We took a walk along the local rail trail today since it was cold and damp and buggy in the woods.  The wildflowers were incredible!!!

Pink ladyslippers

White ladyslipper

Wild Geranium

False Solomon’s Seal

Star flower

Fringed polygala

Wild columbine

Bluets

Wild lupine

Painted turtle laying her eggs

Back to the garden tomorrow….

Fairyland.  That’s what the garden looks like right now.  All the little spring things are blooming and there is magic happening.  The plants sure like the cool spring weather we are having and the blooms are lasting a long time.

Lilac

Flowering almond

Primroses and primula

Iris cristata

Dodecatheon (Shooting star), primroses, epimediums and flowering almond

Hens and chicks

Androsace primula “Chumbyi’ in the rock garden

Lewisia, columbine, and sedums

Epimedium ‘Domino’

Epimedium (also called Fairy wings)

 Some fairies showed up too