Bluebells In The Rain

Visitors came down my drive today to have a look at the wild cultivated gardens as they begin to wake up from the long barren of winter. Skeeter of In The Garden and her priceless assistant Mark stopped in to visit while on their Asheville getaway weekend that was a prize given by ExploreAsheville during the 2012 Asheville Fling.

Thick mist turned to a steady gentle rain shortly after they arrived. We had just finished a stroll through the garden becoming and where headed next door to the ridge top garden. Prepared with umbrellas we strolled on in the rain, stopping for a cache at a chimney hearth and stepping into the deep forest to see the swaths of trilliums sweeping across the forest floor.

The mountain top is turning green and enormous numbers of plants are rising from the earth or breaking bud to leaf and bloom. There were still daffodils to see and myriad other blooms, but this is not a peak moment in the bloom cycles that will ebb and flow until the first killing frosts of fall.

There was the beginning of millions of Spanish Bluebells, Hyacinthoides hispanica.

Rain is good. It turns things green. Visitors are great. It keeps life interesting. We saw bluebells in the rain.