Love, Joy and Peas: Virginia blue bell

Friday, April 15, 2016

Dahlia, Hyacinth, Tulip, Lilac and Virginia Blue Bell Flowers

Happy floral Friday and welcome to "this week in my Maryland garden!" My kind husband bought this amazing bicolor dahlia this week and I love it.

These hyacinths look more blue in person but they are gorgeous either way.

Last week the Angelique tulips were just opening and this week they are at peak beauty.

The lilacs are just starting to bloom and already smell fantastic.

Our one surviving Virginia blue bell plant is blooming. The bleeding hearts are blooming too but I didn't get a decent photo. Maybe next week, God willing.

What are your favorite spring flowers? Do you have any special garden plans this year? I'd love to hear about them if you do!

Thank you for visiting! May God bless you!

Related posts:
Lilacs in full bloom: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2015/05/lilacs-azaleas-dianthus-and-dahlias-for.html
Best pansies: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2015/05/pansies-primroses-lilacs-and-angelique.html
Amazing dahlia and ranunculus: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2014/05/dahlias-ranunculus-azaleas-lilacs-and.html

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Fresh Spring Flowers: This Week in My Maryland Yard

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!