"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
~ Alfred Austin
Unfurling Ostrich Fern 'Fiddleheads'
(Matteuccia struthiopteris)
Ivory tulip
Bergenia
Rock Garden
Columbine
(Aquilegia)
Double tulip 'Angelique'
Tulips
Tulip Princess Irene
(Tulipa)
Dwarf Iris
Flowering Crabapple Tree
Apple Blossoms
Bergenia and Sweet Woodruff
Wildflower Bed
Variegated Solomon's Seal
(Polygonatum biflorum)
Lady Fern, Trillium, and Sweet Woodruff
Yellow Lady's Slipper
(Cypripedium Calceolus L.)
Jack in the Pulpit
(Arisaema Triphyllum)
Gold Heart Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis 'Gold Heart')
Cowslip (Primula veris)
Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema Triphyllum)
Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Trillium
Ferns, Hosta, and Azalea
"All through the long winter I dream of my garden. On the first warm day of spring I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."
~ Helen Hayes
Comments
and I love your clock weather vane?? Not sure if it's a weather vane or not but it's very cool. I can only hope to have such lush full beds surrounding my home someday. You have collected an amazing array of plants. Very inspiring.
Love everything you have blooming. Wish I could grow columbine. I know. But it never comes back.
And there you go, Monica :) Sometimes this columbine doesn't return, unlike Aquilegia canadensis so prolific in my cottage garden up north.
Thank you, Carolyn, an honor after viewing yours! Very prolific in my cottage garden, my Lady's Slipper needs to be carefully guarded here by strangling lamium (I think we discussed this). Unless I missed it, I seem to have lost my Bloodroot this year, which makes me very sad :( Indeed we have great taste in our gardens and the men in our lives :)
Me too, Scott. As much as I hate planting them in fall, I so enjoy my spring bulbs.
Eileen
How in the world do you get Bergenia to bloom? I've had it for a couple of years now and still no sign of blooms.
I love all your photos, but that shot of the trilium and bluebells with a touch of yellow is absolutely gorgeous.
Happy spring dear friend! Isn't it wonderful?
A touching comment, imac! This is my goal :)
Thank you, Eileen. Bergenia looks fabulous in drifts and I am lucky to have room to make it shine. This time of year is my favorite! I so wait for spring and the look of this handsome plant with my emerging bulbs. It is a great all year round look ... fat like cabbage in summer and awesome colorful in fall!
An honor coming from your gifted eye, Freda. Thank you.
Indeed, Robin, God's blessings are many! (But do wish the rain would STOP so I could fine tune the garden.)
Friends for many years, delighted to hear from you, dear Kerri, and thank you. Bergenia is very happy in my garden ... most planted almost 30 years ago and still growing strong. I so love the look with my early spring bulbs ... makes my heart stand still!
Esther
Glad you posted them.
Patsi
Delighted you like this handsome variegated Soloman's Seal, Esther. Have the old standard in my garden at the lake, which looks find in the true woodland garden. So do come and wander about (the garden changes every day) ... would so enjoy your visit :)
Thank you, dear Carol. I too so love the spring garden that changes from morning to night and gets a huge face lift every 2 weeks. Next week all will look totally different ... the joys of perennial gardening! But you well know the joys ...
How kind, Plant Postings. Thank you and do hope you return :)
Thank you, Kanak. You have been a friend for quite some time and have seen my garden throughout the seasons. Always a joy to hear from you and always a joy to visit you and your beautiful life.
Hi Rose! Thank you ... my shade gardens (easiest to tend) are also my favorite! Yes, for me a bit a paradise.
Thanks Patsi ... do hope you enjoy your bergenia. It's a stellar plant! Wish you lived near ... I have so much to share!
I love the Lady Slipper and Jack-in-the-Pulpit ! I don't have either of them and I need to make that right!
I just noticed the subject header Lemon Verbena ice cream .. I totally love Lemon Verbena .. the aroma is exactly like that hard lemon candy that was so delicious ! if the ice cream is as tasty .. well, I am in real trouble now ! LOL
Joy : )