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Inspirational Women in Horticulture

By JennyRoseCarey on 2020-03-31

Unfurling and Uncurling -Spring growth

By JennyRoseCarey on 2016-04-04

Welcome spring – trees breaking bud

By JennyRoseCarey on 2016-03-20

More Witch Hazels for winter into spring bloom

By JennyRoseCarey on 2016-02-29

Top 10 favorite garden witch hazels for spring bloom and fragrance

By JennyRoseCarey on 2015-03-30

Snowy garden on March 21st! Wasn’t I meant to be planting peas?

By JennyRoseCarey on 2015-03-21

Philadelphia Flower Show 2015

By JennyRoseCarey on 2015-02-27

Touches of Color in the Winter Garden

By JennyRoseCarey on 2015-02-22

Preventing snow damage to evergreen trees and shrubs in the snow

By JennyRoseCarey on 2015-01-25

Snowy details in the garden

By JennyRoseCarey on 2015-01-11

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Unfurling and Uncurling -Spring growth
Welcome spring – trees breaking bud
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Top 10 favorite garden witch hazels for spring bloom and fragrance
Snowy garden on March 21st! Wasn’t I meant to be planting peas?
Philadelphia Flower Show 2015

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Back to visiting gardens for more inspiration for my garden writing and garden design. Here at RHS garden Wisley - Wisteria arch in bloom underplanted with Allium

Beautiful, sunny, windy day. Stonehenge - many visits over the years including on on a long ago summer solstice - with 250,000 other ‘hippies’! Great to be back this side of the pond.

A Columbine collection - 10 varied flowers. I let the bees get to work and cross my columbines to get lovely- and sometimes surprising results. These are some of the hybrid ones that are in bloom now - see earlier post for our native East coast Aquilegia canadensis. I sprinkle the ripe seed around the garden and they germinate in place - especially in gravel - path or bed.

So honored and excited to receive the Letitia Glenn Biddle award at a garden party at the Andalusia Estate and Garden. A rainy, chilly day did not deter the revelers who had a merry time amongst the spring blooms. Go and visit if you are in the Philadelphia area. Check website for all the visiting times and other information. Thank you to the team at Andalusia for a lovely evening and for this fantastic honor

So grateful to see a little sun at the end of the day - following 3 inches of rain. A little corner of Northview Garden for all the mothers and mother figures who have made a difference in our lives - happy Mother’s Day

Self-sown columbine that sowed itself into a gravel area. Photo taken a couple of days ago in sunshine. The flower is such a lovely complex bell-shaped flower. Today it rained all day and there was no sign of the sun. I know that showers bring flowers but I think that I am done with showers!

Daffodil season is still going! Narcissus poeticus recurvus is one of the latest. This elegant flower with swept back petals and a central red-rimmed center. Here it is backlit and planted in grass - in my stinze planting.

Winter Walk with a carpet of crabapple petals on the path. Celebrate the subtle beauties of each garden moment. Those of you who saw the winter reel of this same area of the garden / compare to the snowy photos. Thank goodness that the snow has gone.

Fritillaries are perfect to add drama and height to a lackluster spring garden. This is a selection - 10 photos- of the ones that are in bloom right now in early May in the mid Atlantic. I have had others in bloom for about a month. They share the dangling bell-shaped flower but vary in coloration. With a preponderance of dusky plums, olive greens, and soft yellows. Order early for fall planting and they will add delight to your garden next spring

Friday flowers - an arrangement from the garden today. Lots of small-scale flowers to suit the little copper lustreware jug - including violas, pulmonaria, corylopsis fresh foliage, Jacob”s Ladder, Leucojum, daffodils Sundisc and Hawera, Ipheion, and Sweet Woodruff. Late sunlight on a reflective surface with the window reflection and redbud tree outside.

Aquilegia canadensis- East Coast native wild columbine at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve- glowing in late day light. Easy to grow and a favorite of hummingbirds. They should be migrating through soon if the weather warms up! .

Not all flowers can be the stars of the flower garden - but what each individual flower of the Golden Alyssum or Basket of Gold - Aurinia saxatilis- lacks in size it makes up for with the zingy yellow color and the clustering together of the blooms. Second photo shows how I use these flowers in between clumps of ‘Rapture’ daffodils to disguise the foliage as it dies down and to keep the yellow theme in this bed going for longer. There is a reel from earlier this year that shows the daffodils.

Redbud trees have crazy flowers that emerge from tree trunks and branches. They are pea-like and a gorgeous red-lilac-pink. This small tree is native to Eastern USA. Fabulous underplanted with other spring bloomers. Third photo shows my redbud allee underplanted with Lemon Drops daffodils, Jacob’s Ladder, and Virginia Bluebells.

A selection of tulips that are blooming in the garden at the moment. Including - unknown red, several views of a favorite species tulip T. orphanidea, Apricot Parrot- yet another favorite! Tulipa sylvestris a lovely yellow wildling, Lady Jane, and Honky Tonk. I used to think that I couldn’t grow tulips but with perseverance and hiding them from herbivores I have had some luck. Keep on trying!

Evening view from the Rain Garden. We have had so much rain recently. The frogs sense when I am nearby and stop ‘peeping’ - as soon as I walk away they start their evening chorus again. One of the joys of springtime!

First Trillium opened today - seen here in lovely evening light. Happy Earth Day everyone. I hope that you can enjoy and appreciate your garden or another outdoor space this weekend. We have another garden group coming tomorrow.

Tulips! Such a cheerful flower in the spring garden. Somehow it is the perfect season for eye-socking color - cold winter eyes were starved for bright flowers

The tiniest daffodil of the day - to follow on from the last Violet post. This is called ‘More and More’ it is a fragrant!!! Division 7 Jonquil. Who would think that something this small could smell so sweet. It is maybe about half an inch or just over a centimeter across. I have it growing on top of a raised rockery where it gets plenty of sun, great drainage and I can see it easily. Win win. If you haven’t tried growing miniature daffodils it could be your next gardening obsession!

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