Fall flower boxes on Nantucket.

 

The late October weather on the island has

Visiting a field of sunflowers.

Sunflowers make

Tiny flowers.

Every spring we are

The off-season amaryllis.

We typically see the amaryllis around the holidays.  This one has bloomed three months late, but perhaps it's fate!  At a time when we need some cheering up, the additional color makes me smile.

Charleston Part I - the flower boxes.

The flower boxes in Charleston are

Wicked Tulips Flower Farm; Johnston, Rhode Island

If you're in need of

It's Spring so Let's Peruse the Seed Catalogues!

Park Seed Company,  Michigan Bulb Company, Henry Fields, Territorial Seed Company, Schrieners and Stark Bros. are catalogs shown here.

Despite the fact that Spring is officially here, we woke up to below freezing temperatures and a layer of snow and ice!  It seemed like the perfect day to sit down with my accumulated seed catalogs and place a few orders. 

The Boston Flower & Garden Show

On Tuesday I had the kitchen window open while cleaning the house.  It was fifty-four degrees out and the fresh air was wonderful!  So two short days later I can't believe I'm saying this......it's snowing again!  That's why I'm so grateful we made the trek to Boston yesterday to visit the 2014 Boston Flower & Garden Show. 

Happy Valentine's Day

My husband sent these to me today; beautiful.

Romance

by Edgar Allan Poe

Romance, who loves to nod and sing, 

With drowsy head and folded wing. 

Among the green leaves as they shake

Far down within some shadowy lake,

To me a painted paroquet

Hath been - a most familiar bird -

Taught me my alphabet to say,

To lisp my very earliest word,

While in the wild wood I did lie,

A child - with a most knowing eye.

Of late, eternal condor years

So shake the very heaven on high

With tumult as they thunder by,

I have no time for idle cares

Through gazing on the unquiet sky.

And when an hour with calmer wings

Its down upon my spirit flings -

That little time with lyre and rhyme

To while away - forbidden things!

My heart would feel to be a crime

Unless it trembled with the strings.

Happy Valentine's Day!