April Bloom Day

So much is blooming in the garden there is more than I can possibly show.  I thought I would focus on just a single flower, one of the Hippeastrum hybrids, which do beautifully here, outside, in the ground.  Hippeastrums:  they are not just cheap Christmas presents any more! 

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Oh beauty!  Turn towards me,
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reveal your luminous face!  Your wide green eyes,
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all your many aspects,
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all your whims and 
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all your secrets!
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Many thanks to May Dreams Gardens for this delightful meme!

Comments

  1. Your photos are a poem by themselves. Lovely. It must be wonderful to see these blooming outside!

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  2. Lovely bloom. Wish we could grow them in the garden. We have to grow them in pots indoors. Not the same effect at all.

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  3. Though they are hardy here as well, I have never been able to coax one into bloom.

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  4. Beautiful photos! My Hppeastrum were devoured by the snails!

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  5. Puzzling, Les. You would think if they can survive, they would bloom.

    Dorothy, I guess that is the one and only good thing about rats in our neighborhood--they love snails and slugs, and have wiped them out. Definite mixed blessing there...

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  6. Beautiful photos! What sort of camera do you use?

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  7. Can you add an email subscription option so I can follow your posts by email? Love your blog!

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  8. Starbreeze, I added email subscription option per your request...I think. I hope I did it right and that it actually works!

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  9. Dustin, I visited your blog and wanted to complement you on a honey of an apiary, but comments didn't work for me. Your bee-home is sweet!

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