BACK TO GREEN SPRING GARDENS ON 3-4-24 - PART 2

 Paperbush 

(otherwise known as Edgeworthia chrysantha).  If you click on this link, it will take you my two other posts from 2022, as well as including these recent ones, which all include the Paperbush. There is information that I won't repeat.  However, you can also read about it at this link. A native to the Szechaun province in China, Edgeworthia is used to manufacture very high quality paper. I read that bit of information here.

It's the only plant of this type I have seen at the garden, or any other garden we have been to, located near the visitor center next to the parking lot. The white gazebo is in the same area.  I tried to take a photo underneath, to show you the very pretty cluster of tiny yellow flowers, but my photos didn’t work out.

“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.”

~Terri Guillemets~

According to my plant app - Picture This - we have a Japanese apricot here.  It is also known as Chinese plum, Mume and Flowering apricot, with a botanical name of Prunus mume.  (If any of you disagree with any of my ID's please let me know.  I am still learning as I go along.)

Not a very clear one of the American Robin as there were too many brambles around, but we had interrupted his lunch which was just in front of him.  He was more interested in that than posing for a photo.

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."

~John Ruskin~

The Old House

This is a plaque behind the house. I have never noticed it before.

A Cornelian Cherry Dogwood tree saying hello to the coming Spring.

The produce garden and shed nicely framed. From the Japanese Apricot to the produce garden, Gregg took all these photos.  I always enjoy what he sees through his camera lens.

I have always liked this tree.  It is an Hinoki cypress, botanical name Chamaecyparis obtusa. It is native to Japan and is a slow-growing ornamental tree.  

Lenten Rose, a slightly brighter color than the other I shared a previous post.

The snowdrops were popping up in a grassy area not too far from the house.

I put a collage together of what we saw at the garden.

No more photos for from this visit. It will be fun to go back and see what is blooming as the weather gets warmer.

HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE - I AFFIRM THAT…

“I affirm that the daffodil is my favorite flower. For the daffodil comes, not only before the swallow comes, but before the many flowers of summer; it comes on the heels of a flowerless winter.Yes a favorite flower must be a spring flower.”

~A. A. Milne~

Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both world wars, as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War.

Milne was the father of bookseller Christopher Robin Milne, upon whom the character Christopher Robin is based. It was during a visit to London Zoo, where Christopher became enamored with the tame and amiable bear Winnipeg, that Milne was inspired to write the story of Winnie-the-Pooh for his son. Milne bequeathed the original manuscripts of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories to the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge, his alma mater.

More can be read here.