After weeks of delightful warm weather, spring arrived cold, damp, and gray. My spirits, however, are buoyed by the flowers showing and growing in the garden. It’s Monday and time once again for In a Vase on Monday, hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
This is our first good look at tulips, and I couldn’t resist just one more look at the camellias.
Please visit Cathy to see what she has in a vase from her garden this week.
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About johnvic8
John Viccellio retired after 24 years in the U. S. Navy and began to dig into gardening when he could finally land in one place. He completed the Master Gardener course in 1992 and has since designed and constructed two of his own gardens. He wrote a monthly garden column for ten years and was a regular contributor to Carolina Gardener magazine. John published his first book, Guess What's in My Garden!, in 2014.
He lives in a retirement community in Matthews, NC.
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Look at those beautiful pastels especially the pink tulips, ahhh! Spring is here!!
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Thanks, Donna. I’m sure you will be catching up with us “down southers” in no time.
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What beautiful photos for the first week of spring! 🙂
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Thanks, Amy. It’s my first try with tulips in this garden, and so far I like what I see.
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Yes, the pale sugary shades are stunning – I hope the tulips do well for you this season and in future years, John
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Sugary. I hadn’t thought of that. How appropriate. I will have to remember that word for the future. Thanks, Cathy.
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The tulips and camellias complement each other beautifully.
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Your kind comment is much appreciated, Kris.
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Beautiful flowers. That darker tulip is nice for variety.
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Thank you, Susie. I wish I hadn’t lost the tag on the darker one. The lighter is ‘Angelique.’
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Mmm! Delicious.
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I love the combination of pinks and purples, but tulips are always lovely whatever colour! I suspect the Camellia will be going over now, so bringing in some final blooms to enjoy is a must.
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Those are happy combos for me as well. You are right about the camellias; the pink one is over but the white one still has a number of buds.
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after some time i had forgotten my love for flowers, these are glorious !
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I hope they bring wonderful memories of lovely flowers to your mine.
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They really do, i used to do alot of gardening as a kid and i loved drawing but would only draw flowers but as life goes on things get crazy and we lose pieces of ourselves!
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