Waiting for Roses...

With this crazy year we have had in the Northwest....

 

I am still waiting on my first Roses blooms

 of the year...

 

 

I check each day,

full of anticipation...

 



 

this Gertrude Jekyll

is so close...

 

so close when I bury my nose up against this bud

I can get a faint whiff

of what is to come...

 

ahhhh

 



 

we have suddenly had a heat wave,

our cold wet days

became a long dry spell,

the temperature soared into the mid eighties...

 

and the blooms,

withered so quickly on this Weigela...

 

the Pink-a-Boo

has just begun to Peek :-)

 

 

I love pairing these small sweet blooms

with roses....

 



the current show stoppers

are the Columbines....

 



 

there are so many varieties...

 

I love everything about them,

their soft pastel colors,

the layered petals...

that will forever make me think

 of a flouncy ballerinas skirt...

 

graceful

 

the Dutch Iris...

 



 

Sweet Rocket...

 

which always reminds me to take a trip into the hills

where it grows wild and abundant...

 



 

I have been working on removing

my raised vegetable garden beds...

 

this patch of self seeded chives,

I have left be for now

 just to enjoy its beauty...

 

 

waiting patiently,

or at least I am trying to....

 

Have a Beautiful Day....