The Native Stinze

First come the bulbs. They wake in early to mid-March. April is when the forest floor natives and the long since naturalized truly begin to wake up. It is a verdant green carpet full of the tiniest of flowers. For most this would all be weeds.

For me it is the native stinze. For rising from the verdant carpet of tiny flowers are a host of larger, meadow plant forms, both the native and the planted.

Trilliums are an April bloom.

Sometime in May the first mowing of the paths will be done. For now it may bloom and grow.

Since I neglected to get a lot of flower pictures and it is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, I give  you Uvularia grandiflora, Large Flowered Bellwort. No one else at headquarters is bound to have it.

We have been doing the hovering around 32 Dogwood Winter again this week. I saw snow up high this morning.

So far ....... there has only been the lightest nip of freezer burn. That is not always the case.

A garden was planted directly into the green carpet of what was there. There are no mulched beds. I can do that where I live. I can have a garden's edges defined by what is mowed

The forest itself also begins to stir and bloom in April, in subtle shades of autumn.

It is spring in the wild cultivated gardens. The forest floor and the trees above are waking up.