I love spring
When the snow recedes and the flowers come up and bloom, that’s the thing I like best about spring. A couple of times, I thought spring had finally made it, then we had more snow and ice in our northern hemisphere. Overall, the plants held up, even if a few blooms didn’t make it.
Ice-coated flower stems
Although I don’t have a crocus bulb or snowdrop in my flower beds, I do have narcissus, paper white hyacinth and grape hyacinth. The narcissus are done now, but those little grape hyacinths are still blooming, sprinkled all over the garden, wherever they choose to grow. I took a bunch of those out, but left some here and there because I like them.
And then the flowers really began to bloom—grape hyacinth springing up between the purple phlox
the spring-pink blossoms on the uva ursi arctostaphylus
hyacinth
white phlox
then the multi-hued tulips I love
and for the visual effect of many put together… and some trimming that still had to be done on old growth
tulips next to the thyme
a bright bunch of those colourful tulips
My front garden with a marker where new bulbs will sprout next spring. Bulbs from the pots of flowers given to my father when he was in hospice that he wanted us to plant in our gardens to remember him. And we will, of course.
There’s a good part of my garden. It’s a work in progress, and of course there are more beds and they too will change over the seasons. More for another day.
photos by C. Wilker
Spring always has the brightest smile… 💕🌼🌷
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