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Information about interesting garden implements and plants .

A tiny dogwood flower ready to open...

Blue Wisley Star Flower

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Hosta spikes growing bigger and greener everyday

Brunnera - happy in shady corners

Forget-Me-Nots

"At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous."
Mirabel Osler, British author, gardener

Spanish hyacinths

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The many greens of Columbine uncurling

Peaches in the making

Bees are finding the new flowers

Woodland poppies adding their bright color

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
          fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked
thee
,has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy
      beauty      .how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
        (but
true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover
          thou answerest
them only with
                        spring)

e.e. cummings

"... yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I meant to do my work to-day But a brown bird sang in the apple-tree And a butterfly flitted across the field, And all the leaves were calling me. And the wind went sighing over the land, Tossing the grasses to and fro, And a rainbow held out its shining hand So what could I do but laugh and go? "

Richard Le Gallienne, 19th century British author

A tiny bug lured to the soft scent of the azalea