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Looking down the Himalayan Slope along the stream and on to the Bamboo Grove which is still brown from the winter. There is a tremendous assortment of choice plants in this area and almost as many Ligularias here as there are in the Upper Woodland.
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Along the Lower Stream to the Bamboo
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Looking Down the Face of the Cliff Garden
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Looking down the face of the Cliff Garden we see a lot of pink Phlox.
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This two-tone beauty is just one of the many small marvels starting to bloom on the Cliff Garden.
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Phlox 'Coral Eye'
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Cardamine heptaphylla
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Back in the Woodland, this Cardamine tinged with pink is shown here to complement the other pink flowers on the page.
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The Rhododendron Hillside--known as Gus's Slope after Gustav Melquist the famous Rhododendron hybridizer--is becoming various shades of pink as the earliest Rhododendrons start to bloom
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Rhododendron Hillside
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Rhododendron Hillside
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Most of the Rhododendrons blooming now are small flowering hybrids of Rhododendron mucronulatum and the cultivars have names with April in them.
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Blue, blue, blue,blue--excellent blues today. Back on the Cliff, this Veronica, a low woody evergreen spreading sub-shrub was covered with the bluest flowers with white centers. A native of Asia Minor and Syria, the species is one of about 250 of the genus which is a member of the Scrophulariaceae family.
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Veronica pectinata
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Gentiana acaulis 'Trotters Variety'
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Also on the Cliff, these amazing blue Gentians have five patches of iridescent green on their throats and look like inside-out humming birds! And could this be the same Trotter as in Helleborus orientalis 'Trotters Spotted' seen on February 14? |
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A short stemmed very clear blue Iris, native to the eastern US, blooming by a rock in the Woodland.
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Iris cristata
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Blue Duo
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And another complementary combination--blue Mertensia virginica and blue Muscari.
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A member of the Compositae family, native to Europe and Asia, and known as Leopard's Bane. How wonderful to have such a summery looking plant blooming so early in the spring.
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Doronicum orientale
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Stylophorum diphyllum
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A member of the Papaveraceae family with deeply lobed leaves and bright yellow flowers. One of three species of the gen us, it is known as the Celandine Poppy and is native to eastern North America.
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The season may be progressing, but it is still worth a look in the Pit House--Check out the amazing pattern on the petals of this short Iris species grown from seed..
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Iris sp.
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