Mother’s Day 2021 has come and gone. I hope you had a lovely day!
On Sunday, Jeff and I went with our friend Kim to the Spring BloomFest at The Stevens-Coolidge House and Gardens in Andover MA. It was 3 years ago that we went to Holland to Keukenhof to see the 7 million tulips where tulips were used to “paint” different patterns usually using a single shade. Though we knew the historic home and grounds owned and run by The Trustees of the Reservations could not compete with Keukenhof, we were eager to get our annual tulip fix 😉 The much smaller Stevens-Coolidge gardens used a mix of colors and types of tulips throughout, very different from Keukenhof’s approach. Nevertheless, I love seeing any tulip display!
Here are a few photos from the Stevens-Coolidge gardens on Sunday. Though the day was cloudy, the flowers were bright and cheery.
I have a lot more photos, but you may not be as enthusiastic about tulips as I am. On to Fashion Flash.
This week’s edition of Fashion Flash is hosted by our fearless leader, Deb of No Nonsense Beauty Blog. Here’s what’s on tap:
- May is National Osteoporosis Month and a good time to schedule a bone density test (I need to) and find out why its important
- learn about gut health, probiotics and fermented foods
- how to style your wardrobe using neutral and monochromatic palettes
- tips to help summer hairstyles keep their cool in the heat
- how to get your feet sandals-ready
- an affordable brand of jewelry that makes gifting or a treat for yourself within reach
- find out about hair supplements.
Click over to No Nonsense Beauty Blog and check ’em out! And have a good week 🙂
BEAUTIFUL!! I love tulips if it was the yard I used to have I would have been out with the scissors to fill some vases.
I love tulips too, Gloria. I have never been able to grow them successfully. The critters around here dig up and eat the bulbs before they have a chance to get established. I know I could plant them with wire mesh, but I’m afraid I’m too lazy. Were you able to grow tulips in your yard before you moved to your current home?
Yes I had a lot of tulips, you plant once and they come back ever year. I had a couple of beds of different spring flowers and then in the same beds others flowers that would come up after the spring flowers died away.
How lucky! When I tried to plant tulips, I had to treat them as annuals because of the wild life around here. It got too expensive!! I envy you. But otherwise, perennials are the best. Jacob’s ladder, a pink clump of flowers that I can’t remember the name of, the hellebores, forget-me-nots, and the perennial geraniums are blooming in my garden now. Columbine and lilies of the valley are getting ready to open soon. My favorites, the lilacs, are starting to open now. The passageway between the side of my house where my lilacs are and the path beside my neighbors’ lilacs was smelling heavenly, until their landscaping company came this afternoon and put down manure and mulch all over their yard that completely overwhelms the lovely lilacs. Grrrrr.