The first of the 6 asiatic lillies bloomed today! It's a stargazer - my favorite, the kind that filled my wedding bouquet. How appropriate - next week is our anniversary.
"...it seems to express an important truth about the gardener's life as opposed to the lives of other people -- the fact that each new year is, ipso facto, more startling and more rich in beauty than the one that preceded it." Beverley Nichols, from "Merry Hall"