Everyone seems to be posting flowers and I want to get in on the fun. I promise, I'll do my Savannah and Charleston pictures -- just as soon as I finish half a dozen reports. But I don't have to think about where the flowers are.

This is my orchid. It's the second year it's bloomed. It sits on a table in the bedroom most of the year, getting filtered morning sun. I water it when I think about it, which isn't very often. I'm sure if I ever fed it or believed that I had anything to do with it blooming, it would wither up.

This is my very happy hibiscus hedge. It's very sneaky -- it always knows when I want to prune it and puts out hundreds of buds, well aware that I can't bear to cut off the flowers.

My border is sweet alyssum, ageratum and snapdragons. Some of the plants just dry up and I couldn't figure it out until I took these pictures and realized something -- probably an armadillo -- is digging big holes in my beds and uprooting some of my plants.

Passion vine. I have to untangle it from my other plants every few days.

The magnolia is coming into bloom.

So is the oleander.

And the esperanza, which we call Texas Bells.

The sage is flowering.

Every spring, the yellow flowers -- coreopsis, maybe? -- take over the garden.

And the agapanthus (Lily of the Nile) is just about to burst into bloom.

The allemanda has bloomed better the last two years since I haven't had time to feed it. But I would like to find time to tie it up to the trellis.

You may have noticed that there's a lot of yellow flowers (and I didn't show you everything.) If it's yellow and I put it in the ground, it goes beserk. If it's red, it tends to do well. Any other color, and it's an iffy proposition. I don't know why. I would like to have a more color balanced yard, but the flowers seem to know what they like.