Pretty, Pretty!

Blackberry Blooms

Yellow Iris

Sweet Shrub

These are photos of a sweet shrub (calycanthus floridus) that my mother planted at the home we lived in from about 1973 to 1976 (which would be when I was still a child). I own the property now and rent the old farm house out.

This plant grows near the corner of the porch. I confess we have cut it back multiple times at varying times of the year. My husband keeps hoping it will die but it grows back time after time, bigger than it was before he pruned it. Since my mother planted it, I have a bit of a fondness for it. Apparently, it is an incredibly hardy plant.

A Little Yellow

Petunia and Roses

Color on Parade

Yellow Iris

The iris was one of my mother's favorite flowers, and it is also one of mine.

These yellow ones came from her garden, transplanted rhizomes that I nurtured. They continue to bloom annually as they have for almost 30 years now. I always feel peaceful when I look at the iris.

Columbine: The Flower

Early Days of Spring

First butterfly!

Dogwoods getting ready to bloom.

Some kind of cocoon thing on my berry branches.

This is either an anemone or a sorrel of some kind. I thought it was a wood anemone but those have five petals, these have four. 

I couldn't find anything that looked exactly like these in my guide books. 

They are very pretty, whatever they are.