Just sharing some more blooms from spring. This is the California lilac I mentioned earlier. It’s a big bush that’s almost as tall as the Japanese maple.
California lilac is a very fragrant flowering shrub that is also an evergreen and drought tolerant. The plant selection keeps the landscaping here very simple and neat.
I planted some “leftover” tulip bulbs in some flower pots and soon forgot about them. Surprisingly they are now in bloom! These plants do get lots of nice sunshine and shade throughout the day.
This is the pink tulip getting some shade. And of course my little Dessert Rose (which I prefer to call them, but they are really named “hens and chicks”) in the blue and white pot. They are succulent evergreen perennials. It is a super easy to grow plant.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful spring. Happy Easter!
Beautiful vase of colorful tulips and daffodils. Photo from The Flower Pot in Montreal.
Fancy dark chocolates by Hotel Chocolat. They look really neat, a chocolate egg filled with little bunnies and birds. I think I know some chocolate lovers out that would really love them. They are luxuriously priced at $45 for 11.6 oz . How about some little luxuries from them instead? Photo by Hotel Chocolat.
The first sign of spring for us in California is usually peach or plum blossoms. But sometimes you can catch wild daffodils growing alongside the highway too. And the one I look out for most of all is pretty and colorful tulips growing from the garden. They don’t look like normal flowers since they remind me more of Easter eggs in different colors.
Photo from The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Information.
And when I think of tulips, I always think of the Netherlands. Or the fact that tulips at one time in history was very valuable and caused a “tulip mania”. Or more of a speculative bubble, like that of the dot come years. But that is a whole other topic. Read the rest of this entry »
