Here is a sprinkling of spring flowers from our front garden today.
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I’m just floating in on a breeze.. one toe lightly touching down.. before I’m off again.
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I’m bringing you a wee peak of my favorite container flowers planted this spring…
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This vintage bucket of rose colored pansies is my favorite this year I think.
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I will admit to buying these wave petunias already started inside the warm greenhouse at Country Gardens Nursery.. with such a short season, they needed a bit of a head start before coming out into our cooler temperatures.. but most were planted from scratch.
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An awesome frugal find were these pretty creamy white pots… these IKEA planters come in three sizes!
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I added a few rocks to the bottom for drainage then planted tons of fragrant stock.
I plunked a container rose inside the largest bucket, that will make it easier to remove in the fall.
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Our temperatures don’t afford us the opportunity to grow this sort of rose in our garden, so they are my one splurge for my containers this year. I love reading outside on our patio with the heady fragrance from these flowers around me!
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I guess you could say my garden leans towards the old-fashioned with my love for stock, roses and pansies.. and lilacs.
Lilacs are just blooming here in Calgary, they’re so late this year! I’ve just brought a few inside and hope to take a few photos for you tomorrow.
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One large tree had apple-scab last year and we were afraid we’d lose it, but after a deep root fertilizer treatment, it has finally bloomed again this spring!
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I’m home today after a night in Banff with some of my most cherished friends.
tomorrow we watch our daughter Katie { should it be Kathryn now? } walk across the stage at the University to receive her Business Degree in Petroleum Land Management Business. As my friend says, “One down, one to go!”
We’ll be celebrating with champagne with her boyfriend’s lovely parents then dining at the River Café which is the prettiest restaurant located on an island, across a bridge from downtown.
It’s my favorite “special occasion” restaurant, because you have to walk there through the park:)
Cross your fingers we won’t get rain!
Love all the flowers and your containers are great! You are really good at decorating! 🙂 I really love your roses the best. Love their fragrance so I grow a good many myself. Have you ever tried growing Bourbon roses? They are the most fragrant rose you can buy and they are easy to grow! 🙂 Check out the fifth picture down in my post;
Michael 🙂
Spring Garden – http://michaelswoodcraft.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/spring-garden/
Always looks like a magazine. Better! What a lovely post of your Spring flowers. I especially like the close up of the pink rose.
One more day and the school year is done.
Maybe then I will have more time to catch up on blog reading and commenting.
xxoo
Very, Very nice! Can I have the last one? She/He looks oh so cute!
James
wow beautiful!!!Your pics do look like they come straight out of a magazine. There’s nothing better than beautiful colourful spring flowers, I esp love the bright pink colours. Just gorgeous!
Hi Barbara. Just love that rose, and with stocks and lilacs too I bet it smells pretty good at your place! 🙂 Hope you and your family have a wonderful day tomorrow!
What a lovely garden you have, Smidge! Love those pansies! Very, very pretty. A beautiful way to welcome spring!
I just completed our garden planting yesterday, the beauty and fragrant flowers ministering to my soul at every step — ah to feel the energy to do such things again brings waves of thankfulness.
Your pansies are so lovely and I just love the way vine type petunias drape over the containers as if to brag a little. Gorgeous roses, I can almost smell their perfume. 🙂
Sigh – everything is so beautiful! Congrats to your daughter, hope you enjoy the celebration 🙂
Your container plants and flowers are lovely and it’s such a special time when you see your child/young adult graduate and start the next phase of their life…. Diane
Such a gorgeous image of your dog. Congratulations to Katie on what sounds like a difficult and challenging degree. What a wonderful celebration that will be. I wish my uni students were like Katie – my daughter has deferred this semester and my son hasn’t graduated and has had to go back this year to ‘tie up loose ends’. Where’s the focus! Anyway…your flowers are gorgeous and it must be lovely to see so much colour after so much snow xx
Congratulations to your family Smidge. It’s a big day graduating from the university. And I just love your floral arrangements. I have no doubt your patio would be a beautiful place to unwind. The Ikea buckets were a great find too!
I hope the graduation was a lovely “rain-free” event, and I know you’re as proud as you can be of your daughter’s accomplishment! How wonderful to have that degree in hand and to be prepared for a successful future. 🙂 Your colorful garden is just beautiful and I would never know it had all been buried under tons of snow this past winter. Love the pinks, Smidge. 🙂
It was raining, but stopped enough to get in and out of the auditorium and to take photos. I find photos on a rainy day some of the most beautiful. The colors are richer and more saturated. Thanks for your thoughts on my garden.. the pots are great, but the stuff that got buried is still struggling to grow. We’ve had freezing rain for days and I wonder if I’ll get much in my garden this year! xx
The petunias and pink roses are simply gorgeous!
Thanks, Caitlin!