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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friday, April 4, 2008

Wilmington in Bloom

Our yard is bursting with flowers, flowering bushes, and flowering trees. The entire Cape Fear region is quite a sight. Scott took these beautiful photos. The flowers below are wisteria. It grows as a vine up into trees. The roads are lined with extremely tall pine trees that have wisteria winding all the way up.


Below is some sort of flowering tree in our yard. We don't know what it is, but we also have a plum tree and a peach tree (both in bloom), and a few dogwood trees that are entirely covered in white blossoms.


More azaleas. You can see that they come in a variety of colors from white to almost purple. The azalea bushes completely encircle our back yard, and they are also planted in front of our house and along the drive. Our landlord keeps these bushes trimmed very tightly. Most of the older houses in the downtown area let them grow almost wild -- they are just big, bushy mounds of flowers. Just about every house in the area has them, so flowers are everywhere right now.


6 comments:

Mom / Jolene said...

I can hardly believe it. I don't think I have ever seen flowers like that. They are Beautiful! Just wondering, what does it do to Scott's allergies?

Megan said...

Have you not seen Laura's picture of her stupid little plant in her yard covered with snow? I am SO SO SO jealous. I cannot believe how beautiful. I'm with mom, I've never seen anything that beautiful before - except maybe on the temple grounds where they have a slew of gardeners that tend to the beds. Wow - so lucky!!!

laura said...

::JEALOUS::

Scott & Heather said...

the doctors here say that it takes a year after moving here before you have an allergic reaction. and by the way our cars get covered with yellow pollen every day

Dad said...

Scott, I had no idea you had such a green thumb!!! You must have worked your heart out. Ha Ha...hope you appreciate. It's very beautiful!!

darbs said...

i would be sneezing up a storm! those are amazing!