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Tulips “Angelique” with a little more of the parkway beyond, including some white bleeding heart now blooming. The irises and achillea are coming. Filling out nicely as we move through mid-spring.

Tulip “Angelique” is one of my favorites; I try to replenish it every few years, so I have some blooming every year. (Tulips are marginally hardy in our zone, so tend to reduce over time.) Because they bloom right around our May 1 anniversary, and they’re so ridiculously romantic, I’ve come to think of them

A brighter blue here, and non-variegated leaves, which I think means that this is a offshoot of the original variegated plant? I’m not sure… I’m still learning about the complexities of how plants breed. It is VERY complicated. But I’m interested, especially because I’d really love to see home gardeners in my area doing a

There’s this haze of subtle blue from the brunnera is much of my garden right now. This patch of blooms is fading, but still lovely, esp. with this variegated leaves.

Pansies and muscari, in golden late afternoon light. It was an absolutely perfect day yesterday, and I was very aware of the privilege my family has, with a garden and a porch. I hope we can safely keep the parks open — I know other countries, like my native Sri Lanka, have implemented more serious

I pulled the landscape tulips that had finished out of the window boxes and tossed them in a bucket; need to replant them in the backyard today, and hopefully they’ll come back. Replaced with various things — lobelia and ivy at the corners of the window boxes, and ballerina thrift in the center, because I

Arthur, look! You got me so hooked on lobelia, all those years ago, that now I have to grow flats of my own, because I can’t afford to plant as much as I’d like.  See what you did, teaching me to garden? Everything I do in the garden is your fault now… Sometimes the little seedlings