Gardening with Soule

 Valentines Day is the best.
 It’s all about love and the color red.
Any day that involves the giving of chocolate can’t be anything but great. 

 Last but not least, there are flowers~ especially roses.
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~Here is the deepest secret nobody knows,
Here is the root  of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky [...]

     While taking a ride out in the country one afternoon, we found this wonderful Red Barn.  

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 The paint was tired and peeling but the color more than made up for it. Â
 I especially liked the red glass lightening rod on top.
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling [...]

At long last my amaryllis bloomed.
  It was worth the wait.Â
Such a beauty!

There’s nothing like a beautiful bloom to brighten up a dreary January day.
  

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~The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.
-   Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

 ~I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains.  One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.  ~Adeline Knapp
 

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Amaryllis are the easiest of flowering bulbs to bloom.  It’s botanical name is Hippastrume and it is now a popular Christmas time flower that originated in South American tropical regions.  They are not winter hardy bulbs but they are fun to force in the wintertime to have holiday blooms.  They always seem like a Christmas flower to me.  It’s [...]