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. 'Alba'.

Really darker than the photo shows. Camellia 'Red Jade'. Right in front of where we park the vehicles and backed by the fence to the pool deck. 



A Shadbush, Shadblow, Shadberry, and the Shad fish are now being caught in the local river. The Running Shadbush, Amelanchier stolonifera. Have seen no expansion of the little tree at the roots.

Now in numerous places on the property, the white flowered form of the Bleeding Heart.

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