Blue Morning Glory bloom, in the garden

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

🌱 A very happy #FlowersOnFriday to the joyful #GardenersOfBlueSky 💜 #FloralFriday #Bloomscrolling #Zone10a

"More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows."
~ Spanish proverb

🌱 Joy to all the #GardenersofBlueSky on this ever-so-slightly-rainy #RoseWednesday 🌹

#Bloomscrolling 🌻 #FlowerReport 🐝 #Gardening ☀️ #Zone10a

Magenta (pink?) Impatiens in the garden

“Spring is when
flowers beckon
in every corner
of your heart.”
~ Bhuwan Thapaliya

A little cooler here today on this #MagentaMonday ~ a perfect day to spend some time in the garden 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🩷 #FlowerReport 🩷 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Bunch of small yellow miniature roses on the bush in the garden

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”
~ Ruth Stout

🌱 A joyous #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow to all the delightful #GardenersOfBlueSky 🐝 #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🌻 #Gardening #Zone10a

🤬 gophers got my last bunch of lupine! I put the remnants with green pods on the stem in a gin bottle to see if they can go to seed. 🙏🏽
#zone10a

Purple Morning Glory bloom, buds, leaves, against a gray garden fence

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.”
~ Edwin Curran

Hope you get to spend a bit of time in your gardens today, all you kind Morning Glories!

#Bloomscrolling 🌱 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a #FlowerReport

Group of spring blooms (maybe primroses) -- yellow, pink, and white -- in the garden

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
~ Victor Hugo

Happy Spring, you'se guys!

#Bloomscrolling 🌱 #FlowerReport 🐝 #YellowSunday 🩷💛 #SundayYellow #Gardening ☀️ #Zone10a

Coral-colored Petunia bloom, in the garden

"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures."
~ Francis Bacon

Amen.

A happy happy 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #FridayFloral #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #Gardening #Zone10a

Three dark pink typical orchid flowers on the green foliage background.

Chinese ground #orchids, Bletilla striata. Very easy to grow here in #SFBayArea 🌱
#EastBayGarden #gardening #zone10a

Purple rose bloom, in the garden

"If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime."
~ Swedish Proverb

A very happy #PrettyPurpleThursday, my friends. Stay cool!

#Bloomscrolling 💜 #FlowerReport 🩷 #Gardening 🌱 #Zone10a 🐝

Large white rose bloom, in the garden

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
~ J.M. Barrie

A kind and lovely #RoseWednesday to all the #GardenersOfBlueSky 🤍 🌱 🤍
#Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a

Pink flowers of the Elegant Clarkia amongst its green foliage.

A backlit, green grasshopper clinging to the upright stem of a white sage plant, unbothered by geopolitics.

Clarkia have started blooming after the heat wave, and the white sage is hosting a grasshopper.
#zone10a #californianativeplants

Jacaranda bloom, fallen on the hood of a red car

"Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove."
~ Ralph Ellison

Let's see all your purple on this #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜

#Bloomscrolling 🌱 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a 🪻 #FlowerReport

Group of yellow and pink-rimmed miniature roses, rose buds, green leaves in the garden background

“In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.”
~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Anticipating a hot #RoseWednesday here in #Gardening #Zone10a 🌱

☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport 🐝

Yellow flowers growing, green leaves and garden wall in the background

"Daylight saving time is the day when we all remember how much we love a springtime evening."
~ All of us

🌱 Happy #YellowSunday ☀️ #SundayYellow on this, my favorite day of the year 🐝

#DST 🌻 #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a 💛

Morning Glory buds in the late winter garden

“When we create a garden, no matter how small or where it is in the world, we enrich the world as a whole.”
~ Bhuwan Thapaliya

Good Morning Glories!

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday 🐝 #Bloomscrolling 🌷 #FloralReport #Gardening 🌹 #Zone10a ☀️ #FloralFriday

Purple bloom, white stringy center, green leaves and light in the background

"I don't have a purple problem, I have a purple passion!
~ Jackie Harmon Sweeney

🌱 Wishing all the lovie #GardenersofBlueSky a joyous #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜 and all the purple it will bring!

🌷 #Bloomscrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport ☮️ #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Red & white striped rose bloom

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
~ Alphonse Karr

🌱 Wishing a peaceful (!) sweet #RoseWednesday🌹 to all the kind #GardenersOfBlueSky

#Bloomscrolling 🩷 #FlowerReport 🌸 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a 🌷

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

Happy #FlowersOnFriday you'all 🌱 #FloralFriday 🌸 #BloomScrolling ☀️ #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Bright purple Morning Glory bloom, hints of garden showing in the background

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

Sending all sorts of love and joy to the #GardenersOfBlueSky on this glorious 💜 #PrettyPurpleThursday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 🌷 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Pink rose blooms in the green garden

“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

🌱 A wondrous #RoseWednesday 🌹 to all you lovies!

#Bloomscrolling 🩷 #FlowerReport 🌺 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Magenta-colored blooms of Stock, in the garden

"Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks."
~ G.K. Chesterton

🌱 Wishing all you kind #GardenersOfBlueSky a magnificent, marvelous #MagentaMonday 🩷

#Bloomscrolling 🌸 #FlowerReport 🌺 #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Odd yellow flower, with white wings, in the garden filled with green leaves and such

“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”
~ Janet Kilburn Phillips

I do love the experiments!

🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow ☀️ #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Mauve rose bud pictured against garden background

“Let your imagination run wild in shades of purple.”
~ Salvador Dalí

🌱 On this cold (very, for us!) #PrettyPurpleThursday ~ I hope you get a little time in your garden.

She's purple, right?

💜 #BloomScrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 🐝 #Gardening 🌸 #Zone10a 🌹 #GardenersOfBlueSky

Yellow poppy blooms spotted with water

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

Lots of trees!

🌱 Happy #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a

Group of red and white striped miniature roses, fully bloomed, some green and purple in the garden-y background

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
~ Oscar Wilde

🌱 Wishing all'you'all the delights of today's garden #FlowersOnFriday 🌸 #Bloomscrolling ☀️ #FlowerReport #Gardening🌹 #Zone10a

Red rose bloom in the garden

"A garden is not a place: it is a passage, a passion. We don’t know where we’re going, to pass through is enough; to pass through is to remain."
~ Octavio Paz

🌱 Wishing you all a lovely #RoseWednesday🌹

#Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport ☀️ #Gardening 🌸 #Zone10a

Blue bachelor button bloom in the garden

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.”
~ Edwin Curran

🌱 On this cool #BlueMonday 🩵 I hope you'all get some moments in your garden!

#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a

cannot get over how big my garden has gotten in the last few weeks!

newest crops: sugar peas, strawberries, and mulberries 🥹

#gardening #zone10a

Monarch butterfly on pinkish plant in a very green field

"You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."
~ Ray Bradbury

🌱 Wishing you all a spectacular #FlowersOnFriday in the garden 🐝
#blooomscrolling #flowerreport #gardening #zone10a