Hibiscus & spring flowers, indoor container garden

 Took some snapshots of little flowering things around my house...

Rainy day tulip flower spring garden

Of all my tulip varieties, I love these little red stripey numbers. They are nature's eye candy! 

After a rainy afternoon, I made sure to snap some photos of these tulips where they glisten in the garden. 

I also snapped a photo of this beautiful flower I found by the creek. This wild flower was growing in sandy soil. My grandma called it a blue bell when I showed her the picture. 

As you think about your beautiful flowering Spring garden, and are mesmerized by your bounty of the veggie garden; and as you're studying your plants and tending to them-- also tend to your community-- pay attention to what is affecting you and your neighbors. There is much that is going on in everyone's community where we can actively help and be a good steward to others...

Vibrant pink peach & sowing cold hardy crops

The cold nights brightened the peach tree blooms. The petals were a light pink, turned fuchsia. These magnificent blooms are hanging on by a thread, as the limb has broken off almost completely from the tree.

On this Wednesday of early April, it was almost 90 degrees here in Kentucky. For this time of year it was quite hot. I took advantage of the pretty and sowed more Spinach seed, radish, turnip, rutabaga, lettuce, arugula, kale, leeks, parsley, basil, beets, and collard seed! I planted the seeds across 4 garden beds. I have more garden beds to plant in, but I'm not sure what to sow or transplant in those yet.

Here are turnip plants flowering, as they turn into Spring. They grew throughout the fall and winter months, mostly recoiling, but making a come back in these warm days. 

Other plants flowering in the garden are kale and soon to be cilantro, swiss chard, arugula and radish, as these plants have also are grown throughout the fall and winter months. I love when veggie plants flower, because that means they will go to seed and I can collect the seed for future sowing!...And, as we know, tending to a garden is to believe in a future...

Tulip, Spring Flower Garden & fruit trees

This Spring, find your hope and treasure it. I have hope when I see the fruit trees in bloom. You see with me in the photo below, the peach tree split over the winter, and yet, it still persists. It has gorgeous little pink blossoms. 

Amongst the flowering trees, the tulip garden is in full swing. 

Here, the plum blooms white like a big cloud in the sky.

Similar to the Plum, the pear trees are blooming.

At my job, this beautiful pear is also showing off...

Over the last 2 days, I planted almost 10 rows of potatoes; and sowed radish and spinach seed. Slowly, but surely, I am getting some things in the ground!