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Bogturtle's Garden- April 1-15,2025

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 Scilla siberica is a unique color. In several places on the property, but I see only this clump, so far. Probably from a single bulb that has increased over many years. In the stones of the front walk. Happy to see the Gray Foxes visiting. And always glad to see what I think is a pair. The next video is of a squirrel being a pest in a new way, as if they need another way to annoy. Corylopsis spicata would look alot better, but the squirrels have left of feeding beneath the nearby bird feeder and eat the flowers. I did forget to turn off the TV. This is the ground hugging native, perhaps not of NJ, Green and Gold. Chrysogonum virginianum.  Inch wide flowers, and I think the foliage is evergreen. Growing here against the back of the house, under the kitchen window. A truly trouble free perennial.  Did wonder what the noise was, as it doesn't sound like a raccoon munching. But its rain hitting the havahart trap I used to trap a groundhog, last week. 
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Bogturtle's Garden- March 17 to 31, 2025

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  Frequently called the 'White Forsythia' this shrub is not one. And it seems to bloom while they are all still in bud, here. Abeliophylum distichum. Unlike Forsyrhia, also, it has a perfume. I am convinced that in an open, Sunny situation, it would be a dense fountain of bloom. I did take cuttings, yesterday, scraped the ends, dipped them in water and then in rooting compound. Now in a pot with a good many other cuttings. Hope springs eternal.  The three kinds of Winter Honeysuckles, here, all look pretty much the same. This may be Lonicera standishii. Reaching over the lattice fence to the rear of the little rock garden. Several little works of art by grandkids hang on the fence.  Edgeworthia chrysantha seems in full bloom, and, as I said, it does have a perfume, but I don't care for it. Not strong at all, though. And, technically, it is a Winter flowering shrub, going by today's date, 3/17 Above is another L. standishii, I think, in another spot on the property. Thre...
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