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Tag Archives: Leucojum aestivum
Weekly Photo Challenge: HERITAGE
The theme of this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is HERITAGE. A wonderful and meaningful heritage in my family has been the sharing of plants. This photograph is of a Leucojum aestivum spring snowflake in my garden here in North … Continue reading
What is a Garden (5)
For the past few Thursdays I have been presenting different perspectives to answering the question “What is a Garden?” Here are yet two more ways of looking at a garden. These are quotes from the larger article in my eBook, Guess … Continue reading
A Pick-Me-Up Day
For the past week we have been joining the rest of the country in unseasonably cold weather. Our garden had a welcomed one inch of rain, but it was sandwiched between two days on either side of the rain with freezing … Continue reading
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Tagged azalea, Camellia, Charlotte, cold weather, dogwood, fountain, garden, ipheion, Ipheion uniflorum 'Wisley Blue', Kornus kousa, Leucojum aestivum, Mercadonia, peony, record cold, Spring snowflake, Wisley Blue
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Snowflakes in April
One of the special plants that began blooming in my garden in early April was the Spring (some say Summer) Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum). I say it is special because it is without question a true family heirloom. My Aunt Martha gave me … Continue reading