Tag: New England Spring
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Spring Blues as in Yummy Colors
The garden changes daily now. Heat, rain,wind, and longer days continue the parade of plants emerging, opening, and flowering. The blue pansy paired with the muscari have been delighting me for weeks. But now, the rose foliage behind and sedum adjacent create a lush abundance to greet me. Here’s the larger composition.…
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Jewels of the the Journey
Did the Thalia narcissus blooming with the pink hellebore enchant me more than the European ginger with the emerging fern? Or the amazing smell of the lilac scenting the garden fully 2 -3 weeks earlier than usual?Or the textures of allium, cerastium, granite, and geranium foliage? Or the wonder of the sun lighting the varied array of…
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Hummingbird Story
Hummingbird visits to my garden are always a treat for me. I don’t have a feeder, but one passes thru the flower garden now and then. My hairdresser, Suzy, told me a lovely story. She places a feeder in her garden every year about this time (late April-May) and eagerly awaits the visits. Over the years,…
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flower hunt
Millions of children hunt brightly colored eggs this morning. Not to be left out, my child within hunts the new spring flowers that daily appear in my garden. The lovely witch hazel that provided so much delight and hope mere weeks ago in cheerless March now wears her petals as bright yellow carpet. The pounding rain of Monday and…
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Enable Beauty
Muscari, dwarf iris, and dianthus budded foliage Found myself in waking consciousness muttering the words” enable beauty” one morning this week. The dream fragments that I woke with escape me now but do remember the words–a mantra of sorts. The mantra of one who gardens and designs landscapes professionally, I’m continually challenged to create gardens that delight, restore,and…
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Fairy Hang-out? Emerging Rodgersias (now named Astilboides tabularis) or Rodger’s Flowers
Emerging Rodgersia Its the round leaf variety that I grow and cherish in my garden–it will have very large round leaves as the photo taken last summer shows. I love it tucked into a shady damp corner of my garden. The flowers are enchanting aren’t they? I’d…
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Maples and Pulmonarias, Acers and Lungworts
The swamp maples red glow brighten our New England woodlands now–its Acer rubrum’s spring color reminiscent of autumn. But its the Acer japonicum ‘Folicifolium’ bud’s that hold my attention just now. Long a favorite tree I planted one in my garden last fall. I’d never seen it at this time of year and while I anticipate…
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Daily Tread, or better named, Daily Treat
Some days the trek through the garden is quick –a passing glance checking in everybody. (The garden and its plants feel like a community of friends so the reference to “everybody” seems accurate.) Something unexpected stops me in my tracks–often with an exclamation of joy! This morning’s discovery that yesterday’s 70 degree heat brought the dwarf…
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Peepers are New England ‘Singing’ Frogs
Barely awake, or was I barely asleep, I heard beep, beep. Or was it peep, peep. A cold morning earlier this week–waking more I realized that it was the first frog announcing its presence that morning. Their cheerful chorus greets me morning and night. I’ve gathered some information from the http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/spring-peeper.html “Type: Amphibian Diet: Carnivore…
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First Blush
Daphne cneorum Its happening. Its been a long wait. Photos taken on April 4, 2008 in my front, back, and side garden.