2021 April Flowers! Hooray! They are back!!!
Here are a few of my favorites now blooming at Barbolian Fields. How did I forget Dandelions? They’re everywhere!! (Had to include a few of my granddaughter, who is almost 5)
2021 April Flowers! Hooray! They are back!!!
Here are a few of my favorites now blooming at Barbolian Fields. How did I forget Dandelions? They’re everywhere!! (Had to include a few of my granddaughter, who is almost 5)
2020 Update:
Ok – this was crazy – some of the warmest temperatures on record! Everything – and I do mean EVERYTHING – but most particularly the mustards and dandelions, seemed to be on steroids! And who can weed a garden that is covered with hungry bees? So that was my convenient excuse for April, but seriously, we were just grateful to see everything around us burst open in the brilliant yellows of spring: daffodils, dandelions, mustards, and forsythia, and the air scented with an abundance of cherry blossoms, particularly sweet because I thought we had lost them forever…a tale for another day. For now, enjoy the flowers! Our bees certainly did! How we all rejoice in Spring!
APRIL BLOOMS
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FLOWERS & BEE PLANTS
Ceanothus, Blue & White
Clematis
Daffodil
Dandelion
Daphne Ceneorum
Elder
Forget-me-not
Forsythia
Heather
Hyacinth
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[su_column size=”1/4″]Lungwort
Magnolia “Star”
Money Plant
Mustard Family/Brassicas
Pansies
Phlox
Potato Vine (aka Jasmine Nightshade)
Primroses
Pulmonaria
Purple deadnettle
Pussy Willows
Tulip
Viola
Wallflowers[/su_column] [su_column size=”1/4″]
FRUITS
Apples
Blueberries
Cherries
Currant, Black
Currant, Golden
Currant, Red
Currant, Red Flowering (Native)
Gooseberries, assorted
Honeyberries
Huckleberry, Native
Jostaberry
Korean Bush Cherry
Lingonberries
Nanking Cherry
Plum
Quince – Flowering (big shrub
Saskatoon, Regent
Strawberries[/su_column] [su_column size=”1/4″]
ASSORTED HERB & USEFUL PLANTS
Calendula
Catmint
Chives
Rosemary
Sweet Cicely
Woodruff, Sweet
Oxalis
Willows, basketry types
VEGETABLES / OTHER EDIBLES
Arugula
Brassicas & Mustards
Miner’s Lettuce
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My Love Affair with Dandelions
2019 Was a Very Good Year for Red Flowering Currants and Magnolias
Some Photos from the 2018 April Garden
More April Photos from Barbolian Fields
Tulips & daffodils - they seem to have a special friendship, do they not? (at Barbolian Fields)
Purple deadnettle and bee. Bees love these! (especially the bumbles!) They are a prolific "weed" - but who can rip them out? (at Barbolian Fields)
Plum blossoms - dense! (at Barbolian Fields)
Phlox. A beautiful groundcover beloved by bees - so I grow it close to them. (at Barbolian Fields)
Lavender phlox - this plant cascades over the top of a concrete planter in the shape of an elephant, and is quite beautiful at twilight. (at Barbolian Fields)
Periwinkle - a nice evergreen groundcover for choking out grass. Grows well in the shade and in acid soil - great in the woodland garden beneath the firs. (at Barbolian Fields)
Oxalis - borrowed these from the nearby woods - and they fit perfectly in a "woodland" garden. (at Barbolian Fields)
Closeup of Nanking Cherry blossoms. Wow! (at Barbolian Fields)
Nanking cherry - this photo does not do this plant justice. It was truly spectacular in full bloom. And it's only going to get bigger! (at Barbolian Fields)
Bee on mustard-family blossom. These are everywhere in the garden, and so are the bees! An important source of food in early spring. I'd like to pull them out to make room for other things - but not until they are done blooming! (at Barbolian Fields)
Morels showed up in the orchard and other areas where I had laid a thick woodchip mulch over cardboard. (at Barbolian Fields)
Money plant - aka Lunaria, because the seedpods look like coins - or quite possibly a silver moon. The spring blossoms are a brilliant magenta! (at Barbolian Fields)
Magnolia - so soft, so very sweet. (at Barbolian Fields)
Magnolia - this little dwarf Magnolia is quite old, yet every year, it graces us with an abundance of blossoms that stand out so bright against a blue sky, and especially at twilight. (at Barbolian Fields)
Purple Hyacinth - very sweet - gorgeous next to the bright yellow daffodils. (at Barbolian Fields)
Honeyberry blossoms are rather inconspicuous, but are greatly appreciated by bees in early spring - and should produce some great tasting berries in summer! (at Barbolian Fields)
Goumi - I didn't realize how much rust spots were on this plant until I looked at the picture close up. I might need to figure out what to do about that. (at Barbolian Fields)
Forsythia in early morning - what a burst of sunshine! And truly a sign that spring is finally here! (at Barbolian Fields)
Forget-me-nots in the woodland garden make a beautiful airy groundcover. (at Barbolian Fields)
Daphne cenoreum - a very sweet smelling unassuming shrub that can tolerate poor soil conditions. Another good bee plant. (at Barbolian Fields)
Daffodils - every year I try to capture how spectacular these are in spring - and maybe it's that we are so thankful to see flowers again, but I never quite get it right. The trumpeter of sunshine! (at Barbolian Fields)
Red "Cascade" Currants - when you look at the flowers, you can see why they are called "Cascade." We should have a cascade of tart red berries in summer! (at Barbolian Fields)
Black Currant, "Crandall" - this is the native clove-scented currant that you read about. Completely different blossoms than the red Cascade currant! Berries are dark and rich. (at Barbolian Fields)
Cherry blossoms - gorgeous! and when they fall, the ground is covered in pink! (at Barbolian Fields)
Gorgeous pics!! Every day is like opening a Pandora’s box of blossoms!! I love that you have nanking cherry, I have a relationship with that plant! Would love to have one in my little garden. And the dandelion video is stunning 🙂 thank you thank you!!!
I will try to get a cutting started for you, Dianna! Ours is prone to rust – it might be our climate and might do better where you are. (It looks like I forgot to add the follow-up pic on the dandelions when the whole field turned to fluff!)