Spring is my favorite time of the year and this has been an exceptionally great week for flower gardening. I took this picture of our first iris bloom of 2012 two days ago just after a rain. God willing, we'll have blue, purple and yellow irises following in the next few weeks.
A walk around the yard this morning revealed our first azalea bloom of 2012. You can see a bunch of buds promising more flowers soon. This bush is on our sunny side yard. We have three azaleas in our shady back yard and they have buds but no blooms yet.
I love violets but my husband thinks they're weeds. If you love violets please comment below so I can show him others appreciate them too and maybe he'll let more of them live!
Remember
photo from a couple weeks ago when the bleeding heart foliage was just pushing through the ground? As you can see in the photo above, the bleeding heart plant is blooming freely now.
Our Virginia blue bells are just starting to flower.
My beloved husband may not like violets but he likes these purple African daisies because he bought three pots of them last week to brighten our front walkway.
This week hubby also purchased and planted this nifty fringe petaled gebera daisy. We still have a lot of weeding to do, mulch to lay, seeds to plant and more but I find when I focus on the beauty of the flowers (instead of all the work that still needs to be done) I enjoy our garden a lot more. The flowers God created are beautiful and they bring joy to my soul. May God bless you today and always!
They bring joy to my soul too! It just boggles my mind how someone can look at the beauty of nature and not believe there is a God.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of your flowers! You can tell your hubby that I love violets also. Their purple smiling faces make me happy! His purple African daisies and the pink fringe petaled gerbera daisy were excellent choices. :)
Thank you Tam :) Will pass on your kind compliments to him and tally a vote for saving the violets :)
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