The children have both been trained to point them out to me, so I don't have to miss a single one. The two year old particularly melts my heart when she shouts out "Japanse kerselaar!"
I spit on magnolia. Forsythia I consider a poor relation. Japanese cherry, you have my heart.
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I love them too. We have tonnes around here at the moment, and they just lift the spirits.
ReplyDeleteSeriously now, there's room enough in the world for all.
ReplyDeleteI think they're gorgeous! We don't get many of them around here.
ReplyDeleteOoh I love those. Though I'm not sure I'd know a magnolia or a forsythia if I tripped over one...
ReplyDeletewe have a wall of lilac in bloom and it smells so yummy.
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous. While it's lovely to have bougainvillea blooming - you can't beat cherry blossom.
ReplyDeletewell...i love japanase cherry blossom too..as well as all other cherries..but still..i alos love magnolia trees..but i hate..i really mean it..forsythia...i really can not look at them..
ReplyDeleteWe do not get the Japanese cherry. So sad.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of a dream my daughter had the other night after looking up the meanings of different flowers in tattoos. She dreamed she had gotten a magnolia tattoo but somehow, it had cherry blossoms on it too. It upset her because she did not like what the cherry blossoms symbolized which is something about purity.
Tee-hee.
That's my girl.
which one of your wonderful girls? @ ms moon
ReplyDelete@nappy valley girl - They are on the verge of fully in bloom here. I'm hoping they'll last a while.
ReplyDelete@Angie Muresan - I know. :-) I was exaggerating. The only one that really bugs me is this one particular kind of magnolia that seems to be ALL over Flanders. As if there aren't any other varieties.
@Calif Lorna - Ooh, I don't know. I do love them as well and we don't get them here. I do go completely crazy about Southern flowers.
@Danielle - Hey! Lovely to 'see' you!
@Ms. Moon - Strange that they are associated with purity. Something about the lush sensuality of the flowers would make that strange to me. I do agree with whichever girl that purity is not something to be aiming for per se.
If you spit on my beloved Magnolias again, I am going to kick the next Japanese cherry tree.
ReplyDeleteIt's too cold here for those but it is lovely. I unfortunatly cannot handle anything with flowers ( I puff up liek a blow fish )so am stuck inside until...June :o But it is a very lovely tree.
ReplyDeleteYou spit on magnolia. UNFOLLOW ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm cleaning the virtual spit off my magnolia right now... (Just kidding. I don't really have a magnolia tree. We just have a crape myrtle and a sad little tree that is looking like it might die and my husband has been spending every hour when he is not at his 5 jobs trying to resurrect. You can feel free to spit on that one, cuz I'm about done with it.)
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