Zinnias bloom in my son Tristan’s garden in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. The brilliant flowers attracts pollinators to vegetable gardens. They’re pretty and they benefit the vegetables at the same time.
The old fashioned climbing rose is early and full this year in my back yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. My parents always called it “Donna’s Rose” because it bloomed around my late sister’s birthday.
A sure sign of spring in North Carolina, buttercups are bloomong in the pastures. They are beautiful, but cattle won’t eat them and they are basically noxious weeds.