Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Life and Language of Flowers

I have recently started a series of florals with the idea of what these flowers could say - if they could talk. If your favorite flower could communicate with you, what do you think it would say? What kind of personality would it have?
Some people say that Florida doesn't have "real" seasons and I thought that too when I first came her almost three decades ago. But the seasons are just alive here as they are in the rest of the county. We just never have to shovel snow! All the better, right? Here in North Florida, the seasons are very pronounced. Every year we have been in this part of Florida, we have experienced many nights in the upper 20s. We have even occasionally had to scrape a little frost of the windshields in the early mornings! However Spring truly does come early and it gets really warm really quickly. I am so glad for that!
All that being said, we still don't see many Jonquils here in the Spring. Some local gardeners are pretty successful in getting them to bloom and keeping the bulbs safe from the long, hot Summers but usually Jonquils in Florida are seen at the commercial and public gardens. I have often thought about trying to keep some in a pot and might yet try that. For now, here is my Jonquil...


 And the following one is one I completed a few years ago...


Spring has finally sprung around most of the country and these "beautiful blondes" will be shaking their bold heads around everywhere! I would love to see pictures of the jonquils, daffodils, and narcissus in your garden!

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