Flowering Crab Apple

Flowering Crab apple branches from the garden

Fading Tulips

sometimes a thing can be more beautiful 

after it has lived a little.

Fading tulips

All photographs by Helen James

Spring Flowers

Spring is bursting

Last week in Ireland temperatures were 20 centigrade

record breaking highs

 One of my favourite things to do is pick flowers from my garden

This is something I really missed while living in NYC

It is amazing how something so simple can give so much joy

Currently the House is filled with blooms 

Living Rooms

the red flowering brances are Quince and are from a friends garden

Bathrooms

This is "cooks blue" from Farrow and Ball that some of you gave me advice on 

over on Facebook

really lovely colour

Study

The purple wallflowers and red tulips are from my mothers garden

In other exciting news I think my Wisteria is going to flower this year for the first time

As it takes 4 years on average for Wisteria climbers to flower

I AM BEYOND EXCITED !

I am pretty sure these are flower buds 

Vee Speers for Bloom

Beautiful images by 

Vee Speers 

for

BLOOM

Iris Velghe

So we made it through 

IRENE

without any casualties here

My heart goes out to all of those without power

or with water damage or flooding

Beautiful images by

Iris Velghe

found via

BLOOM