I love that song from Alice in Wonderland. I've been obsessed with flowers lately, plucking blooms as soon as they pop open just so I can have them in the house where we all can enjoy them. I wasn't too happy the other night when I was taking in the glorious smell of the "Queen of Sweden" old English rose and looked down at the bloom to see teeny, tiny little red bugs on it. Just a few, but I'm afraid I inhaled that few. I sneezed right away, so all was well. Still yucky though!
Some flowers I'm throwing myself at are:
- All of my different colors/ flavors of the old English rose rainbow I got from www.davidaustenroses.com - Queen of Sweden, A Shropshire Lad, Benjamin Britten, Cinco de Mayo, Alnwick rose...
- Bouganvilleas! How beautiful are they arching over a seaward-facing terrace?? Oh, I can't wait to get myself to Greece!
- Poppies! If Afghanistan wasn't so scary and the flowers weren't grown strictly for dubious opium, I'd gladly run through a field full of them, wicked witch or no!
- Lilacs...glorious lilacs. Someone quickly point me in the direction of a botanist to hybridize these bushes to bloom season-round in the summer!
- Hydrangeas - My old love. I love how you can change the color of these from year to year - blue, pink, purple, I think that's it...The only downside is that they're poisonous to children.
May you travel safely through the fields of flowers unscathed from the stings of bees, wasps and without little red bugs...We're off to meet my beautiful new niece, Siena (previously misspelled!).
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