Besides roses, I love tulips and magnolia flowers. I have loved tulips since I was very young. They were the only flower I could draw! I have always wanted to plant a whole mess of them in my yard but I never managed to buy them in time or got around to doing it. So this year, I bought a few bags. Not enough to make a whole mess like I want, but a few. They started growing this week and two days ago the first flowers appeared. I had to go take a picture of them just in case the cold weather expected to come our way ruins them!

I did manage to plant a magnolia tree in the front yard when we first moved into this place. It hasn't flowered yet. Maybe this summer!

* One year when I was teaching school, I planted a whole bunch of tulips outside our portable building. It was such a yucky building that anything was an improvement. I wonder how those tulips are doing now... 

*I also requested tulips to be in my wedding bouquet when I got married. My dear friend saw my bouquet before I did and sent it back to the florist! There were absolutely no tulips in the arrangement. Tulips were hard to find at the time for some reason and they came up with a few "pretend" tulips -not what I had ordered but the bouquet was still beautiful. 

Here are my beauties! 

P.S. Notice the ugly ground, dead leaves and sticks? I really need to get out, mulch and do some spring sprucing up! Anyone want to help?