To properly represent late May blooms in Alabama on this blog, I visited my friend Rachel a couple of weeks ago. She grows daylilies and hydrangeas, which I don’t have in my own yard.
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The guest room smells amazing today thanks to the small vase of gardenias clipped for today’s In a Vase on Monday post.
Last week, I noticed a few garden bloggers chose fun animal vases for In a Vase on Monday. This week, I follow suit.
This week, vibrant new blooms join the spring party and the Carolina snailseed is being super clingy.
I began this post with the most sensical intentions. Then my sensibilities took over.
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Jemison Park Nature Trail is one of my favorite local spots. This greenway follows Shades Creek and meanders through Mountain Brook. It’s just a hop, skip and jump away from central Birmingham.
Appreciate the little things, sometimes even weeds.
I have always loved daffodils. They are a bomb of yellow breaking through the drear of winter gray.
“No, my aunt wasn’t much of a gardener,” said the visitor.
“Oh,” I said, trying not to look disappointed.
Flame-haired and cheerful, the visitor chatting on my carport was the niece of the original owner of our 1960 home. She had popped by while driving home to Virginia from vacation in Florida. I wasn’t expecting her. I was in leggings and an old t-shirt and in the middle of laundry, but when she introduced herself I was curious to glean some house history.
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