Tag: spring flowers
Spring Is a Generous Caller
What's grand and glorious about the Pacific Northwest could not happen without the presence of rain, lots of rain—rain that sneaks in on a...
First Day of Spring, the Flowers All Sing
The first day of spring couldn't have come soon enough, although winter's waning days were nothing short of halcyon — those teaser days when waterlogged...
Video Tour: Doting Over the Daffodils
Daffodils: Spring's Brightest Garden Performers
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Spring Stroll Through the Daffodils
I wanted to mark the first day...
Spring Garden Tour: This Bud’s for You!
Vulcan Magnolia front and center, taking its long-awaited bow
The old place is draped in spring, and may I say it's most becoming. Thanks to...
Listen Up Poppies: Time to Rise and Shine
For most of May my garden flowers languished in bed, hunkered down and hitting the snooze button thanks to an endless month of unseasonably...
Bart, Your Primula Is Doing Fine
In some cafe, perhaps in Amsterdam, maybe in Bruges sits a man whose interest in the works of Van Gogh and Rubens is only...
If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?
I thought the last line in Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, a fitting title and tribute to the contrast in seasons as viewed from my back porch;...
Ringing in the Return of the Bluebells
Bluebells in my backyard dreamscape
Outside my backdoor in the shade of a gnarled friend, the bigleaf maple
The first time I recall seeing a forest floor carpeted...
