Serendib Garden

Azalea, tulips, pansies, ranunculus, fritillaries; muscari, hyacinth, lamium…

Collecting flowers for pressing.

Native Great White trillium.

Azalea.

Thalia daffodils and cabbage white moth.

Native double bloodroot.

The Thalia white daffodils are out in force — they spread in my zone, so I’ll be digging up the bigger bunches soon and placing some elsewhere in the garden, and giving some away. Redbud and plum trees starting to bloom. The garden is really wacky right now — flowers just EVERYWHERE. This is probably

The pollinators definitely think it’s spring here. Red Admiral butterfly.

Pressing flowers — scilla, chionodoxa, checkered fritillary, hellebores.

I am in one of my super-harried weeks again, but trying to remember to take 5-10 minutes for the garden here and there, in between kazillion often-challenging e-mails. Sigh. 2.5 weeks to end of semester — it’s a sprint, and I’m at the trying-not-to-throw-up stage. The garden is the only thing keeping me sane right