'SHOW ME YOUR GARDEN ... ' ~ EARLY MAY COMPANIONS

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what your are. "

Alfred Austin

Azalea and Bergenia

'Love in bloom'

Azalea, Trillium, Bergenia

Angelique Tulip

'Spring Green' Tulip

Tulips and white dwarf Iris

Double tulip

Tulips

Japanese Painted Fern

Trillium

Virginia Bluebell, Hosta, Variegated Solomon's Seal,

Sweet Woodruff, Japanese Painted Fern, Geranium, Celandine Poppy,

Lady's Mantle, Trillium, Jacob's Ladder

Trillium and Maiden Hair Fern

Flowering azalea and fern

Hosta, Heuchera (Key Lime Pie), and Rhododendron

Budding Rhododendron

FAREWELL SWEET APRIL ~ 'AS THE GARDEN GROWS'

"Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment."

~ Ellis Peters

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AS THE GARDEN GROWS ... MID-MAY MARVELS

"How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence."

~ Benjamin Disraeli

~ Jack-in-the-pulpit

(Arisaema triphyllum)

~ Bergenia , tulips and Lady's Mantle

~ Tulips, hosta, bergenia, trillium, primrose and Maidenhair fern

~ Mid-May garden

1) Iris, Cinnamon Fern, Bleeding Heart, Cornflower (Mountain Bluet), Japanese painted fern

2) Trillium & Virginia Bluebell, Trillium, Tulip, Azalia, Bergenia

3) Celandine Poppy, Azalia, Tulip, Trillium & Maidenhair Fern, Azalia

4) Fern, Tulip, Exbury Azalia, Tulip, Azalia & Hosta

5) Solomon's seal, Viburnum, Downy Yellow Violet, Jacob' s Ladder, Jack-in-the-Pulpit

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"When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower,

it opened up a whole new world ~

a world where every country walk would be an adventure,

where every garden would become an enchanted one ..."

~ Princess Grace of Monaco