Spring Flowers from the Garden

The back garden is finally starting to bloom. For the month of May, the weather has been cool, damp and unsettled. This has meant that working in the garden has been slow. It is now the last few days in May and today it looks like we might have sun all day. At 8:00 am it is 60 degrees and we hope it will warm up today so that we can enjoy the garden. My husband has planted many, varied perennials and most are plants that I can cut blooms from, to bring inside. This is my first arrangement of the season. The yellow and orange gerbera daisies were just planted, along with the mauve columbine. Those sprays of lily of the valley are the first to bloom. This is the week for lilacs, so you can see some of those in the bouquet too. This bouquet is truly a Spring Bouquet, fresh from my garden. It is painted on an 11x14 masonite board.