Hello to the Always a Flower Community!
I’m so happy be included as a new member here. As I told 
I live in southern New England, and the really warm weather continues to be almost here. So the forget-me-nots, who were heavily featured in my last post, refuse to give up center stage.
Their charming little blossoms just continue to bloom in rapid succession up and up and up a long slender stem till they reach the tip.
At a distance they can look a bit like swarms of small lite blue gnats hovering several inches above the ground.
The azaleas are blooming without their consent because the forget-me-nots were clearly trying to take over the world.
Obviously, my azaleas are not the least bit shy. Brilliant magenta blossoms palely reflected by the sunset sky.
(The forget-me-nots were furious that they weren’t included in the shot!)
But spring means flowers abound, not just in my gardens. Far away from roads and houses, (as well as my egocentric forget-me-nots), small crowds of violets plant themselves in moss covered mud that somehow resists the flow of shallow streams and rivulets trickling by on either side.
Pretty purple petals roll into curls and gracefully recede while fresher blooms boldly gaze at me,
unaware of their own beauty,
or of any need for social distancing.
Further up the hillside the blood red petals of the tri-leaved, tri-petaled trillium are hard to miss, their blossoms bending forward with modest dignity.
Growing comfortably in the shallow dirt on top of granite rocks and boulders studded with quartz, their roots twist down and embed themselves where water seeps deeply into the cracks between the stones.
Unlike any of the prima donnas in my gardens, apparently trillium are perfectly happy with the smattering of sunlight they receive, as it slips through the dense canopy high above them.
While a rare sunny clearing allows wild olives to form into dense sapling-like shrubs. Their star-shaped white and lemon-yellow blooms scent the forest far and wide with a sweet spicy fragrance that always makes me jealous. I would love to smell like that!
Well that’s all for now folks. I have to admit, I totally enjoyed doing “the research” for this post. It should be a fun summer at Always a Flower:)
Thanks so much for checking out my post. I’ll have to spend a bit less time researching and a bit more time getting to know the community.
Hope to meet you soon!