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BG- April 1-15, 2026

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 Nothing really new.  Anemone nemorosa, in two similar shades of blue-lavender, A. lipensis, in a pale yellow, and two sorts of Fall blooming hardy Cyclamen arrived in the mail and were planted, today, in the lens shaped bed outside the window in the big room where I type this. The Anemones are rather like Spring Ephemerals, growing and blooming now, but dying down to the root as Summer comes on. And the Knockout Roses will shade these plants, as they would be shaded in Summer, as they would in their native territory. Some Anemones were also put in the little rock garden.  Forsthia 'Karl Sax' has been here for a lifetime. Individual flowers are large, for Forsythia, but I plan to order a sort that flowers all up and down the stems, heavily. A good number of newer sorts have become available. An un-named sort, common locally, is crowded in among the shrubs by the front walk. Can't recall when I even planted that.  The underwhelming relative of our common, woodland Bit...
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Bogturtle's Garden March 2026

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This may be just a deep violet example of C. thomasianna. I certainly did not put a bulb at the base of the trio of WitchHazel trees where this showed up.  The 'Tommy' Crocuses are all over the place. I think the ants spread the seeds, as those have a sweet coating the ants like. At any rate. Crocus thomasanianna, if that's the spelling, seems the only sort that dependably comes back. And more than that, it multiplies. And then the Honeybees are all over it. Where the hive may be is a mystery. The first of many Eranthus haemalis, the Winter Aconite. This clump has not increased, strangely enough. But some, planted in the chips in the bed in the center of the lawn are coming on nicely.  Came home with it snowing. And the Edgeworthia chrysantha is almost opening all its silvery white buds.   The twinned flowers of the Honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima, are opening, and snow is on them also. Usually with several honeybees visiting, so I expect that on the next pleasa...
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Bog Turtle's Garden- February 2026

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A Leucothoe or Doghobble now showing little red buds. Perhiaps L. fontenasiana. Always problematical to me, as saying the species is difficult. Ordered a lifetime ago from a southern nursery that, probably, should have denied my the flat of them, me just being a home gardener with no commercial tax number. It was cut to the ground a number of years ago, and has come back beautifully. Nandina 'firepower' shows stress from this severe Winter, but is still looking almost fluorescent.  The evergreen, furthest in the picture, is simply called the Japanese Temple Juniper, but it surely has a proper Scientific name. The plant with the large silvery buds will soon be in bloom. Edgeworthia chrysantha. There are now several distinct named clones.  And nearest, well budded for Spring, is Pieris 'Caventine'. This Mahonia, developed in Ireland, is showing quite a bit of Winter damage, and never did bloom as it has in milder Winters. M. 'Winter Sun'. Among one or two especial...
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