Magenta-colored rose bloom

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
~ George Eliot

🌱 Sending you'all so much joy on this #MagentaMonday 🩷 in the garden #BloomScrolling 🏵️ #FlowerReport 🌹 #GardeningZone10a

purple rose bloom

"purple does something strange to me"
~ Charles Bukowski

🌱 A joyful #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜 to all you purple-loving gardeners!

#BloomScrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 💐 #GardeningZone10a

2 yellow Dahlias in the green background of the garden

“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
~ Luther Burbank

Sending garden love to all of you'se guys on this 🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow

#BloomScrolling 🌺 #FlowerReport 🏵️ #GardeningZone10a

Milkweed flowers budding, hosting a prominent striped Monarch caterpillar; blurry green and garden background

"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
~ George Carlin

I planted extra Milkweed this year to help make up for all that was lost in the January fires.

🌱 #InsectThursday 🐛 #BloomScrolling 🏵️ #FlowerReport 🌻 #GardeningZone10a

Magenta cosmos bloom, purple petunia lurking in the background amongst the green of leaves, and such

“To dwell is to garden.”
~ Martin Heidegger

Certainly! 🌱 Hope something great happens as you dwell in your gardens! #MagentaMonday🌺 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🌻 #GardeningZone10a

Red and white striped rose bloom, dark green leaves

"Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent."
~ Charlie Mackesy, "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse"

⭐🌱 Wishing you a brave and joyful Sunday, gardening lovelies!

#Bloomscrolling🌺 #FlowerReport🌹#StunDay ☀️ #GardeningZone10a 🐝

Rosa 'Frida Kahlo' bloom with rose buds and green leaves, garden zombie visible in the background

"I paint flowers to prevent them from dying."
~ Frida Kahlo

#InMyGarden Rosa 'Frida Kahlo' blooms early and happily 🌱 #FlowerReport ☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #GardeningZone10a

Blue petunia bloom, pink cosmos flower, green leaves

“Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.”
~ Myron Kaufmann

🌱 What's growing in your garden?

#AlwaysBePlanting 🌺 #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport ☀️ #GardeningZone10a

White rose bloom

“The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.”
~ Angelus Silesius

🌱 Sharing gardening love on this #RoseWednesday🌹#BloomScrolling ☀️ #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a

pink roses blooming against fencing

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
~ Vincent Van Gogh

🌱 On this #MagentaMonday for you a couple o' pretty roses🌹 #FlowerReport ☀️ #Bloomscrolling🌺 #GardeningZone10a

yellow bloom, little bit of water, dark green background

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
~ Audrey Hepburn (born on this day in 1929)

🌱 Garden joy to you'all on this #YellowSunday☀️ #SundayYellow #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling #GardeningZone10a 🐝

pink rose bud

“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
~ Katharine Lee Bates

🌱 Sharing happiness and pink from #GardeningZone10a ☀️ on this #RoseWednesday🌹 #Bloomscrolling 🪷 #FlowerReport 🌱

Alyssum blooms among leaves and more small pinkish flowers, green leaves

“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”
~ Doug Larson

Sharing joy on this #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a ☀️

two blue clematis blooms

"When you kept the weeds from your bare little garden, and when you dug for others and hid away ugliness and disorder, you planted a Blue Flower every day."
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Blue or purple?

💙 #BlueskyMonday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningZone10a #FlowerReport #MacroMonday🌱

small succulents among rocks

"In a world full of flowers, be a cactus."
~ Kul Bhushan Negi

All cacti are succulents but not all succulents are cacti.

🌱 #SundaySucculents 🌵 #Bloomscrolling 🪷 #FlowerReport 🐝 #GardeningZone10a ☀️

pink poofy flower on a green stem in the garden (which is fuzzy in the background)

“The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.”
~ Robert Leighton

Cold and nasty (for us) in the garden today, but this flower bloomed yesterday and she's pretty and pouffy! And pink!

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday 🌹 #FlowerReport 🌺 #Bloomscrolling ☀️ #GardeningZone10a 🐝

Bee enjoying yellow & orange striped nasturtiums

"In the symphony of nature, insects provide the rhythm, melody, and harmony that sustain life's song."
~ Bert Hölldobler

🌱 Sharing joy and hope on this #InsectThursday🐝 #FlowerReport 🌺 #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #GardeningZone10a 🌱

Rosa 'Hanky Panky' miniature rose bloom against green background

pink and white miniature rose bloom and bud, green leaves

rose buds, green leaves, garden netting in the background

“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

🌱 Happy wishes for #RoseWednesday in your garden.

I especially love the miniature roses. You?

☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport 🐝 #GardeningZone10a 🌺 #InMyGarden 🌷

pink petunia bloom and plant

"Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun."
~ Ellen Everett

Wishing all'you'all a joy filled #FlowersonFriday 🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a ☀️

Purple pansy blooms

Pink Lewisia flowers

Creamsicle-colored carnation blossom

rose bud

"But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that."
~ Edna Ferber

🌱 a few good buds in my garden today🌻 #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport🌺 #GardeningZone10a 🌱

Monarch butterfly perched on leaves and stems in the garden, milkweed seed poof dangling in the corner

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."
~ Alfred Austin

Lovely greetings, kind gardeners 🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🫛 #MicroMonday 🐝 #FlowerReport 🌻 #GardeningZone10a 🌺 #Springing ☀️

Lilac sweet peas blooms with gardenish background

“Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.”
~ Allison Pearson

Right? And that scent!

What's blooming in your garden, Sweet Peas?

🌱 #FlowerReport 🌼 #GardeningZone10a ☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #SweetPeas 🌺

pink and cream-orange-ish roses, green buds, gray wall, other flowers, green leaves and such in the background

“Of all flowers, me thinks a rose is best.”
~ William Shakespeare

Me too, Will.

Wishing all'you'all lovely BlueSky gardeners a joyful #RoseWednesday 🌱

🌹 #FlowerReport ☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #GardeningZone10a

Small apricot-colored miniature rose bloom hanging in front of green leaves and blackish background

"She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined."
~ Erin Hanson

🌱 A bit cold (for us) #TinyFlowerTuesday but blooms are blooming, and it is April, kind gardeners! 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a

light purple rose bloom spotting with a few drops of water, smaller yellow rose just behind it, rose buds and green in background

"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
~ Marcelene Cox

It's a tiny bit misty out there. I'm a wuss.

🌱 #SundayYellow ☀️ #YellowSunday 🌹 #FlowerReport 🐝 #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #GardeningZone10a 🍅

Cilantro leaf, small bunch of white Alyssum flowers, small pink & white flowers in the background among green leaves and stems

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."
Gertrude S. Wister

☀️ #GardeningZone10a 🦋 #TinyFlowerTuesday
🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🐝

Magenta petunia flowers with green and dirt background

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."
~ Charles Dickens

🌱 What's blooming in your garden?

#FlowerReport ☀️ #MagentaMonday 🐝 #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #Gardeningzone10a 🌹

small light purple flower, green background

"Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight."
~ Melody Lee

Sharing sunshine and joy for all you'se 🌱💙🌱 to enjoy on #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌼 #GardeningZone10a 💛

purple rose and buds

I prune the roses on my birthday, holding in my heart all those who help me grow.

🌱 #roses #bloomscrolling #GardeningZone10a #OnlyBeautifulThings🌹