There’s no place like beautiful Ontario in spring.
- There’s no place like this where I’ve been
- There’s no dream like this that I’ve seen
- And there’s no home like this
- No other place like this for me.
- You’re my place to know
- You’re my place to go
- You’re my place to see
- You’re my place to be
- There’s nothing in this world
- There’s nothing like you
Magnolia
“I’ve always loved magnolia trees and their blooms—there’s something so beautiful about a magnolia blossom. It demands attention, and you can’t help but love those big, creamy petals and that fragrant smell.” ~ Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
Scilla
These stunning early spring flowers produce waves of emerald-green and bright-blue colours. They add a new dimension of spring beauty to gardens and landscapes.
Tulips & Daffodils
“The tulip’s petals shine in dew, all beautiful, but none alike” ~ James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root
“I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.” ~ Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
- “Within my heart a garden grows,
- wild with violets and fragrant rose.
- bright daffodils line the narrow path,
- my footsteps silent as i pass.
- sweet tulips nod their heads in rest;
- i kneel in prayer to seek gods best.”
- ~ Robin Jones Gunn
Dandelions
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
“Dandelions are just friendly little weeds who only want to be loved like flowers.” ~ Heather Babcock
Lily-of-the-Valley
“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
“Where scattered wild the Lily of the Vale; its balmy essence breathes.” ~ James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 445.
- “And the Naiad-like lily of the vale,
- Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale,
- That the light of its tremulous bells is seen,
- Through their pavilions of tender green”
- ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant, Part I.
Lilac
“Lilacs are May in essence.” ~ Jean Hersey
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.” ~ Victor Hugo
Apple Tree
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” ~ Martin Luther
“Cling, swing, spring, sing, swing up into the apple tree.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
- Whether the summer clothe the general earth
- With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
- Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
- Of mossy apple tree”
- ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
