Spring is slowly creeping, inch by inch, upon us poor, unsuspecting gardeners. Before we know it, it will pounce and devour us in one fell swoop with its breathtaking blooms.
Slowly, o so slowly it's drawing nearer, bloom by tiny bloom.
Softly, softly it comes closer and closer
a sudden flash of colour and then
all is calm and peaceful again.
And with soft pastel colours
and lovely white bells tinkling in the breeze we are lulled to sleep.
But gardener beware! Beneath that innocent blue sky with fluffy white clouds a dragon is waiting to slay you.
It's hiding now, but soon it will rear it's fire-y head
and scorch you to a crisp.
From beneath it devours,
rip you to shreds,
devastate you with its beauty effulgent,
until there is nothing left........
copyright 2009 Y.E.W. HeuzenIn gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
Sam Llewelyn, The Sea Garden
28 comments:
Spring does look to be about ready to explode in your garden Yolanda. What beautiful little treasures you have popping up.
Oh my! How pretty! Spring is just teasing us here with the warm day, cold day, warm day dance. The poor little flowers are confused....
* Lisa: We had very mild weather this weekend (10 to 14C) and today it's sunny and mild too. Things seem to explode into bloom all of a sudden after that cold winter we've had.
* Cashbah Kitten: this is the third day that it's around 10 to 14 C but they are predicting night frosts this week too. It's not spring yet!
Yolanda .. it all looks ready to SPRING into action there .. you have made me very jealous .. but I will get over it and "I'll be BACK !" haha
Ja heerlijk, het voorjaar komt er echt aan, in elk geval wel in je tuin, en nu buiten ook een beetje.
I really enjoyed this post. You had me going the whole way through. My mind creeped along with yours as you revealed bloom after bloom. So beautiful.~~Dee
Hi YE, Fun post...you do have a few beauties popping up! Spring does creep along and then all at once everything seems to be in bloom! gail
It was very warm here for two days and that seduced four different crocuses into bloom. Yippieh!
Such beautiful signs of spring in your garden Yolanda!
The wisteria is breathtaking. I can imagine how much you must look forward to it bursting into bloom.
Es ist doch immer wieder herrlich, wenn der Garten im Frühling wieder aus dem Winterschlaf erwacht. Dieses Jahr hat es endlos lange gedauert bis die ersten Schneeglöckchen zu sehen waren und wenn es jetzt nicht mehr so richtig kalt wird, können wir den Blüten beim wachsen richtig zusehen!
Eine Frage noch: Du hast doch auch so einen Rhabarbertopf wie Anita ihn hat. Weißt du zufällig noch die Adresse des Händlers und kannst sie mir bitte mal zukommen lassen?
LG Lis
Yay! Spring is coming to the Bliss neighborhood! I love your hellebores -- thank you for sharing their beauty.
What is beautiful about Spring is the beauty which initially comes as a sustained release, followed by a deluge, and finally, a mass grave of all the spring blooms.
It is a crouching spring and hidden bloom at Bliss, while at Indiagarden it is almost a creeping away spring and hidden scorching summer gloom!
Ops, Spring IS in Holland already! We just had a little glimpse of it last Saturday. Now it's going to continue to be winter... But once, we'll have it here too ;-) !!
Enjoy all your lovely Spring blooms!
Barbara
I love your header picture - too cute for words.
Very good title for this post Yolanda! it made me smile before I even read the post. :)
The signs of spring in your garden are lovely
K
It's so lovely when the spring flowers are almost bursting! There's anticipation in the air...
Katarina
Absolute poetry! And it's all true!
Cindy
As you say Yolanda spring is slowly creeping in and oh what a time of expectation before it takes off at great speed :)
I'm trying to stop myself taking the warmer weather for granted. It's tempting to bring slightly tender plants out of the greenhouse. I must be strong!
I happy to see that spring is around the corner in your garden
Spring has arrived for you. Isn't it amazing how quickly in progresses once it truly begins.
I love the first signs of spring! I thought we might soon see something here, but today, it all got covered up by 8 inches of snow! So, we wait another few weeks. Sigh...
Your pictures gave me the fix I needed, though =)
That one certainly is a beauty!
Can't wait to see the other come in bloom and spread his or her beauty around!
Hopefully soon I will visit the Helleboregarden again and will blog about it then, there are only 5 plants bloming now, so I still have to be patient.
How is your Hamamelis doing?
Has it the fragance it promised?
Yes, one really needs to crouch down to see some spring blooms up close! :)
I want to be overwhelmed & consumed!
Hi YE, oh so slowly, creeping and twisting, spring is coiling here too. We are more than ready. I thought for sure you were going to show a crouching kitty hiding in the beauties, ready to pounce.
Frances
One must tiptoe through the tulips in order to let sleeping snapdragons lie! Loved seeing your flowers coming along ~ your countdown to Spring is finally within reach. Great title!
ok, i'm new to this blog, but am i the only one wondering about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer joke here? i thought perhaps it was just coincidence, until i got to "effulgent."
you're just won over a regular reader, yolanda. lovely pics, thanks!
That's exactly what happens, and at a miraculous speed, actually!
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