Azaleas in Bloom- Nothing More Beautiful!

 

What a joy these days to pull into our driveway, greeted by gorgeous azaleas 🌺 in full glory! Pink, red, pinkish red, reddish pink, salmon, white- such a rainbow of colors. 

The view from our front porch is also a show stopper. Our azalea shrubs have been a harbinger of spring during the many years we have lived here. 

And it never gets old! 

In early March, some of the long-dormant shrubs came to life. I took this photo in our backyard on March 7. The first day of spring was still two weeks away. 

This was March 11 in the front yard. The buds are formed, soon to pop open like the flower on the right. 

Survival of the Sago Palms!

It seems like it took forever but Alesia and I are so pleased that the Sago Palms that decorate our front yard area are back and as beautiful as ever- if not more so considering what happened to them in January.

On January 3, the Charleston area had a very rare heavy snowfall. We had five inches or so at our house.  See my Winter Storm Grayson post here.

While beautiful in many ways, we didn't realize how hard the snow would be on our lovely Sago Palms.