Have you noticed… the trees are coming into bloom! The forsythia has been doing its best to march on like good soldiers through the chill of late March. And now this week the cherries burst forth! Not generally a pink or yellow fan, somehow the shocking contrast between the forsythia and cherry blooms makes me quite giddy! The magnolias are gracefully opening their voluptuous flowers like the Madonnas they are. The quince buds are swelling, promising their coral charms in just a few more days. Apple, pear and dogwood blossoms are surely not far behind. These delicate heralds of spring are so fleeting, here today and gone with the next spring rain. Go out and have a picnic under the cherry trees this weekend!
I entered the photo above of flowering quince
in the Gardening Gone Wild Picture This Photo Contest.
Nothing makes me happier than the first flowers of spring!! Love the flowering quince image!!
Very nice…it is so good to see the blooms of spring. I am looking forward to all of the flowering plants coming forth…it has been too long.
Lovely blooms. Good luck with your entry–it is beautiful.
What a beautiful shade of pink the quince flowers are. Happy Spring to you and good luck with the photo contest.
Congrats on winning the photo contest! How super cool! (sorry it took me this long to realize you’d won, too!)
By the way, I sure miss your blog, but I’ll bet you’re busy.
Aw, thanks, Jason! I was surprised I won the contest, but delighted, of course. I just love that photo so much so it was nice to be able to share it with more people.
Yes, I miss blogging, but really haven’t got a second of time or an ounce of energy to spare any more with the flower biz being so demanding. But I do plan to catch up with both the food and gardening blogging over the winter. There’s so much to share! Any chance you’re still thinking of moving east?
I’m delighted to hear that you’re busy — it’s exciting to know that your business is taking off (and you’ve got all of those lovely Facebook pictures to prove it!). Your garden is looking spectacular from the photos I’ve seen. I’m totally envious of your space!!
I was going to keep it a secret from all of cyberspace, but James and I have more or less decided where we’ll be moving: northwest Michigan (Leelanau County, hopefully). We’re excited about it, but there’s much to be done. We’re most likely going to have a custom home built — and the property will include oodles and oodles gardening/farming space! Our own little utopia!
Beautiful!