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Delightful columbines

Last year I planted some hybrid columbines (Aquilegia) in my garden. They didn’t really do much last year. Oh they produced a few flowers, but nothing hinted at how delightfully gorgeous they would be this year when they bloomed!

They came up in clumps, thick with these beautiful rose pink flowers. Aren’t they just gorgeous? I want to cut some and put them in a vase, but I don’t think they’d last long that way. However, in the ground they seem to be lasting forever. They’ve already been blooming for about two weeks and there’s no sign of them stopping any time soon.

Pasque flower

It’s such a shame that these lovely delicate blooms only flower for approximately one week each spring. I love their delicate flower and fuzzy leaves.

I have a couple of Pasque flower plants and each produce only one or two flowers in Mid May. Once the weather starts to warm the blooms fade and the plants die down as if they were never there, only to return again each spring.

Just starting to bloom

I took this photo of pink hyacinths in my garden as they were just starting to bloom about three weeks ago. Unfortunately the flowers are long gone now.

The weather is finally starting to warm up here in Toronto and the rest of my flowers – ones that bloom most of the summer season, all have buds on them and they will begin to bloom shortly. I can’t wait. It’s a beautiful time of year.

A tulip with fringed petals

This is a hybrid tulip called Texas Flame. It’s also a fringed tulip – not the fringes on each petal? It’s quite lovely even when partially closed as in this photo. When the flower opens you can see an array of yellows, orange and red colors on the inner petals.

It’s just lovely.

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