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Bogturtle's Garden- April 15 to end, 2026

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  Just outside the kitchen, where the faucet for the garden hose is, a native, planted years ago, is spreading. Chrysogonum virginianum. A common name is 'Green and Gold'. Just about evergreen, here.  Really a flood of blooming coming on. Hardly able to keep track of it. I planted a form of perennial Forget Me Not in a planter by the little pool. I think they have started, but, last year, they shed seed onto the ground outside, and those hav grown an bloomed much earlier. And a few bloom white, which is fine with me. Myosotis silvatica, I think. But it does not seem a biennial at all. It returns, as far as I can tell, perenially. And at least a hundred species have been named. Kerria japonica 'Plena', with its doubled marigold like flowers is coming into bloom. A colonizing plant, spreading now into areas where it is not welcome. 'Dependable' might be the word. And around the exit drive, a growing clump of cream colored ones bloom. Not snow white. K. J. 'Alb...
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BG- April 1-15, 2026

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 I keep a detailed, tedious spreadsheet in this computer about the gardens and plants. Where and when each plant was purchased and what each cost and present location. Nobody will care, I am confident. And then plants die or are moved. but I try. Anemone nemorosa, in two similar shades of blue-lavender, A. lipsiensis, 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 and Cyclamen 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. ...
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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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