It isn't spring without the sweet scent of lilacs wafting through the house. I think the scent may be my favorite of all the flowers. Honeysuckle is another one I love. Which flower has your favorite scent?
I have been on the road quite a bit this past week to go traipsing through greenhouses looking for flowers to fill my pots. Oh, the scents, the colors...I just wanted to buy several of everything I saw!
This photo is from my last (I hope) shopping trip for flowers. It takes quite a few to fill all the pots on the front porch and back patio. As long as I can still get them planted and watered, we will have flowers!
I didn't mean to be away so long from blogland. But I love to get out and about and just enjoy the beauty of spring and the weather has been absolutely gorgeous. It has been warm enough to open windows. Until now. It has rained...which we really needed...and turned cooler again. The weekend sounds like it will be very nice.
Happy Friday to you!
xo Cheryl
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ReplyDeleteI remember the days when I planted and watered, a zillion flowers too! There is such satisfaction in it. Enjoy every bloom. I love the smell of lilacs too. Fragrant and sweet.
ReplyDeleteYou are just right to get put and about in the fresh air and those flowers you purchased are gorgeous
ReplyDeletea load o' blooms! i miss lilacs...
ReplyDeleteWe have no lilacs in this part of North Carolina. My sister-in-law brought a bush back from a trip to Michigan some years ago, and it did well. Love the flower photos. I finished my planting the other day, mostly marigolds and herbs.
ReplyDeletei love the trunk full of flowers.. and my favorite flower smell is night blooming jasmine but honeysuckle is a tie. i love both. have never smelled lilacs.
ReplyDeleteOh, lilacs are my favourite. We once lived where there was a whole long hedge of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous that you can put your flowers out already and it is hard to just pick a few! You have a beautiful array of colour there, Cheryl.
How beautiful. I love lilacs :)!!! I have a friend with lilacs and I'm going to go by her house tomorrow and bring some home with me! They smell SO GOOD!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely trunk full. Happy planting. I love Honeysuckle also but my favorite scent is not a flower but orange blossoms. I miss them so.
ReplyDeleteCheryl, So glad you are enjoying your lovely spring. You will be busy planting flowers. They will be wonderful too. I have lilacs on the bush that I got the starts for , from my mom's lilacs when she was with us. I think she is smiling looking at them. The people that bought her old house tore all those beautiful lilacs out. Sad. Blessings, xoxo, Susie
ReplyDeleteBet your yard and home are going to look gorgeous with all of the beautiful flowers you have purchased to plant. Except for Pansies, we plant perennials --hoping they will come back year after year.
ReplyDeleteI love lilacs (love the aroma also) --but that is one plant we do not have here. NO MORE ROOM for more things in our yard... ha ha
Happy Gardening.
Hugs,
Betsy
Every summer I promise to plant a lilac bush...could this be the year? Gorgeous!
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I can almost smell the flowers- I imagine your yard and porch will be blooming for quite some time.
ReplyDeleteGoing to buy and then plant flowers in pots brings back memories of the years I did that in VA. It was fun and the resulting blooms were well worth the reauired effort. Now, we don't have to be concerned with outdoor gardening, although when we return to the VA house in June, I will do some gardening cleanup.
ReplyDeleteI love the scent of Lilacs which remind me of my growing up years. We had long rows of Lilacs around the yard. I am waiting for the right time to get flowers as well,but it may have to wait a few weeks yet.
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