Springtime Awakenings!

15 Apr '06 2:11 am

This morning, looking at these tiny, little creatures, I was wondering, howcome they have the immense power to uplift us to...the Seventh Sky, just out of their vibrant colours and adorable forms...

15 Apr '06 11:30 pm

What lovely pics, Liza! I have so few of those delicate spring bulbs and flowers. You make me wish spring here was a soft and gentle season, but it is often the harshest, dry and hot after a dry and cold winter!

16 Apr '06 12:36 am

...I'm sure you are surrounded by a huge variety of adorable wild flowers every Spring. Because, in some parts of Greece (Northern) the climate is very much like the one you describe, but the wild flowers have a...feast up there every Spring...

16 Apr '06 5:33 pm

Liza your pictures are so beautiful! Spring is so fresh, and the colours are full of new energy. But it couldn't be spring all year round. I'm so glad that we have different seasons to look forward, and backward to! Thanks for sharing.

16 Apr '06 8:11 pm

So lovely Liza.
I bet you have been so looking forward to seeing all your Springtime treasures. Pansies and violas,Daffodils & I probably should know this but what is the Red Flower,Is it a bulb? What a beautiful colour & shape.
Goose

17 Apr '06 10:04 am

Yes, it's true, Goose,

Like all of us gardeners, I wait for Spring, not only because for the awakening and glory of our colourful gardens, but for my own sort of rebirth ...With every new little leaf on the trees, on the plants, I rejoice! Listening to the bird songs very early in the morning, is another Springtime present from above...Ah! Springtime is our own rebirth, too , till we stop to exist "down here"....And ,yes, like Moosey says, I love this circle of the seasons. Because one feels this rebirth even stronger!

And the red little darlings are a short variety of tulips (30cm), blooming first every Spring, before their big, tall, red cousins (: I have the Darwin variety/60cm). Here they are, shot especially for you, with some more awakenings:

21 Apr '06 8:11 am

How very very beautiful those spring flowers look, to my autumn-leaves-changing-colour eyes! It's the blues and the yellows that look so amazingly clear and fresh. I am always amazed by the different diagonal seasons we have! Thanks for these brilliant pictures! Autumn colours are much more mellow!

21 Apr '06 4:19 pm

Wow!..wow!..my dear Liza! your flowers are sooooo beautiful!! crisp and fresh! ( Smile

so this is what spring looks like) For some minutes, I was breathless, yeah - in seventh heaven! slowly admiring your beauties one by one, enjoying every detail: their radiance, vibrant colours, shapes, sizes, leaves, their 'neighbours' and surroundings, etc. ( Wink

now you know why I can spend hours in Moosey's garden, even CottageGarden's diary/websites can mesmerise me!)

And to think I nearly missed this beautiful sharing of yours, if not for Moosey's post today (thanks, Moosey!) Rolling Eyes

I must learn how to fine-tune my wandering, so I don't miss any post in this great website!

Thanks for sharing, my dear Liza! It's a great treat!

Just a suggestion though, it'll be an added bonus for those who're still 'crawling' like me if the plants posted are named too if possible. So far, I've managed to recognize daffodils, but not pansies and violas which I've seen in Moosey's garden but can't remember now Embarassed

Help us grow too, okay?

Thanks again, dear Liza.

21 Apr '06 4:56 pm

Jacqueline, The plants that Liza can grow in her spring garden are totally like the ones I grow in mine - I suspect our climates and seasons are the same. I love seeing spring flowers when I'm burning autumn rubbish and trimming back my hostas and collectng the firewood for the winter to come!

You are right regardng the names, though. We take pansies etc. completely for granted, they are like pretty almost-weeds, and we expect everyone else to spot them! Oops!

In one of Liza's photos she has some - aubretia? which is purpley blue, like a little carpet along the edge, for her spring bulbs to pop out of. Beautiful!
Cheers

22 Apr '06 2:42 am

You have not only inspired me - you have cost me money! Yesterday I had to go into town and bought eight packets of spring bulbs which were NOT part of this month's budget! THey include mainly South African bulbs that I know will settle down (mostly) and thrive: Ixias, Sporaxis, another almost like them I can not now recall, as well as McCaen Anemones - the single ones - some of which survive a few years if I am lucky. THen I bought yellow and orange renunculas which I adore. I looked longingly at some dafs, but I know they are unlikely to survive more than two seasons, and they are rather expensive - and as for tulips we hardly ever see them in South Africa - it is simply too hot by the time they bloom - if you get them that far, the flowers last two days, and we only ever see basic strawberry pink, yellow and white. I do want to still get hold of some species tulips "one day when I am home to look after them"

Thank you for your pics - my favourite is the tulips and the promise of summer in the beautifully pruned roses and sprouting hydrangeas in the background. Oh, and then I had, but eventually lost, some straggling (struggling?) aubrietias a few years back...

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