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Eliza Waters 
Superb pink – simply gorgeous!
Thank you, Flavia!
The colors are awakening Eliza 🤗❤️🙏
Yes! 👍🏼 👏🏼
Beautiful! (And you are catching us up!)
At last! We’ve had a few warm days. All we need is rain! Thanks, Cathy.
One of my all time favourites…
A thorny mess, but the pollinators love it. 🙂
Lovely!
Thanks, Debra!
What a beauty!
Thanks, Dale. Time for the hummingbirds to return. These blooms are where I see them first. 🙂
Oooh… Wish I had those in my backyard – I’ve not seen any hummingbirds but, apparently we do have them!
They seem to like reddish tubular flowers best. I try to pick annuals like cigar plant, fuchsia and salvia to attract them.
My mother used to live up north from me and she had a bunch of them. She, of course, had the red feeder that attracted them…. I’ll have to plant cool flowers 🙂
Such a beauty Eliza! ❤️ xxx
Thank you, Xenia! 🙏🏼
wow, I so enjoyed sinking into this luscious quince blossom, Eliza…thank you.
Thank you, Jet!
Absolutely gorgeous, Eliza.
Thank you, Monika!
What a gorgeous flower. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it ‘for real,’ but every time I see a photo like this I wonder; when the fruit ripens, do you eat the slices with a runcible spoon, like the Owl and the Pussycat?
Thank you, Linda. It does bear fruit that is hard like an apple (same size and full of pectin, too), but is extremely tart. A jelly would take LOTS of sugar. But the fruit in a bowl smells lovely, rather fresh, slightly citrusy.
Such a pretty color. Trees are blooming everywhere here.
Thank you, the warm days are having their effect.
We had a few bushes, in a field, behind our other house…40 + years ago…to me the color is salmony. 3:15, yesterday, saw a male Hummy on a feeder & again a little while later. Not today. I called my daughter to tell her…within a short time they had their 1st Male Baltimore Oriole eating jelly…she took a great video & then a video of their 1st Hummy…which seems to be a female!
Any day now! 🤞🏼
Lovely.
Thank you, Cindy!
❤️❤️❤️😍🥰
Thank you, Susan!
Exquisite! What are they?
Thanks, Japanese quince blossoms!
Nice! I’ve never seen them before.
So pretty!
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Thank you, Kris!
Stunning 🤩
Thank you, Karen!
Love Quince, do you get fruit?
Occasionally, but I keep my hedge trimmed down, so not that many. They will germinate seedlings, so I try to gather them when found.
Quince jelly is a thing in the South, my grandmother loved it.
This from the web: “The Latin name for the true quince tree, which produces the fruit traditionally used for high-quality jelly and membrillo, is Cydonia oblonga (also cited as Cydonia oblongata).
While the flowering quince (Chaenomeles japonica) can be used for jelly, it yields a sharper taste and requires more sugar; therefore, the true quince (Cydonia oblonga) is considered the superior variety for traditional preserves.”
When I was in college…..C.speciosa was planted in gardens and used for jelly. The Cydonias were around and called Quince trees, they were usually espaliered to walls and had bigger fruit. I do not recall that it tasted like much!
Exquisite! The colour is bright but also soft.
Thank you, and yesterday afternoon I saw my first hummingbird, right on schedule! That’s my gratitude for the day. 😉
I’ve always love the color of this plant’s blooms: soft, yet rich. They grow here, though usually in February-ish. Lovely photo, Eliza!
Thank you, Tina! I don’t like its thorns, but I love the flowers. 🙂
A very beautiful flower, and so cheerful early in the year!
Thank you, Agnes. It forces well, so some years I take cuttings in Feb. for some indoor color.
What a pretty colour and flower!
Thank you, Belinda. A hummer favorite, too! 👍🏼
Lovely!
Thank you, Barbara!
Gorgeous colors, a pretty grouping, it’s beautiful.
Thank you, Tom. 🙏🏼
I like your composition here … very pretty!
Thank you very much!