Flowers

Easter Saturday

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A couple of dozen shots taken Easter Saturday morning while wandering around the back with the dogs. Once you’ve clicked the first one, you can click the center margins or use left or right arrows to advance . . .

Cherokee Princess

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Cherokee Princess, a flowering dogwood cultivar.

Said to be the industry standard for white blooms. Ours are more cream than white. We have many wild dogwoods, but none are blooming yet. This one came from a nursery a few years ago, replacing the gorgeous weeping cherry felled on this spot by the snow. (But a week later they seemed white enough.  Below I added a few more pictures taken Saturday 16 April, just as the rain began.)

Wikipedia reference: Cornus florida

Northern Magnolias

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At home, about 8am Saturday, 9 April 2011, after a cold, drizzy night at the end of a week with both warm and cool days, some strong wind, and at least one brief spell of heavy rain. (Through the winter, we have to surround these trees with 5′ wire fencing to save their large, fuzzy buds from the deer.)

Below, a few shots of the same from Monday afternoon this week.

Here’s a reference to Gardening-Guy.com, on what looks like the same plant.

Our first daffodil

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After four inches of rain in as many days, today we see our first daffodil blooms — tiny daffodils of the kind the cancer society used to sell us each spring. Only about 3″ tall — compare to the size of the acorn nearby.