What a joy to view from our bay window area at breakfast time a pot plant on our patio with blooming azaleas!
So Pieter clipped off some branches to bring inside and I put it in a tiny vase on a silver platter.
For better light on December 3, I had to get outside on the tiled patio behind our Rose Suite.
As soon as I placed it on the table there, our Spooky boy jumped on the table too.
You see his front legs to the left... photo bombing my azaleas!
Here the azaleas are without Spooky behind them...
A view over the lawn with these lovely pink azaleas up close.
Pot plant with remainder of azaleas on patio next to bay window area.
Oh, we have tons of leaves on the lawn and everywhere, the wind is shaking them all off.
But still this photo is from December 7, and that is not bad for having blooms!
Thanks for your visit and comment and do you have something blooming? That is, if you also live in the Northern Hemisphere...
Love your azaleas..now my garden is bare. Again next spring I'm going to plant ..
ReplyDeleteDearest Krishna,
DeleteThank you and it is so very special to have something blooming in winter time, like our Camellias.
Hugs,
Mariette
Close to fifteen years in the Pacific Northwest and there are days I sorely miss a warm climate! I had a gardenia bush in Orlando ~~~
ReplyDeleteDearest Helen,
DeleteOh, after having lived three winters in the tropics in Indonesia, we MISS anything blooming and green in winter time, it is so hard...
But that is life and there are other aspects that are beautiful.
Hugs,
Mariette
Liebe Mariette,
ReplyDeletesehr schön!
Alles Liebe
Elisabeth
Liebe Elisabeth,
DeleteJa, es macht soviel Freude um Blüten im Winter zu sehen...
Liebe Grüße,
Mariette
Hello Mariette, Your really have a green thumb. Those azaleas are so delicate and perfect. I never think of them as a late fall flower, and of course in Ohio by December nothing blooms at all.
ReplyDelete--Jim
Dearest Jim,
DeleteAzaleas are beauties and no doubt in Taiwan you can see them around.
Ohio will be equal to our birth country The Netherlands and indeed, nothing blooms.
Hugs,
Mariette
I can't imagine living somewhere warm enough to have flowers blooming in December. Our icicles are "blooming," do they count? LOL.
ReplyDeleteDearest Kim,
DeleteWell, I'm afraid that your ice flowers don't count as they also lack the color that brightens our winter.
It is a special joy, together with our Camellias that bloom now as well.
Hugs,
Mariette
How beautiful flowers!
ReplyDeleteDearest Anne,
DeleteYes, they are strikingly beautiful for this time of the year.
Unreal for your far Nordic region...
Hugs,
Mariette
It's great to see such lovely color in a cold winter! Your azaleas are beautiful, Mariette. There is a large azalea park near my home town in Japan and we can enjoy full bloom in May. Your post reminded me of that :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd nice photo bomb by Spooky!
Dearest Tamago,
DeleteYes, ours also mostly bloom in May but this is a fall/winter blooming variety and therefore so very special.
There is no better Azalea country though than Japan!
Hugs,
Mariette
What a gorgeous flower in such a color and yes, I too agree, right in almost Winter time !
ReplyDeleteYou have a beautiful house and garden and not only that but a very great "Green Thumb" too.
Merry Christmas dear friend.
Fabby
Dearest Fabby,
DeleteThank you and as of today, it is officially winter and also the shortest day. Happy for that.
We both have been born and raised almost inside greenhouses and fields with veggies and fruits, so it is in every vein of you...
Merry Christmas to you sweet friend!
Mariette
Le cose più belle della vita non si trovano sotto l’albero, ma nelle persone che ti stanno vicino nei momenti speciali.
ReplyDeleteBuon Natale!
Caro Giancarlo,
DeleteHai ragione qui e momenti speciali sono gli regali per sempre nella memoria...
Buon Natale a voi,
Mariette
I love to see your azalea blooming!
ReplyDeleteYou know how my heat is warm?
I hope you have a wonderul New Year,Mariette.
Dearest Tomoko,
DeleteSo glad it did warm your heart, as it does mine!
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year in good health.
Hugs,
Mariette
Dat is vroeg, is dat altijd zo? Ik vind de foto met met de zwarte achtergrond van Spooky wel mooi, geeft een mooi contrast met de azalea's :)
ReplyDeleteBeste Marian,
DeleteDit is inderdaad een láát bloeiende variëteit en daarom bijzonder om te hebben en ook binnen ons zichtbereik.
Inderdaad gaf Spooky een mooi contrast.
Liefs,
Mariette