I know a few secret places where I find the first lovely smelling violets of the year. They were the favourite scent in Marlene Dietrich's perfume - it is called "Berlin" by Frau Tonis (you find her shop near Checkpoint Charlie).
These little tulips flower only for two days.
Aren't they beautiful?
Isn't spring such a sign of hope and a new beginning?
I will read - as every year - "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth von Arnim, and watch the very well-made movie on a DVD too.
I am appreciating Springs beauty even more this year - far better than learning about what is going on in the world.
ReplyDeleteThis year my garden has been invaded by violets - I have clumps of them all around the garden and know not where they came from! However, I am very happy to accommodate them.
Dear Rosemary, yes - much better than all the bad news (I honestly do a news-detox at the moment). When I still had my big garden in Hildesheim I also had such a violet "invasion" and wrote an article about the line that school children in Germany often wrote into a friendship book: "Be as the violet in the moss - modest, demure and pure / and not like the proud rose which always wants to be admired". Haha - I never agreed - and the violet neither!
DeleteAll that work by your own hands and little tulips only flower for two days? Hydrangeas bloom for 4 months.
ReplyDeleteDear Helen, the Tulip turkestanica is a wild flower, so not in my garden. This tulip is one of the earliest flowering species.
DeleteIn the Netherlands you find hydrangeas en masse - of course, they love water (from the ground or pouring down) and her name is translated to "Water-slurperess".
Spring has not awakened here yet. First will come dandelions then violets.
ReplyDeleteDear Mimmylynn, in which country do you live? Is it Australia? I am deeply interested.
DeleteYes, it still has to get going properly here.
ReplyDeleteThe last two days brought a soft explosion here, dear Tasker. Still green veils, still tender tiny leaves, not all trees are green, but many flowering - tomorrow they announce 20 degrees C° - but the night can still be under zero.
DeleteI long for English spring pastures!