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

Pink miniature rose bloom

“Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.”
~ Rita Moreno

🌱 Happy #RoseWednesday you'all!

#Bloomscrolling 🩷 #FlowerReport 🌹 #Gardening 🌸 #Zone10a

Magenta Petunia

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
~ John Ruskin

🌱 Hope the weather where you are on #MagentaMonday is your kind of good!

#Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Zone10a

Yellow and orange striped Nasturtium blooms, bee deep into one of the blooms, gray wall in background

"I'm so tired of being tired
Sure as night will follow day
Most things I worry 'bout
Never happen anyway"
~ Tom Petty's "Crawling Back to You"

Good morning, kind gardening friends!

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