Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
I love flowers! Spring and Summer are special because of all the wonderful
blossom that are available to bring inside or enjoy outside. How can you not
help but feel happy when you look at a flower blooming!
Come join me and I will share some of the
flowers that are making me "happy" around my house!
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| Outside my front door |
Jim Carrey
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| I love geraniums |
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| Can you smell the gardenias?
I perhaps owe having become a painter to
flowers.
Claude Monet
These were blooming by the mailbox.
 (Anslee, I love my vase you gave me) Emma Goldman  Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
Maurice Maeterlinck
 God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. Author Unknown    
Orchids like to breath. They need a pot like this with good air flow.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of
flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Flower Pots are so much more appealing to the eye, if they have
mixed plantings.
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of
perspiration.
Lou Erickson
This little fellow stays busy clipping herbs.
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get
tomatoes.
Author Unknown
Johnny found this unusual hummingbird feeder. It sits
in a plant I got several years ago in Mt. Brook, Al.
It is called a hummingbird plant and reseeds itself each year.
Gardens are a form of autobiography.
Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine
I bought these succulents this year when I went to Mount Brook, Al. for
the decorator showhouse. Showhouse blog post They are planted in
an old birdbath.
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Ruth Brown
Mr Tortoise is slow and lazy. Kinda like I am when it is in the 90's!
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's
always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger
desires.
Marclene Cox
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This pot of fern and pot of herbs both made it through our mild winters of
the past few years.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of
quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Remember the gardenia bush earlier in this post? Well here is where
they went after they were picked!
I hope you have enjoyed my home and garden tour!
What can you find to pick outside
to bring in?
