Hyacinth, Blooms in early Spring, Smells Great

This beautiful flower blooms annually, and that means, that if they are successful the first time around, if everything goes right, they should bloom again, the following year.  Many flowers are annuals,why not plant annuals?  So you don't have to go and buy more seeds, or flowers.  In addition some annuals spread themselves, and you might find more in your garden than you planned.  

My mother planted these Hyacinth and they are gorgeous.  Every year they get bigger, and smell better.

Hyacinths and fairy.

Pink Hyacinth, a very fragrant annual flower.

Pink Hyacinth, so lovely and fragrant.

Cut Hyacinth in a vase.

Grandma's Flowers

It's no wonder I have a love for flowers!  My Grandmother has gorgeous flowers at her house, as does my mother, and both my aunts.  There were always flowers around in my childhood.    I was talking with someone the other day and there are so many to choose from, that it's hard to pick a favorite.  

My Grandmother has beautiful flowers throughout the yard.  There are camillias, Gerbera daisies, Begonia's, Birds of Paradise, and roses of course.  Many of which are tree's too which bloom, like dogwood, fig, and plum.  

Begonia, beautiful, bright and pink.

Pink Begonia's at Grandma's.

 

Camillia's a big beautiful tree.

Pink Gerbera Daisy, my absolute favorites.

Naked Ladies bloomed and gone again.

My favorite, the naked lady, these beautiful flowers are just amazing.  So light and pink and a volunteer flower, that is just beautiful.  

Now we have them in two locations in the yard and quite abundant.  They are also known as belladonna lily, the naked lady, amarillo and amaryllis.

Lovely Lavendar Roses

I drive by these rose bushes often near an apartment building.  The bushes are really tall and they look fairly old.  

These are a beautiful light lavender color.  I am not sure what type of rose they are.  They are beautiful and they smell very fragrant also.  

Wedding Flowers

Wedding flowers, after the wedding.

Recently I went to a beautiful early fall wedding. We were lucky enough to be able to take one of the table bouquets home. 

I was not the one to dump the arrangement outside, but came across it after a few days.

I liked how the colors looked in the dead grass, and the leaves of the hydrangeas were well preserved. 

Beautiful dried flowers.

I love the color of this dried hydrangea.

 

I do love these purple color of the dried hydrangea.

Red Hot Poker, Weaverville, California

This flower is so distinctive and different from ther flowers.

Red hot poker is the name and it looks exactly as it sounds.  As if you were to poke it into the fire.

Gardenia's in the Garden Tract, Shasta County

This flower is a beautiful bright white, and smells absolutely fabulous.  You can smell the fragrant as you walk by.  It had so many blooms this year it was amazing.  These were taken in July and the plant still has some blooms on it.

Our favorite thing to do is have mini vases filled with a few of these in a room.  You will never need to buy air freshener again.

Gardenias grow well in Redding.

Gardenia

Flowered gardenia and budding gardenia.

Roses at Rollins lake Inn California

Roses, color of fire.

I love this color of roses, they remind me of fire.  

Rollins Lake Inn, located on Rollins Lake, close to Grass Valley, CA, has some beautiful grounds with gorgeous roses, such as these.

I particularly love these bright orange red roses, which look like fire to me. 

Great job to whoever is taking care of the roses, they really looked nice while we were visiting the Inn.

Pink roes, and Rollins Lake in the background.

Roses at Rollins Lake Inn

Hollyhock Volunteer in Redding, California

Pink Hollyhock flower.

Hollyhock volunteer flower in Redding, California.

My Mom took this photograph.  :-)

For two years now this pink hollyhock volunteer has been growing by the white picket fence.

A volunteer plant, means a seed came along via the wind or something and planted itself.

I love this flower and I love the fact that we didn't ask for it.

Petunias in Redding, Shasta County.

Petunia's.

My mother planted these very pretty  petunia's back in June.  The dominant color was a bright purple.  As they bloomed and re bloomed over the summer they changed colors.

Petunia's early summer bright purple and white.

Petunia's in August, light purple and white.

Now if you look the below the petunias are not nearly as bright of purple and the flower is predominately white.

Hibiscus in Redding and Shasta County

  

Hibiscus is a beautiful flower and plant.  I love the white ones, and the purple ones for that matter.  The neighbor has a bush which has been formed into a tree, and the flowers are up above.  My mother's is more like a bush.  Not quite as old as the neighbors, his tree must be 30+ years old.

Hibiscus is popular because it attracts bees and butterflies, also you may be more familiar with hibiscus as a tea.  There are hundreds of varieties of the hibiscus flowers, and bush.

The hibiscus prefers a warmer climate.  This is the technical name for this type of hibiscus, Hibiscus syriacus.

 

 

Hibiscus in Redding, California.

This year, right before the purple hibiscus bloomed, I stepped out the door, and I smelled coconut.   I could not figure out where the scent was coming from.  As it turns out it was the Hibiscus!  

Hibiscus syriacus and Tonka truck.

Dhalias that look like daisies, Trinity county, California

My cousin's mother in law owns this house that has a nice garden, it's very old.  It has huge old rose bushes, and huge fruit trees, and it is somewhat of a "garden of paradise". 


I find all kinds of flowers here for photos.  There is also a separate garden area, which actually someone has planted vegetables and herbs.

My cousin planted these dahlias which kinda look like a daisy of sorts.  I never saw this flower before, but thought it was very neat.

Tigerlilies in Shasta County, Redding, California

These tiger lilies bloom every year in the back yard and they are beautiful.    I was looking on some sites, and they are an actual wildflower that grows quite easily in ditches throughout America.  They do well in moist soil, thus the natural propagation in ditches.  

They also have medicinal qualities which I did not know about.  Apparently they can aid with congestion,  and the nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy.

Roses in Shasta county, Redding.

Fuschia Rose

My mother has beautiful roses, they are continually blooming it seems, and she has a wide variety of different types and colors of roses. 

Pink White Rose after rain.

Orange Rose and Chives.

Tropicana Rose