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Bogturtle's Garden- April 16 to end, 2023

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 Started early, but so much is blooming that the beginning of the Month is loaded.  Camellia 'Red Jade' again. Kerria japonica 'Plena'. Must remind people of marigolds. A few blooms on the flowering quince. Probably genus Chaenomeles, but of a unique color. C.'Cameo'.  Dicentra spectablilis 'Alba' again.  Another flowering quince, with a Japanese name I may not be able to find. This is the one that grew gigantic, and I cut it back last Fall. Probably most of the potential buds, unfortunately.  Another Epimedium. And this one with lemon yellow blooms. Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum, apparently.  The blooms on this shrub make me think it is a Viburnum, and, perhaps, a cultivar of the species carlesii. The Spice Viburnum. And it does smell nice. Over the years I have assumed it was a Hydrangea. The absolutely ground hugging evergreen, from New Zealand, comes in the normal purple pink, but I prefer the white flowered clone. Mazus reptans 'Alba', r