collage created on Picmonkey.com ~ flowers photographed by ©Jaye Marie2023

Centrepiece this week is our beloved camelia, caught just before the weather does its worst. We don’t get to enjoy these special flowers for long, as they soon fade, as all camellias tend to do…

Next up is the Japanese Quince, such a brave and cheerful fellow!

My poor azalea is so old but refuses to die. It might just manage to bloom this time… it’s only been trying since Christmas!

This pink hawthorn refuses to flower, and I have no idea why. Advice on this would be most welcome!

The yellow flower is a china Capodimonte rose, a present from Anita…

The first of my bonsai to wake up every year, I always look forward to the scarlet leaves…

I think this is something called sambuca. I just love the black leaves and baby pink flowers…

The garden is waking up in leaps and bounds. If I can summon up some of my own leaps and bounds, I will be spending more time out there…


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26 responses to “#SixOnSaturday #GardeningTwitter #GardeningMakesMeHappy”

  1. I love your beautiful buds opening up in your garden!

    1. Drop by tomorrow, I’m posting those buds open!

      1. I will do that!

  2. I think your sambucus is probably Black Lace (‘Eva’) which is a common plant here. It is a good thing and has lovely pink flowers that I use to make pink elderflower cordial.

    1. I hope it does flower, as most of my plants don’t usually…

  3. How pretty to see your flowers and your plants awaking up. We’re still dealing with snow, but your photos made me happy.

    1. Glad about that, Diana, they make me happy too…

  4. your flowers are so beautiful, and they look so free too.🫶🏾

    1. A blooming miracle after the winter we had, Jude…

      1. 💖✨

  5. Do you get berries on the sambucus? I grow the local native variety, which has green leaves and lovely white flower clusters – please include a photo of the flowers when it is in bloom! I hoped the birds would like the berries, but so far, not so much.

    1. I think the berries are black, but I will post a picture!

      1. Nice! That would make sense. It is elderberry, there are a couple of cultivars with lacy leaves in green or very dark like yours. Mine is the native one , so maybe not quite as showy. I have it in a mixed hedge where I lost an old lilac that came with the house.

        1. I love a mixed hedge, we have one that has forsythia mixed in it. It looks stunning every spring…

          1. Nice, Mine is arbor vitae, bridal wreath spirea, Beauty of Moscow lilacs, elderberry, and finally, more arbor vitae, the last planted to screen the apartment building next door. The arbor vitae that I planted as a screen are still small, planted at 12″ tall in 2020. They are growing about a foot a year so far, so still not much of a screen, but coming along. The lilacs were very overgrown, spindly and I am not sure if I should replant. We shall see – they have been hard pruned, and given recommended fertilizers/amendments, so we shall see how they bloom this year. If I take them out, my husband likes the idea of new lilacs, but I am partial to native shrubs. We shall see!

            1. Mixed hedges have their problems, but still better than boring privet!

              1. True that! I might not have chosen the spirea, but it creates a dense thicket like area loved by small birds.

  6. Lovely bonsais! Did you create them yourself or did you buy them? Nicely shaped.

    1. I try my best, Fred… 🪴

  7. Love the bonsais.

    1. Acres make the best bonsai, Noelle… 🪴

  8. So lovely to see, I can almost hear the waking yams of the flowers as the return from their slumber.

    1. Always a welcome sight, Rosie…🌺

  9. Beautiful photos Jaye Marie. Love the collage. Have a great weekend My Friends.

    1. Thanks again, Goff… Enjoy your weekend too…

      1. Cheers.

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