As I left the neighborhood this weekend to go to a meeting, I lamented how dreary and “ugly” it’s been here in South Texas for the past week. No sun in at least five days. Then I turned onto the road behind our subdivision and saw a massive carpet of beautiful bluebonnets blooming in a yard. I smiled and turned up the radio. My whole day changed. It may be snowing up north, but spring has sprung here. The more rain we receive, the more wildflowers we’ll enjoy. I love plants. I love flowers. I love having them all over the house, inside and out.
I also love the idea of grubbing in the dirt, smelling the peat moss, and planting the seedlings. But a green thumb, I do not have. The plant doctor at our house is my husband. He has been for almost thirty years. When we moved into our house, the backyard was a sea of dirt. It didn’t even have grass. The front yard had grass, two twigs that the Realtor called trees, and some fire bushes under the windows. That was it. I have wonderful memories of the hours we spent wandering through nurseries, debating the pros and cons of flowers and plants and trees. We took turns pulling the little wobbly-wheeled carts with our precious pots over uneven stone walkways. It smelled like fresh dirt. The air was warm and humid. Bees zoomed around us.
Years later, the tiny burr oak and red oak trees Tim planted with the kids now tower over the second-floor windows. In the late spring and early summer, the backyard blazes with the yellow bells, orange pride of barbados, and the purple and red salvias and lantanas. These flowers thrive in the intense south Texas heat. In fact, the hotter it is, the more they grow and bloom. The more they bloom, the more hummingbirds and butterflies visit us.
Flowers have a therapeutic value that can’t be duplicated by any pill. I sit at my breakfast table in the morning with my bagel and coffee and stare out at them as I write my stories in my head. Tim used to come home from work and stand in the backyard, a hose in his hand, watering the flowers while he destressed. He spends hours reworking the small garden along the fence, trying different plants, growing tomatoes, jalapenos, and serrano peppers alongside the flowers. He weeded, pruned, and did battle with predators who stole the vegetables.
These life experiences tuck themselves into my writer’s brain as I explore new stories. In Upon a Spring Breeze, the first book in my new Amish romance series, Every Amish Season, Bess Weaver’s first step in healing after tragedy is to visit a nursery, pick out her favorite flowers, take them home, and plant them. Here’s a snippet from the nursery scene:
“Take these.” He shoved a tray of golden yellow marigolds along with another of pink impatiens onto the cart. “Oh, and these. You’ll need to balance out the colors.”
“Zinneas in pinks, yellows, and fuchsia. A cornucopia of color. Somehow she felt better already, and not a single flower had graced Mattie’s garden. “Thank you.”
Watching new life sprout in the spring reminds Bess that her life isn’t over. This is a season of change in her life, just as it is in ours. Sometimes flowers are the best medicine.
Upon a Spring Breeze debuts April 11. I can’t wait to see what else blooms in my life this spring. Leave a comment below about your favorite flowers to be entered in a giveaway for an advance, signed copy of Upon a Spring Breeze, a 2017 Farmer’s Almanac, and seed packets of my favorite flowers. The name will be drawn at noon (CST) on Friday, March 17, 2017.
I love flowers. Marigolds are one of my garden favorites. They look like sunshine in the garden. I can hardly wait for the new book to come out!
I can’t wait for this book to come out too! I like that image–“sunshine in the garden.”
I love pansies they remind me of little faces.
I see a lot of pansies here in landscaping around buildings. They have so many colors to work with. They’re really cute.
I love carnations, beautiful colors and smell so good!
“Zinnias in pinks, yellows, and fuchsia” paints such a pretty picture! Zinnias are my favorite garden flower because they are so old-fashioned, but then I love geraniums, snap-dragons, four o’clocks, purslane, oh my, I can’t just narrow it down to one! Love spring and visiting greenhouses. Thanks for the opportunity to win and hope you have a blessed week!
Zinneas are pretty easy too. They remind me of Kansas and growing up!
I absolutely love Hydrangea because they remind me of my Granny. In fact for years I didn’t even know their name. They were Granny’s Flowers to me. They take me back to my childhood and her beautiful flower garden and how she would pick me one flower and I’d have a whole bouquet. However, I also love the little purple and pink weed flowers that cover the yards in the early spring. I still don’t know their name. They remind me of our daughter, our only child, that died in a car accident when she was 17. She always called them Easter Flowers because when she was little we hid the Easter eggs in them. So to me, my favorite flowers are the ones that are not only pretty but they evoke wonderful memories as well.
What lovely memories, Kay. Bittersweet, but ones you’ll always hang on to. Thank you for sharing them.
I love looking at flowers sadly that is my extent – I have black thumbs – I can kill any plant – once my cousin gave me a start of crepe myrtle and said it will be fine – you can’t kill it – well we got it home from GA planted it and on week later I died!!! Thumbs of death! But if I had to pick a favorite it would be Hyacinth (spelling??) they are so fragrant. Kelley love the blog, the new book is a breath of fresh and I can’t wait to read the inside. Have a blessed day. Connie (West Chester OH)
Tulips are my favorite flower. I love all of the beautiful colors!
Spring is my favorite time of the year! I love watching everything come back to life. Tulips are my favorite flower.
I love flowers, almost any flowers. Pansies for spring and fall, begonias and nasturtiums en masse for summer, roses, tulips….I love them all.
SPRING is my favorite season… the rebirth of everything is so refreshing! I love Gerber Daisies ♡
I am in Michigan and we are currently receiving snow. I love the reminder that Spring is just around the corner and gardening can begin. Your description of your yard brought a smile to my face and anticipation to my heart. I am ready for Spring.
I hope to win a copy
I love this time of year! My favorite spring flower are Pansies. Not the newer ones without the faces. I love to see a pansy with the face on it. Also, love geraniums in my larger flower pots with spikes and petunias around them. Have a great week! We are facing a snowstorm here in south central PA. God Bless!
We had a large red maple in our front yard . My Mom always planted impatients under it, they grew to almost 18 inches tall and looked fabulous. Miss that tree.
I love all kinds of flowers. I have always loved digging in the dirt and watching things grow. Should have got a job in a greenhouse. I don’t buy a lot of things for myself, but when spring comes my husband lets me buy flowers and plants for the garden. It’s my time to treat myself. I think he enjoys looking at the combinations I come up with and I know that he enjoys the bounty from the garden. I love to read as a past time. Amish stories are my favorite. I am anxious to read your book. Have a great day!
I love pansies. My daughter buys me some every year for Mother’s Day to plant in an old washtub that belonged to my late parents. At Easter, she gives me hyacinths which fill my house with a lovely scent. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway, Kelly.
My favorite flowers are tulips and roses but I really love all flowers! The beautiful colors especially in the spring are wonderful. Your book sounds like a great read. Love to find and read new authors!
I love white daisies!!
Your blog made me smile on this “cold” dreary day in Deep South Texas (it’s 60 degrees – that’s chilly to us down here). I can just envision your beautiful yard with the hummingbirds and butterflies! I love all of the flowers that God has gifted this earth with, but I believe my favorite is the tulip. So much so, that when I was asked where I would like to go if I could go anywhere on this earth, I replied “I would love to see the tulips blooming in Holland”. So, after googling, “peak tulip season in Holland”, we have booked a trip there for next month. Have a blessed day
I love tulips. I remember them growing in my frontyard as a kid. It’s actually nippy here too today, 53 degrees and cloudy. LOL. But the rain will bring more flowers . . . .
I love spring because it brings on all the beautiful flowers. All are a piece of God’s master piece. I love lilacs smell so wonderful. And reminds me of my grandmother Bea. Next would be daffodils my husband when we was dating picked a big bouquet for me while we was walking in a park. when he told me to turn around I saw he was loaded down with them. I don’t know why I looked down and there was a little sign … DO NOT PICK THE FLOWERS!! O my gosh we took off running. But when I see one it makes me smile of that memory.
Blessings
Diana
joeym11(at)frontier(dot)com
I love this story. Too funny. Having worked at the Parks Department here for more than 20 years, I know about the temptation to pick the flowers. They’re just so beautiful!
Flowers are God’s gift to us as a reminder we are His children.
He loves us no matter what…
Blessings to all. Thanks for the gifts in words.
Sandra
My favorite flower is impatients and Wisteria, but I love spring when everything wakes up and starts to grow. I would love to get a copy of your new book.thank you for all your wonderful stories and for passing on photos of you family. God bless you and I hope ypour health improves each.
I can’t wait for spring in Michigan! While today it’s snowing, I look forward to planting marigolds, a couple of rosebushes, sunflowers, and whatever else catches my fancy. A new flower bed encourages the imagination, as does a new book. I look forward to reading it!
Sigh…I love the flowers of South Texas, lantana being my most favorite, and pink bougainvillea, and my utmost favorite, gardenias… Oh to smell that is heavenly… Fresh honeysuckle is up there in my favorites list for sure…
I love honeysuckle! It is hard to pick one!
I love tulips in the spring !!!
Thank you for a chance to win your book. I love all flowers so it’s hard to choose one.
I love yellow daffodils. My mom passed away when I was 6 years old and even though I don’t remember a lot about her I do remember she planted yellow daffodils in the front yard of my childhood home. Yellow was her favorite color and she loved daffodils because it meant spring and that they came back every year. I planted some in my own yard and every year when they bloom it reminds me of her.
I really don’t have a favorite. I just like a colorful garden.
Love the cover of Upon a Spring Breeze
Thank you. Me too! LOL
I love spring flowers! Daffodils and Tulips especially. I always want to pick them for a pretty vase I have but the last few years I haven’t because I just want everyone to enjoy them.
I love all flowers, but daisies are my favorite.
I love love love Indian Paintbrush. That bright orangey color mixed in with the red clover and bluebells is gorgeous! Beautiful cover on “Upon a Spring Breeze”. And I have to paint my thumb green to have a green thumb! (Or just use my mother in law to help me out) She can grow anything it seems! 😉
I love Indian Paintbrush too. I see it sometimes driving from San Antonio to Bandera in the spring. Thanks. I love the cover too!
I’m not quite sure the name of my favorite flower. I saw this flower at a local park and took a beautiful picture of it and I have no idea what it’s called! 🙂 It was very lovely though. Perhaps I’ll google it to figure it out.
Kelly this book looks very good, love the cover. I love all flower really but three years ago I planted dinner plate Delias they were so very beautiful! Now I also love Morning Glories and Moon Flowers. Something about going out in the early morning hours of the morning and counting how many Glories have opened that morning and also watching the hummingbirds come and eat from the flowers is mesmerizing. Then in the evening I can watch the Moom Flowers pop out. Finally I love the tiny moss roses they are so small and require a lot of work to dead head the roses but they are beautiful and are in so many colors.
Good luck to all and God Bless.
I love your books and just found your blog, so pretty, my favorite flowers of all are lilacs, such a short bloom time for them here in PA though!
I love flowers of any kind. We have roses in buckets. In the spring we plant marigolds, petunias, and anything that brings color. We love getting the yard ready for all the flowers. My husband is a police officer so working in the yard is therapy for him and helps him relax.
I love flowers 🌺 from the first snowdrop blooms to the fading mums. Flowers make me feel happy. God’s beauty…
Thank you for the chance. Blessings
Roses are top but would have every flower i could if i had the space
I love all flowers but I say roses and lillies are my favorite I like wild wood flowers also can’t wait to read this book
Thanks for this reminder that Spring is on its way. Here in Kentucky we’ve had a remarkably mild Winter and all of the plants are about 4-6 weeks ahead of schedule. But now, we are looking for snow and sub-freezing temperatures!
I enjoy marigolds because they remain pretty through Spring, Summer and Fall. I also love Sunflowers and I imagine them smiling at me as they reach toward the sun. And then, I look forward to the mums that give us beauty when some of the other flowers are fading. Yes, I am a dirt grubber and week puller and I love it all!
Congrats on your new book. I am looking forward to reading it.
Blessings!
Connie
cps1950(at)gmail(dot)com
I love my flowers! It’s hard to pick just one, but if I have to, I will pick daisies! Ever since I was a little girl I have loved them! The color is pure and glows! As a child I remember pulling the whites off to, he loves me, he loves me not. Just brings back so many enjoyable memories of the past and the great childhood I had!
Purple Irises. Purple is my favorite color and Irises are beautiful. When the two b are combined breathtaking.
Always loved petunias for spring/summer. Love the cover on your book!
I have so many favorite flowers because I can’t choice just one but I do think Lilacs has to top the list, then petunias, honeysuckle, my roses in my rose area, peonies, carnations. I am not a fan of lilies at all. The smell is to overwhelming for me.
Thanks for a chance to win
Kelly the cover of your book is breathtaking! The beautiful colors made me think spring even though we are expecting up to 2 feet of snow. My favorite flower is the petunia. I love the variety of colors and the way they multiply. My deck is always overflowing with them! I can never have enough!
I love flowers that remind me of my mom and when I was little- marigolds, petunias and geraniums
I love flowers of all kinds. I have to go with tulips and lilacs as they are tied as to my favorite flowers. I love the sprinkler on the cover. Many years ago we had one but it disappeared. Don’t know what happened to it. Besides being used to sprinkle flowers, it would be beautiful planted with flowers.
Lilacs have always been my favorite flower!!!
I love lilacs and peonies. They both smell so good! I have never read any of your books and would love to win to read one.
I love all the spring flowers. It’s so good to see them after a long winter.
I love the rose but all flowers are beautiful.
Pansies are my favorite flowers. I plant them in the spring in hanging pots and they are still blooming in late fall. I then move them onto my enclosed porch and I have kept them blooming til Dec. or sometimes I transplant them to the garden and they will come up again in the spring. Love the cover of your book. Thanks for the chance to win, it would be a great birthday present for me as my birthday is on the 18th. Have a blessed week.
Wow can i really have a favorite. In the Spring when i start planning what to plant all i see is color lots of color lots of blooms. But if i have to choose since i was little i use to pick my grandmas Lily of the Valleys. She alwYs had a big smile when i gave them to her. But little did i know she planted them! Lol
I just love the bookcover for Upon A Spring Breeze. I reminds me that spring is just around the corner, especially when the weatherman is calling for about 22 inches of snow in Pennsylvania. I just love springtime and the beautiful flowers and their great smell and colors. . Spring is such a new beginning after a long winter, when the ground is brown. I really enjoyed reading your blog and looking forward to reading Upon A Spring Breeze. Thank you for this chance to win!
I love Peonies ! All the flowers are pretty and smell nice but the Peony has such a sweet smell. The only other one to give it a run would be lilacs in my opinion. Can’t wait for the book
Can’t wait to read the new book,my favorite flower is hydrangea so beautiful.
I love flowers and all the beautiful colors.This is a hard question to answer as they all are my favorites,(even the cactus).Periwinkles,roses,are in the running but if I have to pick just one it would be a bleeding heart.I am looking forward to seeing the beautiful flowers decorating the yards and mine including.
My favorite flower are the deep dark red roses. We h planted a bush when we were first married back in 1972. We moved a couple of years later. Went back to see the place about 15 years later. That rose bush was in full bloom and oh how beautiful!
I love tulips. They bring back happy memories of when I was a child. They would be the first to pop up in the spring and I’d be so excited when they started to appear. Mom planted some outside my bedroom window so I could keep an eye on them.
love to see all flowers beds!!!
My favorite flower is the lilies family ! When I was a kid my mom would have dad pull over so we could pick the orange daylilies ! So as an adult I was walking and seen this forest lot and decided to pick some and a man came out and yelled at me but seriously I would not have picked them but there a wild flower that will die! Too me it is like a childhood dream to see to have to hold these flowers! My mom now plants them in her flower garden for me! Loving Lilies!!
I love bachelor’s buttons…they sound so….old fashioned. Then again, I’ve always liked moon flowers, because they sound so exotic. 🙂 I’d love an advanced copy of your book — I’ll review it. 🙂
I love to smell of all of the flowers. I love the different colors of them. Butmy all time favorite is a rose. My precious Moma loved red roses. The rose reminds me of her beauty.
My favorite is roses and they have a very special meaning to me I love the cover of the book
Flowers are always a special welcome here. Our growing season is short, so we enjoy what we have! I’m looking forward to your new book.
I love all flowers from Spring tulips, daffodils, hyacinth, lilacs,
..Summer roses, zinnias, marigolds, cannas, iris, Easter Lilies …Fall mums and Winter poinsettias, Amarilyss, and even holly. .Each are a wonder in itself…not to mention the countryside full of qild flowers
Tulips are my favorite and I loved your book. I was able to review an advanced copy.
Thanks, Cecilia. So glad you liked it!
I have two beds of iris that were given to me by my friend Karen. When she learned the iris was my favorite flower, she gave me bags of them from her garden, all carefully labeled by their variety. Now when they bloom I not only enjoy their aesthetic beauty, but I’m reminded me of the precious friend God has brought into my life.
My tulips are sprouting and any day my lilac bush should bloom.
Blessings on this book launch and the others you have coming this year!
Amanda Geaney
Thanks, Amanda! I love tulips. They grew in our front yard in Kansas when I was a kind. Then I went to college and my scholarship hall was on Lilac Lane, aptly named because of the lilac bushes that lined the sidewalks. Funny how certain flowers, like certain songs, remind you of particular people or places in your life.
Oh my, I do love flowers. All colors, shapes and sizes. They just fill my heart with joy. I love digging in the dirt and can’t wait for it to warm up here in Ohio. I pray that in spite of the chemo that I am going through, I will have the strength and energy to plant and dig and garden this year. 😎🌸💕
Will pray for your strength and stamina, Linda. Digging around in the dirt would be really therapeutic!
My favorite flowers are peonies. They are so beautiful, I just wish they would last longer. Looking forward to reading “Upon a Spring Breeze”.
Love Pansies, especially in the spring before all the other flowers can be planted and bloom!!!
For me flowers bring back special memories. Sweet peas on a trellis with bees buzzing about on our backyard porch. Giant ginger plants with exotic blooms gracing my aunt’s front yard. Poppy fields in Turkey where I lived as a child. Lantana next to the spigot at my grandma’s where we drank when it was hot from playing outside all day. Spidery chrysanthemums abloom at the festival in Japan when I was a teenager. But I think my favorite is the bluebonnet. They are survivors, not easy to grow, and need planning and preparation to bloom. But yet they appear most every spring filling fields, highway easements, and any other sunny spot. They persevere and we get to admire their beauty.
My favorite flowers are Roses.
Yellow roses are one of my favorites. I heard a song that talked about giving yellow roses to Momma yrs ago and I’ve loved yellow roses ever since.
I love all flowers💐🌸🌷🌼 and wild flowers. But if I have to choose only one, it would have to be Queen Anne’s Lace.
Beautiful flowers. Hard to pick just a few. I love spring, so here in Ohio daffodils are beautiful. Tulips, lilacs ( best smelling ) peonies, hydrangeas and impatiens in my summer pots. I could go on and on.
I wasn’t blessed with a “green thumb” but I admire lots of different flowers. If I had to pick my favorites, it would be daffodils and pansies. I especially like the pansies’ deep and vibrant colors😊
Thank you for offering this giveaway and wishing you much success with “Upon a Spring Breeze”🎉😊
My favorite flower is Hyacinth. They are a dainty flower with an amazing aroma. My grandmother used to have them by her gate when I was a child and that was the first smell you had entering her home. Next to them on her fence she had sweet peas another beautiful and aromatic flower.
Peonies are my favorite, but honestly I don’t think that I have ever met a flower that I didn’t love. Here in NC the first thing to pop out of the ground are the bright yellow daffodils, and I know spring has sprung, and I know my peonies will soon follow.
Hey Kelly! I’ve just finished posting images on FB of my jonquils, daffodils, and Calla lilies, speaking of my love of this time of year! Love and hugs . . . my favorite? Calla Lilies today 🙂 My husband and I have also spent a lot of time in nurseries–a favorite place! 🙂 BLESSINGS!
Peonies are my favorite if I have to pick one. Excited about your new book! Would love to win a copy! Thanks for this opportunity!
I love Lilacs. I love your cover.
I love Irises. At our house we had the variegated kind. Purple and white flowers. We also had yellow day lilies. I loved my 3 Lilac bushes. All these I now miss since we had to down size and have moved to a senior citizens community. We have a very nice apartment and we can set flowers out on our patio in the back and in the front also. I usually buy what ever the nursery has that I can arrange in a pot.
Thanks so much for the giveaway. I love the cover on your new book. Lots of flowers.
Spring is my favorite season. One of my favorite flowers are Tulips ( Pink). Thanks for a chance to win a book. Love the front cover of your book. Very springy and fresh.
Since I have wild wisteria and wild yellow jasmine winding through my trees–and they are so fragrant!–that would be my favorite 🙂
I love pansies, begonias, anything that is bright and flowers. As you know Texas summers are hot and somehow seeing a cool pink or purple makes me feel cooler. My parents taught me that gardening is fun and a great way to spice up your landscape. Your book cover is beautiful Kelly. Thank you for the chance to win a copy.
I’m hard pressed to name a favorite flower when I never met a flower I didn’t like. I am partial to marigolds, though. There was a large bed of marigolds at church last year. I asked the pastor if I could deadhead them. I dried them and harvested the seeds. I put them in little plastic bags with a label….Have a “Marigold” Christmas….spread the Word, plant a seed of faith! And gave them out at church on Christmas day. I also put them in my Christmas cards. It was so much fun!
I love daffodils such a great sign spring is coming.
I like flowers but I.m usually not good at keeping them alive. My husband has allergies so no flowers in the house. I like roses and carnations.
I’m not good at keeping them alive either!
Daisies are my favorite. I think that they are an underestimated flower. They last a long time and come in many beautiful colors. They remind me of my mother when I see them. Quiet yet strong. She gave me a bouquet at my high school graduation and I always think of her when I see them. I am so lucky to have have her as a role model. I know this is a bit sappy, but it’s true to me!
Not sappy at all. I had daisies at my wedding. I love them too.
I love daffodils, petunias, and geraniums. Hydrangeas, lilacs, roses, and begonias! Can you tell I love flowers?
It’s hard to pick, isn’t it? They’re also beautiful!
My favorite are roses and sunflowers. But love all flowers.
I am so thankful to see others loving my Pansies! It was love at first sight for me, as a young child to see the purple flowers w/smiley faces on them!
Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of your new book!
My favorite flowers are lilacs for how beautiful they smell and also pansies with their sweet faces, but I truly love all flowers.
My favorite flowers are sunflowers. I love how tall and majestic they are. Their bright yellow color is always so cheerful. I love watching them grow and seeing them in the local farm fields and at the farmers markets. Love your new book cover Kelly. Thanks for the giveaway chance.
Pansies and tulips are a favorite here for me
My absolute favorite flower is tulips! I grew up in the Midwest and now in AZ, so not many tulips here. I guess they are a sweet reminder of spring renewal and home. Gardening and working in the dirt is my therapy.
In the movie “You’ve Got Mail,” Meg Ryan says “I love daisies; they are friendly; don’t you think they are the friendliest flower?” Well yes daisies are pretty friendly flowers. I should say so. However, when you get a whiff of honeysuckles–it smells like warm rain. Lovely to look at; delightful to hold. My mother’s favorite song was “Honeysuckle Rose.”
Her mother’s name was Rose–so we ran around the house singing this song over and over again–bursting into giggles. Good memories of days gone by. Till we meet again in the promised land filled with wildflowers. Have a blessed day, Kelly. Natalie
After 14 inches of snow on Tuesday and blizzard warnings I’d just like to see a flower. That being said I love marigolds and pansies they are so vibrant.
I love Lilac flowers reminds me of Grandma house out in the country , Bleeding Heart, Iris , oh and my butterfly bush because that it attracts the little jewel of the hummingbird God has sent here on earth for us to enjoy
Geraniums are my favorite. Bloom all Summer & bring them in for Winter blooms 🙂
My favorite is lilacs. The place that I grew up and and still live with my husband have a beautiful one, smells wonderful. Also an open field of wild flowers will work.
I love all flowers and I love when my tiger lilies bloom. Sunflowers make me smile but really I just love flowers.
For sure patunias, tulips and carnations! I love lots of flowers. Can’t wait for spring to finally arrive! Gardening is my passion.
I love flowers. Pretty much all of them! Even dandelions. If I had to pick a few roses and snapdragons. Thank you so much for the giveaway!
I love sunflowers. We have a farm not far from my house and they have a couple fields of them. They are beautiful.
My favorite flowers are roses and red ones in particular.
Why? I love the way they smell but, probably because part of my name is Rose and this is the part of my name that I was named after my grandma. I was 9 yrs old when she died so I did. It know her that well but my parents used to tell me she was sweet and very patient.
I have always loved flowers, even if I didn’t quite inherit my mom’s green thumb (so u can sympathize with you!) Pansies are some of my favorites: they come in so many colors and they have such cheerful faces! They always make me smile and think of my mom’s flowers because she plants a lot of pansies every spring.
Roses are my favorite along with Daisies. grew up on the farm with lots of them in my grandmother and mothers flower beds. also we had a big bed of poppies around the flag pole.
Love sunflowers!🌻 They make me feel happy and hopeful!
I love lilacs!!! My yard has MANY bushes in all different colors. Also bleeding hearts are a spring favorite! I have them in pink and white.
My favorite are lilacs and carnations. Followed closely by roses and pansies. Lol. I love most flowers so hard to pick
I love wildflowers and sun flowers. I look forward to reading your new book.
I love lilacs and daffodils.
I love to plant flowers. Can’t wait for the weather to break here n Pa. Impatient are my favorite .
I love roses. Love watching the first green bud arrive in the Spring. The garden smells so wonderful when the roses start blooming.
My favorite flowers to plant are Gerber daisies. I love all colors but especially yellow. I love your books. God has given you an amazing talent. Thank you for using it to bless us.
Thank you. I appreciate the kind words!
I love zinnias and marigolds. They remind me of my grandmother’s garden when i was a little girl.
Lilacs are my favorite. But I like roses too. Really just about any flower will bring a smile. Thx for sharing.
My first outings alone after the first heart attack were to the nearest nurseries. Seems the evidence of new birth and ongoing life was balm to my spirit. We lived in a rental so I didn’t buy much but sure did walk those aisles and marvel at the beauty God had created. That was in the spring of 1988 and I still love the message of life in flowers. My favorite early ones are hyacinths, then forsythia and azaleas followed by the dogwood trees (prolific here in NC).
Thanks for giving me this opportunity to share what flowers mean to me.
Also thanks for the chance to win one of your books!
Sweet Williams make me think of my Grandma AnnaLee. Zinnias make me think of my Grandpa George. Touch me nots make me think of my Grandma Grace. I love dogwoods myself, but I know science does not consider the white petals to be flowers.
Verbenas are my favorite flower, especially red ones in a hanging pot or basket. What an awesome giveaway-thank you!
I adore all flowers. My favorite growing up were sunflowers. I loved how bright and beautiful and happy they are. When the seeds start to take form and become ripe and hardened the sunflower sometimes has a little smiley face. The seeds are so delicious too.
My now all time favorite is star lillies. My grandmother raised me in kentucky. She was diagnosed with lung and pancreatic cancer. She loved her garden so much. As the cancer progressed she got to where she couldn’t make it out into the yard anymore. So everyone pitched in and made her a beautiful garden oasis on the wrap around porch. So whenever she stepped out the door the garden was there brought to her. You could find us sitting in that garden swinging on the porch swing many a days. One day I brought down a star lily from Ohio when I came to visit, to add to her collecrion. She was instantly in love. She had never seen one before. From that day forward. Star lilies were her favorite and mine as well. Every time I see a star lily I think of her and how her eyes lit up and a smile crossed her face ear to ear.
Beautiful memories. ♡
I love the first flowers of Spring. Yellow flowers are my favorite, and around here they are the first to bloom, Daffodils, and even the Dandelions!
Thank You, for your wonderful stories.
I love Spring and my favorite flower is Lilacs.
For me it’s my lilac trees. While the blooms don’t last long, I love the fragrance and the beautiful delicate blossoms. My second most favorite would have to be Hydrangeas.
My favorite flower of spring is the hyacinth. I love to sit on our front porch swing and breathe in their heavenly scent. Lilacs are my favorite flowering bush. My favorite color, their scent is intoxicating, and they remind me of my Grandma. She had the most beautiful bushes I’ve ever seen. I can’t wait for my flowers to start blooming.
Spring has ginally come to South TexS, bringing with it a new promise of renewed life. With spring comes, the daffodils comes, all decked out in their lovely yellow dresses. They have been my favorite flower since I was a child. I do look forward to your new book, Kelly. You inspire me like the daffodils. God bless and keep you, my dear friend.
I love sunflowers! Such memories of how we had them line the fence in our backyard.
I never had a green thumb. I was so thankful when I moved into my new place to find the yard planted in my favorites. I love iris’. I have them in every color. And tulips. My very own coloring box from God.
I guess my favorite flowers is lavender. They just smell wonderful!
I love all kinds of flowers in my garden, but I think sunflowers are probably my favorite ones to grow. They are always a sweet ray of sunshine in my garden and beautiful to cut, too.
I love all flowers but I would have to say maybe tulips are my favorite. Thank you for this opportunity 🙂
I love the smell of lilacs. My yard has shade so Impatiens are what I put in a pot on the porch. The pink impatiens pictured in the blog post are beautiful. Do you know what they are called?
I love flowers in general. I think that black eyed susan are my favorites. They look like sunshine 🙂
Sunflowers and irises are my favorite flowers. Thanks for the chance to win.
Hello Kelly,
I love flowers and spring is my favorite time of the year, Azaleas bloom early and I love to see them, this year my wisteria also bloomed early.
I would love to read and review this book, amish stories are so rewarding to read.
thanks for sharing.
My favorites are daisies and sunflowers. They both hsve brilliant colors and remind me of new beginnings.
I love so many flowers but I especially love the spring flowers. The crocuses, tulips, and daffodils always brighten my garden come spring! I love to see them pop up through the ground and watch their progress. I also love pansies and portulaca because they remind me so much of my Grandma. Portulaca comes in so many amazing colours and they love the sun! (I’m really looking forward to reading your new book!)
My favorite are the wild daffodils. You don’t even have to plant them. They just pop up everywhere. Sure sign spring is on the way
I like daisies. Hope to win your beautiful book. Thanks for the opportunity.
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Peonies! And daisies. Though sadly I have a black thumb and can’t really grow anything. My children do pretty well. Looking forward to the new book!
Love the beautiful petunia’s plus the Easter Lillie’s would love this awesome giveaway because I love to read!
I like so many other of your readers love the spring garden so many beautiful flowers and bulbs I am writing from Sydney Australia and as you are planning your summer garden we are planning to plant our spring garden which we do next month We have had a very hot summer this last summer and our gardens have suffered with the heat I enjoy your books Kelly and look forward to reading your new book
Petunias are my favorite flower 🌺. Can’t wait to read the new book
I love my perennial gardens. They are a therapy garden for me. Hours go by and you are so busy grooming and watering. My Mother would come over and sit in her swing for a while and watch and then help and teach me. It is exciting in the Spring to see where they will spread and pop up the next year. I am gonna say Cosmos, as a flower I like. Thank You for the opportunity to win. I love getting swept away to another place reading Amish book!
I love flowers but don’t have much luck growing them. My favorite is roses though. I remember my Grandma always had a big beautiful flower garden. She always said – give me flowers while I’m alive not when I’m dead! I really enjoy your books! Thanks for the chance to win this giveaway!
I love most all flowers!
My grandmother made my first memories of flowers. She had dahlias, flox ? , moms, lots of others that I can’t think of right now!! I love Blue bonnets, moss, hydrangeas! I had hydrangeas out side my house for a long time! Then 3 different types of lillies! I loved them! Also my mother and my grandmother both had lots of Irises!
Sorry, I already left a comment. But I will try again! I love all flowers! I always think of my Mom and my Grandmother when I think of spring flowers! I love phlox, dahlias, Mums, lillies, irises, hydrangeas! Violets, lots of others!!
My favorite spring flowers are the lilacs in my backyard. They smell so fragrant!
I love all flowers, but I guess one of my favorites is petunias. There are so many varieties and colors. Love them in hanging baskets on my deck.
Thanks for the chance to win. God Bless.
The scenes from your book sound so wonderful! My favorite flower is the rose; I think because of the delightful fragrance. I especially like the old-fashioned roses. Isn’t God good to grace us with such beauty?! He certainly knows us and what we need.
My favorite is tulips and roses. I’m fixing a flower garden in memory of my son and daughter that I lost.
I love flowers! Sunflowers are one of my favorite!
Thank you for the opportunity to win! The book looks amazing!
Lilacs, my mother had a bush outside her kitchen window, we would wash the dishes and smell the fragrance of the lilacs in the spring time when it bloomed. The home we bought in Az has one on the side of the house and when it blooms I think of my mom, and know she is watching over us. The smell is over powering.
I love roses and all things purple. God has given us such beauty to enjoy..
Favorite flower: black-eyed Susans!
My favorite flower is the dandelion. I like it when the lawn is covered with them.
Love all flowers but Daffodils are my favorite.
I love daisies, white and black eyed Susan’s!
I really love the cover of this book. Hoping to win a copy.
I love all kinds of flowers. Tulips are my favorite though.
Upon a Spring Breeze!!! YaY!
So many memories of my father’s flowers wherever we lived he would sow them. Pansies, petunias, johnny jump-ups, morning glories, four o’clocks, moon flowers, lilacs… My favorite outside our dining room window would be our hydrangeas. I would love to have climbing wisteria to our top floor windows… and, your story in my hands. Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House
I love all flowes but my favorite is red roses! Thanks for the giveaway. Love your books.
ciao,
thank you for the opportunity to win seeds and book, tooo kind!
my favourite flowers are gerbera and tulip, love to read on my balcony or park with flowers with their colors and smell.
ciao martaA
My favorite flowers are hyacynths. I love their smell!!
I love roses and Gerber daisies as well as buttercups and lilacs!
I love lilacs as the smell is always in the breeze.
I love lilacs! There are different colors and they smell wonderful! Thank you for the chance to win!
I like SO many flowers, but only live ones. I don’t like gifts of flowers. Reminds me too much of a funeral. Not fond of Gladiolas. I call them “sad”iolas because funeral arrangements used to have them.
I love Hyacinths and roses. Lilac is awesome too.
I love wild violets and forget me nots.
Any flowers are welcome!