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Hi everyone, welcome to my blog post on the Authors in Bloom blog hop. So happy to have you here. I love gardening, going seed shopping, wandering down the aisles of the greenhouses and looking at the flowers. It’s one of my absolute favorite things to do. 🙂

So let’s see, a gardening tip…

this one I learned straight from my dad who has a great green thumb. When planting plants you’ve purchased, dig a well shaped hole for the plant, fill to top with water, let water soak in, place plant and fill back in with dirt and pat dirt firmly around the plant and water again. Don’t forget to fertilize with a good liquid fertilizer to help stimulate the roots. 🙂

For a chance to win my personal giveaway of an ebook copy of IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES, share a gardening tip of your own or one of your favorite types of plants or flowers. I admit I have a huge deep love for fuschias. They are one of my absolute favorites.

Here’s the blurb and a bit of an excerpt from IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES:

Josh Collins has the perfect life—a beautiful girlfriend and a baby on the way, until an accident takes his life and he’s suddenly forced to fight for everything and everyone he loves.

Alone and pregnant, Avery is suddenly faced with a painful new reality. Life without the man she loves is turbulent. Nothing feels the same any more without him and she finds herself facing the unimaginable.

With his newfound guide Gabriel, Josh is forced to learn what happens IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES.

 

Excerpt:

Avery walked over to the coffee table and set the box down. She lifted the top to find two dozen of her favorite peach roses nestled in tissue paper. Their sweet fragrance suddenly filled the room. As she reached for the card, that familiar coolness appeared behind her once again.

Happy fourth anniversary. Love you forever, Josh.

She could almost hear his voice in her ear, reading the words right along with her.

She dropped the card back inside the box, feeling unnerved. Her fingers moved up the stems of the roses, the surprising chill of the fresh stems on her fingertips helping her calm down.

“You never did tell me what we were going to do today,” she said, as if she expected him to answer. Like he was right there with her, about to walk out of the kitchen with two glasses of lemonade in hand, his baseball cap on his head, his nose sunburned from too much time working in the yard.

“It was going to be a surprise.” He moved around to stand beside her. He desperately wanted to reach out, to push that strand of hair back behind her ear so he could see her face unobstructed. He was desperate for her to feel him, really feel him, and not have to fool himself into thinking that some part of her sensed he was there, that whatever their connection was, it hadn’t been completely severed. That if he just held out hope long enough…

She reached up, brushing the strand of hair out of her face before taking one of the roses out of the box.

“You know, I wanted to wait until today to tell you about the baby. Then you walked in when I had that pillow under my shirt…” She laughed softly, inhaling the scent of the rose before pressing it lightly against her cheek, a slow smile crossing her face in memory. “And I tried telling you I was just stretching the shirt because it shrank in the wash…you had this dumbstruck expression on your face, and I said I think there’s something I have to tell you, and I called you Daddy.”

He nodded, flashing back to that moment. “And I said, are you kidding me?”

“I guess it’s good I told you then. You never would have known otherwise. That would have hurt more.” She picked up another of the roses, her fingers playing with the edge of a petal. “You know, I’m even happier about the baby since you’re gone. He’s my last gift from you.” Her voice wobbled. “My best gift from you.”

 

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25 Comments

  1. When I am “gardening” I like to run my fingernails over a bar of soap so I will not get dirt under them. esseboo@yahoo.com

    1. Thanks Leslie! I will have to try that, dirt under the nails is a such a pain, especially when you have short nails.

  2. Bluebells are my favourite flowers. They used to grow wild in the garden of my old house. I also like snowdrops.

    1. Thanks for stopping by, Michelle 🙂 Oh bluebells are beautiful. Had to look up snowdrops, not sure I’ve seen them before.

  3. Elise-Maria Barton

    I love participating in these blog hops~ I always come away with a longer TBR as well as new bloggers added to my Bloglovin’ feed 🙂

    ilookfamous at yahoo dot com

    1. Thanks for stopping by Elise-Maria! I know what you mean,my tbr pile grows like crazy 🙂

    1. You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by, Elizabeth 🙂

  4. like lilies
    bn100candg at hotmail dot com

    1. Lilies are beautiful, love growing them too 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, bn! 🙂

  5. My aunt helped me plant my first garden. She made me get a huge bucket of water and pre-dip all my flower before I put them into the ground. She told me it helps them to grow 🙂
    savannahm1987@gmail.com

    1. Great tip, Savannah 🙂 I’ve seen my dad do that a few times as well. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂

  6. After reading this excerpt I want to know what happened to her husband.

    1. Thanks Arlinda, glad you enjoyed the excerpt! 🙂

  7. Thank you for the gardening tip. The only gardening tip I have share is this start in the fall for your garden to thrive in the spring and summer.
    greeniejoey at gmail dot com

  8. Great tip, Arlinda! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂

  9. I love to plant Zinnias. They grow really well from seed and have tons of blooms that last all summer long!

    1. Zinnias are gorgeous. I had some mini ones a couple years ago. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Catherine!

  10. Thank you for sharing your post with us! I have no gardening tips because I don’t garden. =( But my favorite flowers are Tulips.

    Thank you for the giveaway! I hope you have a great day! =)

    Brandi
    BLeigh1130 at yahoo dot com

  11. Thank you for being part of the hop… I love dogwood and cherry blossoms… Lilacs are another one of my favorites.

    j.m.platt83@gmail.com

  12. Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
    elizabeth @ bookattict . com

  13. Tulips and Daffodils are my favorite flowers. Thanks for being a part of the blog hop
    Alisha Sienkiel
    sienkiel1821@Yahoo.com

  14. If you live where there are hot, dry summers, invest in soaker hoses for your tomato plats. They’ll keep the plats watered without encouraging rot or washing away the pollen like overhead watering does.

    Nancy np-sunyer@comcast.net

  15. Hi! Great post! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
    ​And ​thank you for being apart of this awesome hop!
    shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com

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