Garden Tour April 2011

Today's blog entry is a quick tour of what is happening within my garden. Come along to see what is blooming or getting ready to bloom.
Today we will enter through the bell gate. The tinkling sound that has successfully deterred the deer is a sweet gentle sound to our ears as we enter and are greeted with jonquils whose yellow faces seem to smile and whisper, "look at me. Look at me." 

Mixed in, among the daffodils is the tiny yellow flower whose name escapes me today.  I wrote about it last summer and have seen it in books, and online, but not today. 

 

Please help me if you can.  It is an extremely invasive plant that spreads by tiny bulblets. The plant has shiny leaves and a sunburst yellow flower.  Anyway, it is very pretty and sweet if you don't think about its spreading nature.
Along the edge of my garden is a spicebush with tiny bursts of sunshine along its branches.  I didn't plant this one. It is at that spot where garden meets woodland.

And, what would spring be without Spring beauties?  The tiny bulbs may be gathered, cleaned, sliced and sauteed.  It takes a lot to add much more than mere adventure to your meal. I fixed them once with my children. I prefer viewing the flowers to eating the bulbs but they weren't bad.

 There is very little else blooming, but the promise is there. We'll come back in a few days when the spirea is in bloom and the ferns are greening up.
Don't forget to close the gate, please.