Stories Collected While Living in France

French la Vie

Mother Nature Climbs into Bed

Watering-can

Gardening and I have a special relationship.

We do well together I stand by admiring and it grows. Happily. Until Mother Nature comes in and rains on our parade. She is a good source to know; Nurturing, faithful and abundant in her generosity. Though every now and then she throws a fit…like yesterday.

The irises that rose to the sun, waving tall with their delicate blooms were flatten to the ground with yesterday's rain and wind.

Irises

Thankfully I have a peekaboo photo of their moment before doom.

Roses-growing

This is my bedroom window, it faces south. The roses that have climbed our outside wall have become a nature curtain. Waking up to this every morning certainly redeems Mother Nature's outburst yesterday.

Through-the-window

The perfume is intoxicating. Sleeping in wonderland. Dreaming of Romeo next door, err I should say next to me.

Roses-climbing

Soon they will be climbing into bed with us… oh Mother Nature you wild thing!

What is your favorite flower?

Comments

55 responses to “Mother Nature Climbs into Bed”

  1. Julienne

    peony…..shasta daisy….ranunculus….
    hydrangea…rose…daffodil…oh dear do I actually have to pick one?!!!!

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  2. Karen

    I love beachroses.. and yours are just climbers are breathtaking.. lucky to have them right outside your window. I long for a visit to Provence… will get there someday.

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  3. Jackie

    Peonies! We grow them (it’s the “farm” in Bliss Farm Antiques. Last year we cut 6,000 flowers in 10 days…I say we, I should say He (that would be my husband.)
    jackie
    bliss farm antiques

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  4. kathleen

    What a room with a view!Lovely!

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  5. splendid

    i love gardenias. my grandmother had an incredible plant that lived in our basement all winter and on the solarium the rest of the time…i remember walking into the house and the scent overtaking me,

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  6. Kathryn

    What beautiful photos, mother nature is the best. As for flowers I love daffodils and the big colorful daisy’s because they make me smile.

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  7. Colette

    Coucou…time to wake up sleeping Beauty!… you lucky princess!you get to wake up every day to your rose vine.
    thank you for sharing. I’m dreaming….Colette-Afrique du Sud

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  8. Karon

    Old fashioned heavily scented roses, the softly coloured types that get all overblown, blousy and fall apart. The smell heavenly and look so beautiful at every step of their lives.
    A joy to behold.
    Karon

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  9. Jeanne

    Fabulous
    Mary Mary Quite contrary how does your garden grow
    Love all you share

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  10. Gina Johnson

    I would never leave my bedroom if I had that view and those roses. Absolutely beyond lovely!

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  11. Bev

    Tulips and impatients (which are called Maria sem graca in Portuguese because they grow everywhere!).

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  12. Elizabeth

    The picture of your bedroom window looks like a dream – but is better than a dream because there is a beautiful scent flowing into the room. I might just have to plant roses outside my bedroom window now!

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  13. Chris Wittmann

    Right now, outside my bedroom window is a huge lilac tree I planted before we even made settlement on our house 30 years ago. It towers above the roof line and oh how it sends out wafts of perfume! To pick just one favorite flower would be too hard. I love the heirloom roses I’ve planted, wow what fragrance…and the daffodils, thousands of them….but maybe it’s the very fragrant lily of the valley, competeing with those lilacs, that say “spring” more than any other New England flower.

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  14. Vicki

    Are you sure you don’t live in a movie?? What a perfect view…I adore lilacs, lilly of the valley and hydrangeas!!!

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  15. Julie Loeschke

    Because of the high altitude and the short grown season( it’s 13 degrees F. here this am),gardening is a real challenge. But, fortunately my favorite, the pansy,does well here.

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  16. Judy O

    Your roses outside your bedroom window are beautiful. Outside my bedroom window is a lilac bush. I have white and purple in my yard.
    The purple is the state flower of New Hampshire. My father loved lilacs and when they bloom every May I think of him.

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  17. marlis

    wow that’s like picking your favorite color…
    freesia, lilacs, fucshia

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  18. Joni

    GORGEOUS curtain!!! What beauty and loveliness to awake to in the morning. Beautiful photos,
    Joni

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  19. dancing kitchen

    I’m an iris girl through and through.

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  20. Nancy from Mass

    Daisies. Daisies are definitely my favorite flower. Although, I do love the Star of David that grows like crazy all over the yard. (No, Hubby, they are not a weed!) I love how they close up at night and open again in the morning. Too bad they don’t last all summer.

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  21. Lorelei Lane

    Oolala! To have a rose curtain…. a dream. My favorite flowers are daffodils – pure spring sunshine. Remember the scene from Dr. Zhivago??? I also adore tulips, roses, hydrangeas, lilacs, lily-of the-valley, and moss roses (portulaca)…. so many, many flowers..

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  22. lifeonthecutoff

    Luscious pictures and what a wonderful curtain for your window!
    I could no more name my favorite flower than my favorite child. Right now, the tree peonies are putting on a show trying to upstage the lilies of the valley, whose fragrance is intoxicating . . . then there are the rugosa roses that will start soon. Oh my!

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  23. AmyKortuem

    If that was the view from my bedroom window I would NEVER, EVER get out of bed! Spring in Minnesota has been cruel this year – my little bleeding hearts and beautiful tulips are so wind-whipped I just want to cry. But the scented petals falling down from the apple trees in the breeze make such a beautiful carpet on the ground. I feel almost like a princess when I’m out running!
    My favorite flowers change with the seasons: grape hyacinth, Gronewald tulips, lilacs, peonies, iris, roses, double impatiens, hydrangea…

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  24. Kathie B.

    California poppies. You can guess why :-)))
    BTW, I was positively gob-smacked the first time I saw them in the Azores — although, upon reflection, it made perfect sense, given the similar climate and the likelihood that the seeds were either gifts or souvenirs from trips to the US. And so apt, considering how many Azorean emigrants have settled in the Golden State in more than a century-and-a-half!

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  25. Beverly

    How can you only pick one from so many?
    Call me greedy, but all varieties of flowers are my favourites!

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  26. caren

    Irises were always a favorite but I love blue hydrangeas. Such a wonderful view you have.

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  27. Kathie B.

    Actually, I can’t think of any flower I dislike (since I don’t think poison oak and poison ivy have blossoms, do they?).

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  28. shelley@decoragain.blogspot.com

    Sunflowers!

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  29. AmandaMay

    Your window is a dream! Right now the crabapples are blooming on our street, beautiful and pink and I catch that amazing blossoming smell every so often. But to sleep enveloped in it? Heaven!
    I am really smitten with ranunculus right now, but I have never actually seen them in person. And lily of the valley… lilacs… marigolds… Spring is just so amazing!!

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  30. cynthia Wolff @Beatenheart

    What a beautiful turn of phrase, “soon they will be climbing into bed with us…” lovely and romantic. Faves are Lilacs, peonies, lily of the Valley none of which grow in Southern California…Of course I love roses and have a huge climber called “Cecil Brunner” which grows outside my kitchen window. but i adore Peonies and thats the truth…I have loads of Camelia bushes which grow like crazy here but I am not that fond of them…they don’t last in a vase, don’t have a fragrance and are messy…I have a ton of star jasmine…I must have planted about 30 of those and they are vining and flowering all over right now.

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  31. Marilyn

    The roses do look like they will soon be climbing into bed with you, just beautiful.
    I love so many different flowers from daffodils, tulips, and lilacs in the Spring, then soon to show there beautiful faces will be roses. Summer sunshine is made more sunny with sunflowers, then comes Fall with the beautiful golden colors of chrysanthemums.

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  32. Brenda L from TN

    Irises,roses,peonies,hydrangeas,gardenias,camillias,lillacs,lily of the valley, love them all…my uncle raised camillias in his greenhouse…after he and his wife died I inherited their house,greenhouse and cat. One day I was in the back yard and noticed something white in the greenhouse so I went down to see what it was. When I opened the door I was stunned to see all of the camillias in bloom! They hadn’t been watered in at least 3 yrs. so I couldn’t believe my eyes! They were beautiful…the front and back yard is full of camillias…all red or pink…but what was in the greenhouse was white with pink stripes or white with red stripes or pink with white stripes…my uncle and my mother were raised in south GA and they had an uncle that owned a nursery down there and I guess my uncle wanted some of south GA in his yard too. I can only guess there is underground water or maybe the roof leaks…there are even birds in neats in there so I guess there must be a hole somewhere…but they are beautiful…just wish they were in front yard for all to enjoy…along with the bed of Irises and tulips.

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  33. Cara

    Your roses and irises are lovely. What a glorius thing to wake up to.
    The gardenia in my living room is in full bloom right now. There’s no escaping its fragrance.

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  34. Patt

    Peonies, Pink ones, My MIL grew then in Utah. I can never get them to grow like hers. Any flower, any colour makes me a happy girl.

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  35. Ida from South Africa

    ~ Gerbera – aka Barberton Daisies – red ones ~
    in a bouquet
    ~ with flowers of all colours ~

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  36. Throughthemilkhousedoor

    Tuberose
    Peony
    Tulip
    Oh My

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  37. Mardog

    Sweet peas (picking them now by the bundles)
    Gardenias
    Sunflowers

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  38. Star

    My broad philosophy regarding flowers: love the one you’re with. 🙂
    I love peonies, old roses that haven’t had the smell bred out of them, sweet peas, anemones, lavender, nasturtiums, and on and one. Basically I love whatever is blooming.

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  39. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    If I HAVE to pick a favorite flower, it would be the Hydrangea followed by the various types of Lavenders. Your climbing rose vine is fabulous! We have a very full pink jasmine at the end of our front porch that is climbing the side fence; the aroma is almost overpowering.

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  40. Marie-Noëlle

    I LOVE this post !!! I LOVE it !!!
    I LOVE your pictures ! I LOVE them !!!
    Hydrangea
    Clematis
    Passiflore

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  41. mindi

    I love peony, hydrangea, white orchid and right now I really like my iceburg roses. So fluffy, frilly and fun!

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  42. Michelle homer

    “favorite flower” Just one???????????????
    my favorite(s) are the one’s in bloom now lilly of the valley, pansies, violets, Lilacs, daffodils, tiny blue forgetmenots, tulips and gorgeous purple wisteria hanging from my porch.
    Then my favorite(s) will be roses, roses and more roses, blooming next to my peonies and more peonies,Ladies mantle and lots of clematis climbing everywhere.
    Then sunflowers, zinias, and bachelor buttons.
    I loved your blog and as always your beautiful photographs.

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  43. Sara

    I curtain of roses outside your window?! Heavenly. My favorite flower is blue dephinium.

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  44. carol

    If I had to pick just one, it would be peonies. Oh, the smell takes me right back to my childhood! My mother had beautiful flowers, everywhere. We always had fresh ones from our yard. She is unable to work flower beds anymore, and I am too far away to do it for her. Your bedroom view is spectacular…ah, roses wafting through your bedroom window and Prince Charming next to you… How do you ever leave the bedroom? Your posts are beautiful, so very beautiful. I hope to see Provence up close and personal one day.

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  45. bee

    I can’t get roses to grow like yours. Beautiful.
    Betsy

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  46. Kimberly

    freesia! the smell is the best! blessings, Kimberly

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  47. joanne nixon

    i love the lilacs for their shape, color and scent…..the roses for their heady perfume…..the peonies for their sheer loveliness and the lilies of the valley and other lilies that carry the heady scent of sweet promise….then there is the shy violas….the brave pansies…the regal snapdragons and the royalty of the geraniums….vincas and globe amaranth stand up to our intense heat…rosemary is strong and feisty….lisianthus is regal and beautiful and none can charm me more than queen anne’s lace. lavendar soothes me….;and sunflowers put a smile upon my face….how could just one particular fleur satisfy my soul?

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  48. Catalina

    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOVE it! and the colours! so you! 😉
    xoxo

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  49. jend’isère

    Singling out any flower from the composition of an ideal bouquet arouses varied sensations. The red amarylis is my simple lone champion. Majestic pride bursts before our eyes from a humble bulb. The splash of colour towers over me ever winter.

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  50. Alexis

    Wow, I want a window with roses outside and a view like that. 🙂

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  51. jend’isère

    “I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
    This made me realise you may have been referring to a flower bed as well as your own.

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  52. Sherry

    Corey, I have a passion for climbing clematis but they don’t thrive in my conditions. I dream of your window roses! What a lovely scene and scent for your bedroom. How romantic for you and Romeo. I live vicariously thru your posts…Sherry

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  53. Maura @ Lilac Lane Cottage

    Oh goodness Corey…I love Hydrengeas….peonys…climbing roses with clematis growing up it…you did say more than one didn’t you?
    Have a wonderful afternoon
    Maura

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  54. Alexandra

    daisies and daffodils for sure are my favorite flowers. what a beautiful bedroom window view you have there!

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  55. Karinka Calhoun

    Cornflowers which I think are called Bleuets in French–they’re the most gorgeous color of deep purple-blue almost like a iris blue. I bought some at the florist around the corner from the Saturday morning brocante last time I was in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. They lasted for days while I shlepped them from hotel to hotel in a beautiful pottery vase I bought at the market. Heavenly!

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