Spring 2004
April 1.
Scilla siberica (squill) flowers in blue among leaves
of Corydalis lutea and ornamental onions,
Allium albopilosum (Star of Persia) and Allium unifolium.
April 5. Sanguinaria
canadensis (Bloodroot).
April 8. An overview
of the backyard beds.
On the left daffodils flower in the white bed and on the right the
ever-yellow Chamaecyparis pisfera ‘Gold Mop’ (False Cypress)
in the yellow bed.
April 8. The Yellow
Bed.
Chamaecyparis pisfera ‘Gold Mop,’ Narcissus (daffodils),
and Spiraea x bumalda ‘Gold Mound’ are in the
foreground.
And more daffodils are in flower throughout the bed.
April 8. The Blue
Bed.
Hyacinthus orientalis ‘Delft
Blue’ is in flower.
April 8.
Magnolia x soulangeana in flower.
April 10. The White Bed.
April 10.
Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla).
Flowers last only three days, then the leaves expand.
April 10. Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis).
April 18. The Back Yard.
A white crabapple (Malus ‘Snowdrift’) in flower in the distance,
with Juneberry (Amelanchier canadensis) in flower in the white bed
in front of the porch. In the center bed, dwarf iris are in flower.