Group of coral and cream-ish-colored rose blooms and buds
“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Hoping for you, a bit of peace on this #RoseWednesday ~ and perhaps a little time in your garden 🌱
#Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a 🌹 #GardenersofBlueSky
Yellow Dahlia bloom, dotted with some water drops, in the garden
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.”
~ William Carlos Williams
A oh-so-happy #SundayYellow 🌱 #YellowSunday to all the wondrous #GardenersofBlueSky 💛
#Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a
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
