Few things are as inviting as the spring garden after a light rain: colors are bolder, every blade of grass or the smallest bud, blossom or weed is pregnant with moisture, light is brighter and reflects on the many "diamonds" glistening, smiling, shimmering in endless hues of green, more vivid than before the rain.
Today was one of those irresistible spring days. The garden truly beckoned, bewildered, and beguiled in its amazing, magical explosive riot of beauty.
an array of early rose buds of Crimson Glory - one of the deepest red roses and certainly among the most fragrant
Years ago, we planted small flowering bushes at the end of our largest lawn, placing them (luckily) at what seemed like, at the time, a much exaggerated distance from each other. That semi-circle of bushes is a riot of blooms in this period, visible from almost every room of our house - with the forsythia and photinia now well over 18 feet tall and almost as wide!
The lilacs (the latest bloomers) and viburno are smaller but no less beautiful:
the absolutely gorgeous viburno bloom
Butterflies of many colors and designs danced around me as I walked.
a rather rare, almost waxy wildflower - always alone -never in a group
a loner - one of the most common early-blooming wildflowers which usually grows in isolated but large groups (see below). Why am I so much more attracted to the loner?
