Hi everyone! It’s Millie & Walter here. We’re joining a special Nature Friday and helping Marg celebrate her birthday. Marg is a special Blogville friend who helps lots of kitties. We are going to show you some of our early spring flowers.
Let’s see what’s blooming in our yard.
We have two different color of witch hazel bushes in our yard. Since this is the first thing that blooms in our yard the insects flock to it for nutrition.
A honey bee works on the yellow witch hazel.
Even the flies were working the witch hazel.
Here is a little video of the bees and flies enjoying the witch hazel.
If you can’t see the video you can go here to view it.
There is also an orange version of witch hazel.
Orange witch hazel
The only other flower we have blooming right now are our Chionodoxa bulbs.
Blue Chionodoxa
White Chionodoxa
These little flowers are all around a little mound at the back of the yard where we had to cut down an ash tree.
The ash tree stump is where we did our modeling for these pictures.
Blue Chionodoxa
We hope Marg and all of our visitors enjoyed seeing some of the flowers we are lucky to have blooming so far. If you want to add your birthday wishes to Marg you can pop over to the Zoolatry blog and leave your comments there. As usual we’re way behind many of our friends in the flowers that are blooming in our yard but there are some daffodils that are springing up out of the ground and may be blooming soon.
We are joining the LLB Gang for their Nature Friday Blog Hop. You should pop over to their blog to see all the other posts.
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Hari OM
Oh what beatiousmous!!! thank you for bringing it to us. Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
Flowers, what flowers we only had eyes for Millie and Walter. ~Fenris & Tuiren
The rest of us are rather fond of the Chionodoxa bulbs, they look really delicate and we don’t have them here. We have something called Chinese Witch Hazel that blooms all year, it’s hot pink we like your yellow version and think it will grow down here so Mom is going to go hunting for it.
Millie and Walter…OMDs your flowers are gorgeous BUT your selfies are stunning!! Purrect angles and profiles
Hugs Cecilia
Beautiful pups with beautiful flowers for that lovely lady Marg. We love the witch hazel.
Happy Birthday to our dear friend, Marg.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
Those are very special things for every critters pal Marg!
What a beautiful series of photos! Sam
the Chionodoxa is gorgeous! I have never seen it before. What a beautiful birthday post for Marg, the best Cat Lady EVER! We hope you guys and your family has a marvellously happy week!
I had no idea what witch hazel looked like, let alone that they flowered!
Our weeping cherry tree is a-buzz with bees, and tons of other insects!
Marg sure is one of a kind, a very special lady!
Your flowers sure are beautiful!
Marg will enjoy them so much!
Happy Birthday to our friend, Marg!!
That’s a super post – love the witch hazel and the chionodoxa. And of course the handsome pups!
Marg will love your beautiful flowers and especially the gorgeous photos of the two of you, Millie and Walter!
Beautiful flowers and fantastic models as usual
I very much enjoyed the video and the flowers, and Beau would love to hear that witch hazel hum with the bees… best of all are the two Canine Models. Pawfection is what those photos are… both of you made me smile really big just looking at your faces.
You two look like professional models on that ash tree stump. Mom wonders why flowers can have simpler names, like lily and dandelion and violet. XOX Lucy and Xena
It must be wonderful to spend time in such a lovely yard …
thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers for Marg today!
We’ve had a dearth of honey bees around our area for the last couple years. There are plenty of bumblebees, though. They’ve been buzzing around the puppy willows along with all kinds of small wasps and flies. We’re going to try to do some yard work this weekend as long as the warm weather lasts.
Oh, and happy belated birthday to Marg!
Lulu: “Tree stumps are good platforms for modeling ― I’ve seen pictures of my brother Tucker, who I never met, sitting on one over 20 years ago, and it made him look like a statue in a museum!”
I’m thinking of planting a native witchhazel. I enjoyed your photos and the little vid.
Your witch hazel bushes are fabulous (and so are the spring bulbs). Always wondered what witch hazel looked like. Thanks for sharing such cool images for Miss Marg’s birthday.
What pretty spring flowers. It must really be spring there! I’d never seen witch hazel before! And, of course you pups look fabulous!
Hi friends, Ojo here! First of all you both look very lovely and handsome! Second I have never seen or smelled witch hazel before, I don’t think we have it where I live! Happy spring, friends!