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Saturday, March 2, 2013

A Little Color to Share

 A small vase to hold a collection of colors, textures, perfumes and corresponding memories.
Rosemary, spiky, aromatic, dressed in Provencale colors.
Velvet wallflowers in burnished orange, wafting scents that take me back to the garden of my Mother's Great Aunt Flossie.
 Brash petunias and perfumed stock, encroached upon by a bustle of sweet-pea starters and the evergreen leaves of jasmine. The stakes are there to support the Dahlias that are hidden to all but my inner eye, for now.
 Forget-me-nots blueing up in my overcrowded pots.
 Wall flower habitat. Unstructured, willful, messy. 
 Birds-eye view of sweet-pea plants that have reached a foot tall already, and had to be tied up to the trellis today. There is a seating area just the other side of this low wall, and a crab-apple tree behind, that flowers in an abundance of rich cotton candy pinks.
 The small green leaves down in front are Columbines. I see the flowers that are not there yet.
Orchids in a pot, by my front door. They come back every year, from this plant that I bought at the flea-market, on a jaunt with faraway friends. This year's abundance has let me use orchids as a cutting flower.

24 comments:

  1. Beautiful flowers. I can't wait for spring.

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  2. Friends told me I would miss my European flowers....but the tropics have flowers with discreet charm too.

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  3. Ugh your giving me garden envy, we had snow this morning :(.

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  4. Stephen, As these are mostly in pots, I've been able to push them along a bit. A judicious application of fertilizer and moving them for optimum sun exposure.

    Helen, I love Hibiscus and Hawaiian Ginger too. That's for later in the year.

    Train-Wreck Girl, Don't be envious, it balances out. Our Spring is over in a flash. A lot of Spring flowers can't last in the heat. Gardening is no fun when it's too hot, either.

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  5. Ahhh, Spring must be just around the corner.

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    1. Birdie, It's a bit erratic, between cold and sun and fog. With the clocks setting us back to dark mornings next weekend, winter will surely have another go at us.

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  6. How lovely to see some COLOUR! Over here, the scennery has been unrelenting browns and greys for months and months!

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    1. Frances, I've often travelled to England in February, when ticket prices ebb. Cornwall is all dead brown bracken and granite with splashes of golden gorse, at this time of year. Even the sunny colors are prickly.
      I miss the spring hedgerows every year. Rampant bluebells and primroses. There's nothing like it anywhere.

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  7. how gorgeous....you have brightened my morning!!

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  8. Very pleasing to the eye hen, they remind me I must soon start putting out my own pots in time for the seasons change.

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    1. Chef, I've some cilantro and parsley waiting to go into grown-up pots. I need to do a major division of bulbs and such to make room. Maybe next week?

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    2. I shall wait and perhaps follow your lead dear lady.

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  9. I have little crocuses and snowbells rearing out of my lawn in the most unexpected places. Guess the squirrels were at work planting. It's not really been warm enough here in NJ for too much blossoming yet, but soon......I hope. (May be a snowstorm this week...*sigh*)

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  10. Jean, I have experienced your climate at this time of year. Wise flowers to keep their heads down.

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  11. I needed to see these flowers as I look out at the never ending snow on the prairie.....

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  12. Maria, I think I'd have indoor flowers, if I lived in a wintery place. Cyclamen and Azaleas do quite well in pots on window sills. Great, vibrant colors and Cyclamen has a sweet perfume too.

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  13. I think I might end up a gardener, if I had your climate. These blooms nourish you, don't they?

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  14. Lovely :) I miss flowers and colours, Poland at this time of year is predominantly monochromatic!

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  15. Wiola, I remember that from Northern Germany (The two coldest years of my life). I hope you're enjoying being close to family.

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  16. Being close to my family feels wonderful, a little novel, and I am trying to get the best out of it! It's true about the cold though, good job I like snow. Spring should bring a good change and apparently, it's just around the corner...

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