at the brink of opening.

Some have made an appearance as if to say - stay a while -there's more to come.

The Columbine

The Helleboro

The Iris

Jacob's Ladder

Mock Orange

Pansies

The Peonies

The Roses

Queen Elizabeth

Knockout Rose

One of the roses that was given to me by my gardening friend,
my neighbor says he remembers this rose growing in his
grandmother's garden - I hope to identify it this year

Memorial Day - a very fragrant rose - the first few
are very large - it is a little washed out looking in this photo -
direct sunlight - it is really a deeper pink

You will see more of this rose later this evening in my
A Return to Loveliness post

Yellow Roses and Yellow Iris are getting very close to blooming

Coming Attractions

I saved the containers from Rotisserie Chickens

thinking they'd make good mini greenhouses. So far so good.

After the seeds immerged, I placed them outdoors to get morning sun.

I am sharing this post with these garden parties

Tuesday Garden Party
Bloomin Tuesday

Outdoor Wednesday

Cottage Flora Thursday

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Garden Anticipation

12:35 PM | Labels: daffodil, forsythia, garden, helleboro, Narcissus, Spring

Budding Promises

We're in an every other day pattern here.
One day cold and rainy.
The next bright, warm and sunny.
This morning was brilliantly sunny.
I have been watching this daffodil for
several days now. I anticipate this will
be the first among many to bloom.

When we moved here, I brought nearly all of our flowers

from our previous home. Among those were several

daffodils. The majority of the blooms, however

we rescued. There was once a plantation where

quite a number of bulbs resided.

Generations later the family sold the land to

a granite mining company. They mined the area

for a while then abandoned it. For several years

the land lay dormant and the daffodils

bloomed and multiplied. Then, as things would

happen - the land has been resold to another

granite mining company. Several of us

visited this site prior to rescue as many daffodils as we could.

The land is stripped and barren now - the mining is slated

to begin soon.

So, each spring I have the blessing of very old

some doubled, daffodils.

The Forsythia is budding too - I didn't

get very good pictures - I believe

I will be able to bring several branches

in soon to force indoors.

The sun has gone behind clouds now. The air is cooling.

We may get some snow in the early hours of the morning.

I have wished for several years for snow - I love it!

This year is quite a blessed one. Yet, I count the days

until I can be outdoors visiting the garden as

skeletal beings remind me of the beauty they once

were and they begin to awake from a long winter's nap.

As I cleared some debris I found this!

Hello! Helleboro!

What a delight! I had been looking and somehow

missed her. There are several buds surrounding her.

She bows so you need to lift her head to see her beauty.

A tiny Narcissus is blooming too - someone clipped
her leaves by accident. But, she like many others
are persevering. I am anticipating spring and
counting the days while I keep watch on all the
changes in my garden.