Here’s what’s blooming in my garden right now…

Lilac Atheline Wilbur

Lilac Krasavitsa Moskvy (Beauty of Moscow)

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Tree Peony Shimadaijin

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Pink Dogwood

The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven –
All’s right with the world!

-Robert Browning

Virginia Bluebells

Well-apparell’d April on the heel
Of limping winter treads…

-William Shakespeare

Daphne Carol Mackie

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Phlox Sherwood Purple

“I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun… “– Heinrich Heine

Azalea