Peach blossoms showing out on a cloudy day.
I’ve always loved cooler temperatures and for most of my life considered fall and winter to be my favorite seasons. And I still love them.
But since becoming a gardener, most especially since becoming a perennial gardener, I have fallen deeply and madly in love with SPRING.
Is there anything more magical than watching a bud emerge and slowly open? To observe the process of bud blooming to flower and flower dying in order to give way to emerging fruit is the opportunity to observe, most beautifully, the cycle of life.
Strawberry blossoms making way for some sweet fruit.
It’s during this time of year, as winter hands the baton over to spring, that so many exciting wonders unfold every day in the garden. I love to watch as new leaves emerge, having noticed a few days prior where they were beginning to make their way from the branch. It’s those tiny details that you have to be up close to see that I love the most. The daily almost imperceptible changes that the casual observer would miss.
As I child, one of my favorite books was the Secret Garden and while I don’t (yet) have a secret garden, I love taking the time to listen and learn the secrets that every garden is longing to share! What secrets has your garden shared with you?
Emerging blueberry buds.
Plum cherry blossom from a tree transplanted two years ago from a friend’s yard. This is the first year it has blossomed … and it’s loaded.
Yarrow plant preparing to flower.
Indian blanket flower waiting to emerge in all its red and yellow glory!
Forget-me-nots blooming from seeds sown and then ironically forgotten more than a year ago.
The secret world of mint.
The flowers die so the fruit can emerge.
Apple blossoms in their faded glory.
The delicately dainty blueberry blossoms.
Raindrops forming perfect tiny spheres on blueberry leaves.