Lilacs! Lavender! Plants in general. About how much time, care, attention to detail went into planning the landscaping here. When one thing isn't in bloom something else is so we're never without at least a little color all year long, and most of the year there's a lot. Last year I thought the plants close to me might be lilac but it was too soon to tell. It's only this year they came to full bloom leaving no doubt about it.
I'm happy because both are some of my favorite flowers. I didn't count all the lavender near us but did inventory the lilac. There are fifteen bushes, five along one side of the building, five around the corner on our side of the street and an additional five across the street from those. My apartment is on the corner so I'm surrounded! I can see some out every window.
It wasn't until I'd been here awhile that I discovered something wasn't wrong with the lavender, it's just a different variety than I was familiar with. It's only this year the lilac came to full bloom, I could tell for certain it's lilac. Again just a different variety than what I'm used to seeing. I think the varieties of both might have been chosen because they're on the smaller side perfect for the flower beds here.
Anyhow I'm going to do a little research on those as well as some of the other plants around us. Some have flowered but I just don't recognize, others look perhaps immature, like it still might be too early to tell. I need to find out when gardenia start to scent, and for how long. The plan was to put some out on the balcony at some point but don't want two such strong scents hitting full force all at once.
Gardenia are my favorite flower but I've never seen plants here, only blooms from the florist. Hopefully both won't bloom, scent their heaviest at the same time. The the gardenia and lilac. Surprising to me the lavender doesn't really smell so won't clash, overpower. Anyhow that's what has been on mind the most this morning. Landscaping, mostly flowers but also trees a little bit too.
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