Jenny Rose Carey
Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden
As the days lengthen and the temperatures increase the pace of spring growth increases. Buds open. Shoots emerge and elongate. The pace of change is dizzying. Capture these fleeting moments in photographs to enjoy year round. Photos above: Leucojum vernum - Spring snowflake - dangling white and …
Continue Reading about Unfurling and Uncurling -Spring growth
The star-like white flowers of Magnolia stellata, the star Magnolia (shown above), are some of the first Magnolias to bloom in the spring. The strappy tepals (sepals and petals) explode from tightly packed, fuzzy buds when a few warm days spur new spring growth. Magnolia x loebneri' Leonard …
The Hamamelis season is in full swing here at Northview. Many of the witch hazel flowers are out earlier this year as the weather has been mild this winter, although combined with one of the heaviest snowfalls recorded in Philadelphia. I have been thinking about witch hazels for the last few weeks. …
Continue Reading about More Witch Hazels for winter into spring bloom
This dear little white crocus called 'Snow Bunting'. It is the only crocus bred by E.A. Bowles that is commercially available. Check out the web site for his former garden in England. These corms were planted in a terracotta pot sunk into the ground to try and stop the voles and mice from eating …
Today is technically the first day of spring, but it is not very spring-like. Despite the heavy rain yesterday we still have a few little patches of snow left. The cold air, frozen soil, and the fact that we only have snowdrops and winter aconites out, make the garden feel more like winter than …
Continue Reading about Two years ago on this date – it looked like spring
After a long period of hibernation, the slumbering, catalog-crazed gardener emerges from the nook by the fireside. Stepping gingerly outside the back door, it is time to reconnect with the still frozen wasteland that used to be called your garden. What a hard winter! Frozen rain and strong winds …
At only two and a half inches tall, this fragile ephemeral beauty is commonly known as a "Tommie" crocus (Crocus tommasinianus). The great English horticulturist, E. A. Bowles, called these crocuses "Tom" for short, but I am more inclined to call them the more feminine "Tomasina." Bowles described …
Happy Spring! The Winter Aconites (Eranthis hyemalis) are out at long last. The bees are collecting the pollen in the pollen baskets on their legs. What a sunny color. (Plus one random crocus top right). I hope that the rest of the snow will melt soon. …
