It's still winter here in the Midwest, and as I long for spring I've looked through and posted some lovely pinks from the springs of 2010, 2011, and 2012. I had fun looking through my garden photo archives (much better than looking out at the brown and white outside my window).
Spring cannot come soon enough!
Abundant blooms on a flowering crabapple tree
Magnificent Magnolia (in someone else's yard)
I just love rhododendrons and azaleas.
Flowering almond
I love Virginia bluebells. Notice the blooms begin as pink.
One of several creeping phlox in my garden
A delicately colored hellebore
Columbine
"Surely, if you are privileged to own a plot of earth, it's your duty both to God and man, to make it beautiful." ~ Beverly Nichols
Linking to Fertilizer Friday, Open House, and Home and Garden Thursday
34 comments:
All of the flowers are beautiful Beth! Nice memories I'm sure:@)
Pretty pictures, Beth!!
It is 2 degrees here this morning!!
Joe does cook but only certain things but I am thankful for that!! LOL!!
Have a great day and thanks so much for your visit!!
Hugs,
Debbie
WOW Beth ..Your picture are simply enchanting ... The peony gives me hope( ha Ha)..I miss my garden flowers...but your picture are providing such a lovely inspiration ..Thank You for sharing...xoxoxox
Loved this reflections of former springs.....I agree, winter is difficult for garden lovers!
The array of pink blossoms and flowers are gorgeous! It's 15 degrees in Michigan today, with a dusting of snow during the night - so your blog post with the promise of Spring is most welcome! Even though I'm not a gardener, I love visiting your blog and seeing your garden. Your garden is awesome!
Hi Beth, I too long for some flowering beauty. I hope you're staying warm up your way, here outside of Kansas City it's been quite cold. hugs ~lynne ~
Happy Thursday Beth, Girl you've got my heart pining for planting and spring flowers. Our plants won't show their faces until May and I won't plant until Memorial Day,for fear of frost. Thanks for sharing.
Hugs, Noreen
You have lots of pretty color to look forward to. We are being hit by snow now so Spring is feeling still far away to me.
Cher Sunray Gardens
Oh spring pink is such a fav of mine...I love the VA bluebells as you can see from my post. I really want my own ladyslipper!
Gorgeous Beth! You are the most talented of gardeners. It's hard to imagine it with the bitter cold temps we are having, so can't wait though.
Happy Weekend,
Cindy
So many bloggers are pining for spring. You make it impossible not to after seeing all these pretty blooms Beth.
Hugs,
Judith
Hi Beth! Oh those flowers are all so beautiful. It is hard to garden without a lot of effort where we live (La Pine OR), and I always enjoy seeing flowers like yours and remember the good old days when I could do the same.
Thank you so much for your visit.
Kathy M.
Beautiful photos! We have ice here today, but thanks to your photos, I can "see" spring in the future.
what lovely spring flowers! if you like join us at weekend flowers :)
Wonderful pictures. I love Crabapple trees. I think they like to dress up for Easter. Hopefully this colder winter will mean cooler summer than last year, and if we're real lucky, a wet spring! Thanks for sharing.
Seeing these pictures make me excited for spring!
Your pictures are just lovely. I miss having some of those flowers here in Florida. Nice to see images of them.
Beth:
I left a comment earlier in the week but just seeing the ladyslipper again has caused me to deja vu -
When I was in 7th grade my parents moved to the country and I was most unhappy and bored. My mother gave me my own "flower bed" to try to entertain me. I dug up many lady slippers in the woods - of course they did not transplant from the woods into the sun. I did manage to move the violets though!
Hi Beth,
Oh, how I long for springtime too! It cannot come soon enough for me. Your flowers are just gorgeous and I can almost smell them. The sweet Lady's Slipper is our provincial flower here on the Island. We have mostly pink ones but there are white ones too. My son sees them often when he's out and about the woods with his classes. Have a lovely weekend, my friend.
Blessings,
Sandi
Beautiful flowers!
Beautiful images of Spring flowers. It's nice to be able to think ahead to the coming of Spring and the gorgeous flowers,
Oh! Thank you for these beautiful pictures, Beth! We, too, are so eager for spring's arrival! :)
They'll be back so very soon. Earliest magnolias were blooming in town today when I was there. There's a M. stellata here with scattered blooms, trying out the warm spell, but the Saucer magnolias know better.
I've been doing the same thing...looking through my garden pictures.
Oh what pretty flowers you have...especially the last photo.
Jan ♥
We are under 4 inches of white snow from a g orgeous s now storm yesterday......your post came at a very good time - just to dream about spring and it's abundant beauty. Those photos are just what I needed as I sip a hot cuppa tea and blog surf.
Thank you for the beauty, Beth!!
Have a great weekend.
Thank you Soooo much for the breath of spring. I am huddled in front of my wood stove and CAN'T wait for spring. Thanks for visiting me. Love, Linda
PS New follower.
The lady slipper and the bluebells drew the biggest 'ahhs' from me this morning. All the pictures were gorgeous, hard to choose favorites. Thank you for the breath of Spring on this gray, cold day. I feel invigorated now!
I love pink in the garden and in my house too.
Thank you for images of Spring! I agree with you about wishing it would hurry up. I've never seen those Virginia Bluebells before. Very interesting flowers.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and for your very generous and kind comments.
~Elizabeth
Hi Beth,
all your pretty flowers made my heart sing.........thinking of spring now.
So how ya been girly?? Hope all is well at your house.
Blessings, Nellie
damn that's pretty! I miss spring!
Thank you for linking in this week again..I am always so happy to see my friends letting their gardens and hard work shine!
I hope you will link in again soon!
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These colors are gorgeous Beth! Would you believe a magnolia such as you've pictured is blooming NOW here in our corner of Georgia! Tooo soon! I appreciate you sharing your lovely post with Home and Garden Thursday,
Kathy
Thanks for posting the wonderful blooms. I am so longing for spring! I hope my Virginia bluebells clump comes up for its third season, and is a bit larger than last year.
Gorgeous images with such beautiful flowers! Hope winter is over soon for all of you my friends, so you can have the gorgeous flowers back in your gardens. Thanks for your lovely and kind comments.
FABBY
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