Alstroemeria (Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas), is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alstroemeriaceae. Natives to South America (primarily Brazil and Chile), some have become naturalized in the United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Madeira and the Canary Islands. They are summer growing, long-lived perennials, and the honey bees can’t get enough…
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#flowers #california #garden #plantingforpollinators #headfirst (at At Home in Napa)
Allium flowers.
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#flowers #summerhappiness #allium (at At Home in Napa)
My wife came home from @hudson.g.g with the most wonderful allium flowers!
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#flowers #summerhappiness #allium (at At Home in Napa)
Trumpet vines always tug at my heart.
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#spain #mallorca #flowers #trumpetflower (at Deyá, Islas Baleares, Spain)
African iris (Dietes bicolor) also known as Butterfly Flag, is a native of South Africa. A fortnight lily, the plant flowers from spring through fall.
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#garden #flowers #blooms (at At Home in Napa)
Zantedeschia aethiopica (known as calla lily and arum lily) is a species in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland.
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#garden #flowers #callalily #springincalifornia (at At Home in Napa)
Exorbitant
dollars spent
inexorably
bringing outside
in,
perfuming days
the grey of a hastily erased
chalkboard.
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White tulips tight and virginal
heave and drape
at the mildest suggestion
of heat;
trembling cherry blossoms
their fleeting beauty
a wake-up call to consciousness;
quince blossoms
begging contemplation
of life’s potentials
bitter as the fruit
gossamer as the flower;
a magnolia branch
tall, isolated
pilfered
from an abandoned lot
its leaves as magnanimous
as its bear paw of a flower.
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Tinkling gutters
keep seasonal time
the delighted screech
of drenched birds,
glistening citrus
the soggy longing of
the camellia flower
enveloped in winter.
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#winter #flowers #tulips #winterincalifornia
(at At Home in Napa)
“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way.”
-Marianne Williamson
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#tulips #flowers #uniquefootprint #useyourvoice @mariannewilliamson (at At Home in Napa)
Peony.
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#flowers #dailyblooms #peony
Fading beauty.
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#flowers #amaryllis #blooming #myideaofchristmas (at At Home in Napa)
I’m always hesitant
to lay down the dollars
required
to purchase a peony,
fearing
she won’t reveal herself as fully,
her perfume not as enticing,
her petals not as gossamer
as in my memory.
Fears unfounded.
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#flowers #peony #beautyunfolding (at At Home in Napa)
One final, perfect, mutant Canna flower, a beauteous last gasp before winter.
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#garden #nature #beauty #flowers (at At Home in Napa)
Calendula.
#nofilter #garden #plantsforbees #flowers (at At Home in Napa)
Summer blooms.
#california #sonoma #summer #flowers (at Healdsburg SHED)
“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
#roses #flowers #eleanorroosevelt (at Napa, California)
Rosa Mr. Lincoln, a hybrid tea rose, whose perfume evokes imaginary childhood.
#earthday #roses #flowers #plants (at At Home in Napa)
Parrot tulip.
#tulips #flowers #botanical #springblossoms (at At Home in Napa)
A blast of color on a gray, wet February Monday.
#dailyblooms #flowers #monkeyflower (at At Home in Napa)
Calla lily.
#california #dailyblooms #flowers