This is a prized rhododendron I inherited from my grandmother’s garden. Grandma was a godly woman who I miss greatly even though she has been gone since 1986. This flower reminds me of the great cloud of saintly witnesses that have gone before us to help make us what we are. I will be overjoyed to see  her in the first resurrection!

This azalea that adorns the front of my house is one giant bloom. May we be like this azalea always smiling and full of joy despite the cold, wet and cloudy circumstances life throws at us.

This pieris Japonica (commonly called an andromeda or lily of the valley shrub) come to us a gift from its native Japan. Yehovah’s loving gifts to brighten our lives come to us from far and near. Let us be ever grateful for his loving compassion and mercy!

This is my happy-faced pansy. It always seems to be smiling at passersby. Pansies get a bad rap! They’re not as frail as they look, but are one of the hardiest plants in the garden being able to withstand the winter cold quite easily. They’re also always smiling and happy. This one came up volunteer from seed. There’s nothing that’s pansy about pansies!

I love the hardy primroses that come in all sorts of gay colors to cheer up the garden (and me too!) during the closing days of the wet, bleak, gray and cold winter season. When we look around us at Yehovah’s creations, we can always find some loving gift from him to brighten our day.

Can’t remember the name of this flower. Just like when it comes to the Bible, I know a lot, but not everything! This no name flower teaches us to be humble and teachable like children, for none of us knows it all.

I salvaged this pink dogwood from a client who paid me to get rid of it. It now has a new home chez moi! Yehovah has salvaged us all spiritually and wants to give us a new home in his eternal kingdom. HalleluYah!

Pink dogwood flower close up. Solomon eat your heart out! This is how Yehvoah views each of us. Though part of greater redeemed Israel, each  of us is a unique flower in the eyes of our loving Heavenly Father.

A wood hyacinth declaring the glory of Yehovah in its own way!

The bleeding heart is a wild native to our region. Don’t eat this plant; its name speaks of its lethal nature. Its beauty belies its deadliness—just like sin!

Laurustinus is an ornamental shrub that when it blooms is a mass of fragrant flowers. May Yehovah make his face to shine upon us, so that we can reflect his love and beauty to the world around us like this plant!

Finally, wild mustard has many spiritual lessons to teach us. It  grows everywhere around here (from roadside ditches to meadows) as a wild weed and  is highly edible and nutritious. In mild winters, it will bloom all season and continue blooming well into spring. I planted these next to the bright yellow fire hydrant that “adorns” the front of our house. When in bloom, the wild mustard hides this necessary eyesore. That’s called taking your lemons and making lemonade. We have to do that with the trying and nettlesome difficulties that face us in life, don’t we? Moreover, Yehovah found each of us in the highways and byways of this world and  transplanted us into his garden to bloom and grow for him for his glory and joy. This is one of my favorite flowers. One man’s weed or junk is another man’s treasure. To the world, we may be junk because of what we believe, Who we serve and what live out, but to Yehovah, the saints are his peculiar and priceless treasure because we’ve been bought with Yeshua’s precious blood! Baruch hashem Yehovah!