Roses in my Garden | DFW, TX Photographer

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." -Katharine Lee Bates

Roses are my favorite flower followed by the tulip.  While I haven't had as much time to tend to my rose gardens as in the past, they sure make beautiful blooms!

Sweet Surrender

 Lilian Austin

 Rainbow's End Miniture Rose

 Iceburg

Aloha

Clematis-Rose Companion

Spring Color | Flower Mound Photographer

I have many hobbies in my life including gardening, although now with 2 preschoolers and running 2 businesses I don't have as much time for gardening.  My favorite season is Spring especially the month of April when my roses are in full bloom!

Vase of clippings, a much stronger fragrance than florist roses.

 

Clematis (AKA rose companion)

 

My 2nd favorite flower next to roses.

Tulips, a different view.

One of my garden helpers, she went to a birthday party that included a face painter.

 

April showers bring May flowers!

Spring has Sprung! | DFW area photographer

My favorite season of the year has arrived!  Leaves are sprouting, buds are forming and opening into a beautiful array of color.

Last week my 2 daughters and I met up with my best friend and her 4 children and headed to Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum.  It's been a few years since we last went together and my oldest was only a few months old back then.  I had plans on attempting "Easter Portraits" but that plan failed!  The children just had too much fun running around and the ground was still moist from recent rain, so we just let them be children.

Tulips are my 2nd favorite flower next to roses.

Roses in Bloom | Flower Mound, TX Photographer

When I was a little girl we lived next door to Eloise and Bill, an older couple who took me in as their extra grandchild.  All of my grandparents lived out of state so it was nice to have them around.  One Summer when I was around the age of 5 or 6, they planted an oak tree the same height as me and took a photo of me standing next to it.  Of course the oak tree quickly out grew me.  Eloise would take me to her backyard where she grew beautiful roses.  I would walk around and sniff each bloom while she tended to them.  I decided then that when I grew up I would grow beautiful roses in my yard too.  Well I made that dream come true after I graduated college, first in containers until I owned my 1st home.  When my husband and I first married and bought our home that was my 1st priority, to build a rose garden.  I now grow over 25 roses, here are a few blooming this Spring.

David Austin's "Pat Austin"

David Austin's "Lilian Austin" 

Sentimental

Sombreuil

Veterans Honor, this one is in memory of my grandfather who served in WWII

Sweet Surrender

Not a rose but a companion for roses-Clamatis

Wild Flowers | Flower Mound, TX Photographer

Have I mentioned Spring being my favorite season of the year?  I love flowers and gardening.  I also love wild flowers blooming off the roadways, it brings color and life after Winter.

Indian Paintbrush/Texas Paintbrush





Rocky Mountain Pensternon?






Indian Blanket/Fire Wheel

Spring in Texas | Flower Mound, TX Photographer

I love Spring, it's my favorite time of the year other than suffering from seasonal allergies. So far I haven't been hit with them yet but my poor older daughter has been. It hasn't stopped us from enjoying the "new life" of the season. Gardening is another passion of mine other than photography and children. Here are some of my favorites to share!


Texas Bluebonnets




My oldest daughter


Ladybanks




Roses