Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Spring Flowers, Finally!

Finally!  Our first bloom.

Last week we were scraping frost from the car and wearing winter coats.  Today it was close to 90 degrees (about 32 C)!

Double, or maybe quadruple, daffodils.

We don't often post flower pictures cause our mom is very inventive when it comes to killing plants. You might remember last spring when she saw several caterpillars on a plant and she sprayed the plant with Deep Woods OFF!.  The plant was dead within 4 days.

The mom started a garden last year in the trench the plumber dug when replacing the waterline to the house, so these are some pictures of the first plants to survive her.

Miniature daffodils.
The last plants the mom's mom gave her
before she died.

26 comments:

Summer at sparklecat.com said...

can guarantee my human's thumb is blacker than your human's - the only way a plant can make it around here is for her to completely have nothing to do with it.

michico*Adan*Lego-小芥*阿丹*樂高 said...

Very beautiful~!!!
Glad the spring season is coming.

Angel Prancer Pie said...

Well, they survived beautifully! Our Mommy loves those quadruple daffodils!

Donna said...

That is a pretty flower. :)

Tama-Chan, Benny, Vidock, Violette, Ollie, Heloise, Momo, Ryu said...

Those are lovely flowers. Maybe your Mom's luck is turning?

That's quite the jump in temperature!

Purrs,
The Chans

The Furries of Whisppy said...

Those are some cheerful looking blooms!
Our garden is looking pathetic because Mommy's unwilling to sit in the sauna to tend to our plants. :(

Hannah and Lucy said...

We like daffodils as they are the start of warmer weather. Could you spare us a few of your degrees as it's still quite chilly here.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

Fuzzy Tales said...

Good heavens, from freezing to 90F is crazy weather. We'll take somewhere in the middle. LOL. Today we're bracing for freezing rain, snow and ice pellets. OMC, our winter never will end!!!!

Love, love to see spring flowers--so glad someone has them!

Pat Hatt said...

Wow 90F, could you bottle some of that up and push it up here please.

Brian's Home Blog said...

Those sure are pretty! We are so happy to see Spring, except for the potential tornados in our area late tonight, yikes!

da tabbies o trout towne said...

oui...R mom canna boil water sew...

de flowers iz reeely grate....we final lee R see inn green grass...but thatz it...two morrow...

a high.... oh 46 !!

Annie Bear said...

Wow, your weather is crazier than ours! Your flowers are so pretty! Great job!

Anonymous said...

The daffodils are lovely! They're a real sign of Spring.

Katie Isabella said...

You babies stay away from them though...might be poisonous. How is Carl? I miss him.

meowmeowmans said...

Well, no matter how long they last, those flowers sure are pretty! :)

The weather has been crazy! The dad had a tough time getting home from L.A. last night -- the plane had to take a southerly route, and was in the air for more than seven hours!

Kitties Blue said...

Very lovely flowers. One week ago today we were being bombarded in snow. Yesterday we broke the old temp record of 88 degrees. It was 90 and the daffodils are shriveling up. They do not like this hot weather. There was a lot of MOL activity here when we read about the Deep Woods Off! Purrs and hugs from the kitties at The Cat on My Head, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Josette

Kjelle Bus aka Charlie Rascal said...

YAY , for springflowers !
Here we are still waiting for warmer weather.
XOXO

The Island Cats said...

We like seeing your flowers since we STILL don't have any! It was only 40 degrees today...and rainy...yuck.

Texas, a Cat in... Austin said...

Lovely flowers!
My human would love to grow a little garden but she is too lazy for that!
Purrs

Anonymous said...

yay to your Mom and her wunnerful daffy-daffs! verrah pretteh. Mrs. W. is the woman to talk to as she spends most of her times in the yard planting delishous greeny greens for me to nom. which i only do when i can't find a mole, which is not all that often, ackshully. anyway, any garden and/or mole-hunting questions you guys may have, we are the experts.

Timmy Tomcat said...

Very purrty! Our Dad has a brown thumb too!

Cat and DOG Chat With Caren said...

your flowers are just beautiful!

Avalon's Garden and Mewsings of Garden Cottage Cats said...

Yea!!! it'z daffodil & stinkbug time!! ^.,^

♥♥♥xoxoxo Kissiez to All ~

A Tonl said...

oh those are beautiful! 90's?? MOWZERS! We're in the 70's here - not quite as warm but nice enough for open windows - YAY!

Gigi said...

My Human has one (ONE) houseplant that--so far--has resisted her efforts to kill it. It's pretty big, but every now and then it loses whole swaths of leaves and branches, but so far that has not been the death of it. I don't have too much hope though.

These flowers are BEEYOOTIFUL. She should take that as a sign that her black thumbs are taking on a greenish hue.

Congrats on your first blooms ;-)

The Florida Furkids said...

Purrty! We're glad Spring is finally on the way!

The Florida Furkids