“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…” — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” –said Lady Bird Johnson
Along our deserted main downtown area in Qualicum Beach.
“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” — Edwin Curran
A little something blooming in my yard, offered to you:
Duchess of Edinburgh clematis
Point Defiance Rhododendron
Possibly Lem’s Monarch Rhododendron
A lovely and vigorous ground cover (still seeking identification)
as yet unidentified
Coral Bells “Marmalade”
Cherry Cream Cheese Rhododendron
such exquisite captures of each of these
Your unidentified ground cover reminds me of lobelia – although I am used to seeing that in containers or pots around here, and not in the ground. Doesn’t show up every year at the garden centers, either. I do love the intense blue-purple shades but haven’t had much luck keeping it going so I just admire it when I see it, now.