For a limited time...

I realize that each of these lovely perennials only have blooms for a short season, and especially how quickly my tulips came and went, how the daffodils (narcissus) survived the cold rainy season, but couldn't stay long enough to hit the heat of last week.
I'm thrilled to have a few flowers to look at, and fellow gardeners have been bringing in their iris cuttings to the office in beautiful bouquets. So...I shot a few more pics, in hopes to make the first week of June last a little bit longer.

 

Newly blooming Columbine...

Vanilla Iris

Iris

 

Siberian Iris buds

Pruning

Any good gardener knows that beautiful roses require careful pruning. Pieces of living plant have to die. It cannot just grow wild. We cannot simply “celebrate growth.” It is more than to be regretted, it is tragic that we seem to have lost the insight that growth in Christ requires careful pruning. Pieces of us by our intentional action need to die if we are to become that person that is in God’s vision. We are not cutting

away a cancerous growth, but making room for intended growth. Mortification refers to that intentional action of pruning of life that better life might grow by God’s grace—just as better roses grow by God’s grace.

          --From Spirituality for Ministry by Urban T. Holmes III

Coral Bells 6.3.2011

 

  

 

  

  

These images were taken with my Motorola Cliq2 Android device and edited with Picnik.  Yes, it makes phone calls and surfs the web, too. :) But, loving the perennials in the garden so much this time of year. These particular plants are lovely additions to cuttings and add a sweet touch of color to the green that surrounds them.

Every day I get to slow down and enjoy the beauty that surrounds me.

Iris Blooms 6.3.2011