tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17870194975770279252024-03-05T07:56:23.419-08:00Of Leaf and Limb
Looking at horticulture, garden design, and natureSarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-55876783357541004162021-02-09T11:24:00.000-08:002021-02-09T11:24:07.275-08:00Jim Mck's garden<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An enormous cephalataxus overwhelms you at the front door (ajar for covid reasons.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrV8re9FMWH1RqNwkd7o7tCxHPAO47W2PE-wtvN1_HWAoXJqMDV5yzh5VnZ-wm0GlEQTp4Fq-4OrwHraD48K2nV7si22DZ0GTsQCi_lCMdmxmqnj7NssMZs19U1Wpnn-wa46UpNTTZvMI/s2048/strickler_210204_2-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrV8re9FMWH1RqNwkd7o7tCxHPAO47W2PE-wtvN1_HWAoXJqMDV5yzh5VnZ-wm0GlEQTp4Fq-4OrwHraD48K2nV7si22DZ0GTsQCi_lCMdmxmqnj7NssMZs19U1Wpnn-wa46UpNTTZvMI/s320/strickler_210204_2-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Last place Jim sat in his garden </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo05rKkG28lpocAEBZAnoP3KvfeKLQa01aQA8ztUZofQ-2Qy6mdfYPuJb9-B_VG9pU7xMlXuxctjPf7YkprL468rJ8mxl69rd82W-j04f8at2cXPU1mUpTNU7vSWstHLsWw-B9HmnMF8e/s2048/strickler_210204_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo05rKkG28lpocAEBZAnoP3KvfeKLQa01aQA8ztUZofQ-2Qy6mdfYPuJb9-B_VG9pU7xMlXuxctjPf7YkprL468rJ8mxl69rd82W-j04f8at2cXPU1mUpTNU7vSWstHLsWw-B9HmnMF8e/s320/strickler_210204_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">May pops (fruit of passiflora above) Vine has taken over magnolia. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are 3 nice magnolia stellata out front on his hell strip between street and sidewalk .</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZYJpzGEki07y1jeYYNkjFbuncJx3LxquG1U2-p9eN-vkb9pCpZLA0tjB0tb59hbo9baKmz4grnzJtja2GRefvIc4h62r5n3KYZXvWsyAhZul24qTUZ37sY1vTGJSr8uNA_GTxwKLXI2s4/s2048/strickler_210204_2-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZYJpzGEki07y1jeYYNkjFbuncJx3LxquG1U2-p9eN-vkb9pCpZLA0tjB0tb59hbo9baKmz4grnzJtja2GRefvIc4h62r5n3KYZXvWsyAhZul24qTUZ37sY1vTGJSr8uNA_GTxwKLXI2s4/s320/strickler_210204_2-8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsTEf7vMd5XwLqr52ynS8WFRuXwGPH8oLT78C7rfVOPzsftCHpntKZOxEYzO9CicCvbmwYocPHQH8YBgdoYreavJO9IdLhMpMFBO-Zh_qf2VxH1r7bvxUXoZFTLyS4agXxUuzA3rlcs9EM/s2048/strickler_210204_2-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbow4xAX0tgX20aOH15cKjFvTpGGIfSkUqGBNHQ5fTS26Npx_mnAgPGKHbdA_IAlNPGu0fo2xWF70wVLQWrsM3XpiU8TGBZX6htBDvVl501anew3Nt9VHI7U-bsdOZCsRb1vSBF4qhff-/s2048/strickler_210204_2-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbow4xAX0tgX20aOH15cKjFvTpGGIfSkUqGBNHQ5fTS26Npx_mnAgPGKHbdA_IAlNPGu0fo2xWF70wVLQWrsM3XpiU8TGBZX6htBDvVl501anew3Nt9VHI7U-bsdOZCsRb1vSBF4qhff-/s320/strickler_210204_2-13.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Looking at back of house<p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUC2Q8gvBbO3-aAYp9JGaYKE4st0_X18BV3_CmIoK8S2Qx3xDQTnPYraV-vaTNI4bsOh4W-WyXMeo2D-5-cMg9dMHcgyMYDDhzVFuoPgTIXlHPk9BVvEm_72ojbeJSNWq43jIuG1kAoFun/s2048/strickler_210204_2-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">Brotzman order from last year. I can see labels for Cornus officianalis Kintoki and Hamamelis 'Sandra' </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4SteYSiu743rtctCs1JDPcZCOWQKXtFyxPqWdh8vECgFSxY4a4n_fKbQOadR2nOQHlFSbIlm8Mppvlb_T6rQtUx55C9n5fJWczpJ2QSD4u1gkdFH2FWcls7fHyBcxj0SsapRoI20PGHm/s2048/strickler_210204_2-76.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4SteYSiu743rtctCs1JDPcZCOWQKXtFyxPqWdh8vECgFSxY4a4n_fKbQOadR2nOQHlFSbIlm8Mppvlb_T6rQtUx55C9n5fJWczpJ2QSD4u1gkdFH2FWcls7fHyBcxj0SsapRoI20PGHm/s320/strickler_210204_2-76.jpg" /></a></div>Jim's brother-in-law helping to load Jim D's car with plants from house. <p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JhHv9H8CI9V6eskVc1sPPKmxDGXfL761b9ytEH5pKXNt1lC_29uNL0gqdI7qOKdK9qcXBbNp0LhBART3X-bf5kDcpY2gUCPfDHhS9FY3jkzvCETpebVH9XKIseAKsG0xhkfzZO54p1km/s2048/strickler_210204_2-70.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JhHv9H8CI9V6eskVc1sPPKmxDGXfL761b9ytEH5pKXNt1lC_29uNL0gqdI7qOKdK9qcXBbNp0LhBART3X-bf5kDcpY2gUCPfDHhS9FY3jkzvCETpebVH9XKIseAKsG0xhkfzZO54p1km/s320/strickler_210204_2-70.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Below is a post from Jim's blog about his pergola, which he said only gravity was holding together. There's a pic in earlier days. Apparently roses grew on it. </p><p>http://mcwort.blogspot.com/2007/12/aeolian-woes.html</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-2829828067224609092021-01-02T09:23:00.000-08:002021-01-02T09:23:05.469-08:00New Years Day in Bloom: Renewing A PVC Tradition <p><span style="font-family: arial;">Since Bob Faden suggested we renew the tradition of reporting what is in bloom on New Year's Day, I am beginning with him. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Plants flowering in Faden gardens (home garden + YMCA + Simpson
Park) Alexndria, VA, on 1<sup>st</sup> January 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Camellia
japonica ‘Spring Promise’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Camellia
‘Snow Flurry’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Camellia
“Winter’s Beauty’ [cultivar questionable, but plant received under this name]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Camellia
‘Winter’s Star’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Erica
x darleyensis ‘Furzey<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Erica
x darleyensis “Mediterranean Pink’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fatsia
japonica*<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Galanthus
elwesii var. monostichtus<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Galanthus
elwesii var. elwesii<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Helleborus
niger ‘HGC Jacob’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Helleborus
hybrid [large purple buds and flowers: label lost]*<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jasminum
nudiflorum<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mahonia
bealei<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mahonia
japonica<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mahonia
x media ‘Marvel’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mahonia
x media ‘Winter Sun’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Narcissus
‘Rijnveld’s Early Sensation’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sarcococca
orientalis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">*First
time on list.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFX3VHerL8dA65PbU8Jt2YEozdEEip1rIMOqDta7EhdkEHh8ALxCMWGT3deXnrjYzChBsVk3mZDorwmoBxpO1Mh6O91qlM1UHmkvoquBNVEpZd-zDq6TooXLZAQCcP343JIIi6HwGDkFh/s2048/IMG_20201223_164329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFX3VHerL8dA65PbU8Jt2YEozdEEip1rIMOqDta7EhdkEHh8ALxCMWGT3deXnrjYzChBsVk3mZDorwmoBxpO1Mh6O91qlM1UHmkvoquBNVEpZd-zDq6TooXLZAQCcP343JIIi6HwGDkFh/w300-h400/IMG_20201223_164329.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camellia 'Winter's Beauty'</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br />'<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPPx3g3KXcyu6yp6TvEd8VjN3Jv5Ds2xYHjkuWmzRMiHo9ueZ80BXQQhmD1oRToujwR2260_DY67ISw9RmFoucHegCFxIoZSFHuAVV_ADvVDdvxAH0xZTi0y7ubX_synIoDD_BuUeq_vs/s1960/IMG_20201231_161535.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="1470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPPx3g3KXcyu6yp6TvEd8VjN3Jv5Ds2xYHjkuWmzRMiHo9ueZ80BXQQhmD1oRToujwR2260_DY67ISw9RmFoucHegCFxIoZSFHuAVV_ADvVDdvxAH0xZTi0y7ubX_synIoDD_BuUeq_vs/w300-h400/IMG_20201231_161535.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus niger 'HGC Jacob'<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwC7YNxVcN7kpONgFv-yKPOT33BYnMYoerf6TPwJVx2fWv0KXdEOJhwtIp1jbpi_o1jugivG3dB53C_3ZtUUUcoEwN0YfbM3Fv3a3zQjYo1KgrlAe4hNBnYrha1tn6bv4qMuqNIVosYK_1/s2046/IMG_20201231_161715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwC7YNxVcN7kpONgFv-yKPOT33BYnMYoerf6TPwJVx2fWv0KXdEOJhwtIp1jbpi_o1jugivG3dB53C_3ZtUUUcoEwN0YfbM3Fv3a3zQjYo1KgrlAe4hNBnYrha1tn6bv4qMuqNIVosYK_1/w300-h400/IMG_20201231_161715.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unnamed Hellebore</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjff8bSRPlqPBYkt3eJBdzfdJe0VbDRrirTnsmO0AW5DTGcWiWvCZfWa128ed4IiUW87QwCra8NJjA1Ru__774WS9E_PxuUVG9V3nLxkV98hShSD7sCd_bxDhs-xpGVMVVoWd22xYq3Z_8g/s1790/IMG_20201231_162207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1790" data-original-width="1342" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjff8bSRPlqPBYkt3eJBdzfdJe0VbDRrirTnsmO0AW5DTGcWiWvCZfWa128ed4IiUW87QwCra8NJjA1Ru__774WS9E_PxuUVG9V3nLxkV98hShSD7sCd_bxDhs-xpGVMVVoWd22xYq3Z_8g/w300-h400/IMG_20201231_162207.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fatsia japonica</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmpw0ngvuz4Ua87dmQPGxThxRSbV0q6tB8FGAMYjDkXEbUJAujm9_5e6qKDDIo3xcGfFch3rz12CCz50KfJYmg3ypA8O3FxdxjQxaGJ4nSWeZ_QgAYxQWIqdcVKr_OU1q4Tpq5UqgeAj8D/s2048/IMG_20210101_163722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmpw0ngvuz4Ua87dmQPGxThxRSbV0q6tB8FGAMYjDkXEbUJAujm9_5e6qKDDIo3xcGfFch3rz12CCz50KfJYmg3ypA8O3FxdxjQxaGJ4nSWeZ_QgAYxQWIqdcVKr_OU1q4Tpq5UqgeAj8D/w300-h400/IMG_20210101_163722.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">N. 'Rijnveld's Sensation'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp90gNXQypIjY8PeRezXHkDlVS2SGjgpcWtV4eoTFH0cKuEh7Mr6Xk8EQqfqRyfxJi3coqVA8jkzXwyQ9aGKVOavibgHLs_9GnNxEsRAxf7n6C5orDfpd-H_2hVfGjm10oNwPsjfl6ha9/s2048/IMG_20201223_163809.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAp90gNXQypIjY8PeRezXHkDlVS2SGjgpcWtV4eoTFH0cKuEh7Mr6Xk8EQqfqRyfxJi3coqVA8jkzXwyQ9aGKVOavibgHLs_9GnNxEsRAxf7n6C5orDfpd-H_2hVfGjm10oNwPsjfl6ha9/w300-h400/IMG_20201223_163809.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahonia x 'Winter's Sun'</td></tr></tbody></table><br />From Mike Cassidy's garden, also in Alexandria, VA:</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgocAuKZEEDRyAhhcuhsmPDXXWdd-9367SYv741nn0ukd-9JnB51Q29f3aZWSL3GpKIJHkIsvMNxpX1h3G52nEy60YFhtc_XOwWDwYTskCC5YPqDZ1Ji4oiTDGcmSpYN58zIyTbO1vr8PeZ/s2048/IMG_0720.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgocAuKZEEDRyAhhcuhsmPDXXWdd-9367SYv741nn0ukd-9JnB51Q29f3aZWSL3GpKIJHkIsvMNxpX1h3G52nEy60YFhtc_XOwWDwYTskCC5YPqDZ1Ji4oiTDGcmSpYN58zIyTbO1vr8PeZ/w300-h400/IMG_0720.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fatsia japonica</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcYdIMZ9Ozjw-0KQDmv_xcOXoAh5Lmu09vnyU_WGq8VZEwEiZjOB8JU6syLnPgQCJqj75pzJ_mBuBtxLu8N07xJOIRqJAWzeeC5AGFZhyphenhyphenWEVi9FUg91XA8tZMdRR1SOedE_5wXcV7nYPp/s2048/IMG_0739.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcYdIMZ9Ozjw-0KQDmv_xcOXoAh5Lmu09vnyU_WGq8VZEwEiZjOB8JU6syLnPgQCJqj75pzJ_mBuBtxLu8N07xJOIRqJAWzeeC5AGFZhyphenhyphenWEVi9FUg91XA8tZMdRR1SOedE_5wXcV7nYPp/w300-h400/IMG_0739.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowdrops and Palm (Sabal minor?) </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /><br />From Jane Collins' garden in Arlington, VA: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwFn9PLKnjJlIVPqXT8a2mME-PDqd3YbZcGSIkJylvUeKHT-Re9-MQaeZUWZ12AulSwvRrCjZC7yarjvUM2fogUeY49UzKwzkfDCSF-28oRzxvjGop_0nz51y1dPRll-VEZIpMpyQN1Wu/s2048/Collins+arcto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwFn9PLKnjJlIVPqXT8a2mME-PDqd3YbZcGSIkJylvUeKHT-Re9-MQaeZUWZ12AulSwvRrCjZC7yarjvUM2fogUeY49UzKwzkfDCSF-28oRzxvjGop_0nz51y1dPRll-VEZIpMpyQN1Wu/w400-h300/Collins+arcto.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arctostaphylos uva-ursi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><!--[endif]--></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUN3u6k9k0AwX8Mbgu-0eTYnhcozOofA_poBwsszSzKPMwZEtMhCHJon3GzHzd9gI0wzzu63mmZ3Oo9tLxkAykrEVFFbUeQk74F3MVGN8nHbLwNUPVxEQ-wxG1ENPJCulTL-TO9WfUoBmY/s2048/Collins+dryopteris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUN3u6k9k0AwX8Mbgu-0eTYnhcozOofA_poBwsszSzKPMwZEtMhCHJon3GzHzd9gI0wzzu63mmZ3Oo9tLxkAykrEVFFbUeQk74F3MVGN8nHbLwNUPVxEQ-wxG1ENPJCulTL-TO9WfUoBmY/w300-h400/Collins+dryopteris.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dryopteris sieboldii</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From Nancy Blois' garden at the north edge of Baltimore city, MD:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39txd-aLAFhos5rwGvTnUYrf50KfeyQszWF22MMzkG5yRa5ZDcCQeAe90c2hws02nO6ENd5IDeeUAiGecNQwfSEZAOWRZS7bGkYAihDK_JxxolXTaWdRS-sfMp-XvP47af9l9dK8AlXto/s2048/IMG-5825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39txd-aLAFhos5rwGvTnUYrf50KfeyQszWF22MMzkG5yRa5ZDcCQeAe90c2hws02nO6ENd5IDeeUAiGecNQwfSEZAOWRZS7bGkYAihDK_JxxolXTaWdRS-sfMp-XvP47af9l9dK8AlXto/w300-h400/IMG-5825.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edgeworthia </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN7HHCLMnp_t4bdv0M5SaaGNYkDmTTWLys170JW7SPaDek76ShEIR3AtO8I-L5MumZvIHRlN3gAfkwSAe3_9acEiTIOJ6VqPK-fve-UKT938d4Ym6o0QeXeWpmGY73J13OCNMRKdTc5-q/s2048/IMG-5828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN7HHCLMnp_t4bdv0M5SaaGNYkDmTTWLys170JW7SPaDek76ShEIR3AtO8I-L5MumZvIHRlN3gAfkwSAe3_9acEiTIOJ6VqPK-fve-UKT938d4Ym6o0QeXeWpmGY73J13OCNMRKdTc5-q/s320/IMG-5828.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lonicera 'Major Wheeler'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv160c6Ktm8czvYZZvKlY1tsC_H-tV1bofiyeckbEFW5i9B6a_SrEusqlZrczlMbYOgQrSLuUAHPEplYkhYMeEaWP8ZXAC3hIvcMJtfCu8FXIwhoh2gdYsTYY6iWyq37xjQyz5EUcL-aD/s2048/IMG-5829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv160c6Ktm8czvYZZvKlY1tsC_H-tV1bofiyeckbEFW5i9B6a_SrEusqlZrczlMbYOgQrSLuUAHPEplYkhYMeEaWP8ZXAC3hIvcMJtfCu8FXIwhoh2gdYsTYY6iWyq37xjQyz5EUcL-aD/s320/IMG-5829.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L. 'Major Wheeler'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBwxbDo9s8mvu78if81t6dltzU58R4MUSXx3matsNkKk0qpLkQJu4H8Sc90Mgl66KLa6D1U-0GzCPymPb1wRycLCDDVTGNKB3UqzSGn6aI1AQjpWg7Fm0PW-0mOOffzcLVfI8spw0Gowc/s2048/IMG-5832.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBwxbDo9s8mvu78if81t6dltzU58R4MUSXx3matsNkKk0qpLkQJu4H8Sc90Mgl66KLa6D1U-0GzCPymPb1wRycLCDDVTGNKB3UqzSGn6aI1AQjpWg7Fm0PW-0mOOffzcLVfI8spw0Gowc/s320/IMG-5832.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus niger 'HGC Jacob' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From Michael Young's Washington, DC, crevice garden:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Hk9c3LThKvjF1lkGzgYty0tbC16pXpEyM8564IYp4H1ZYeVjtQemFliFaMmN7SDExG9n6zB4kHDOU9d6ZREo9M4oJgMlMfaseH_Y7tAwqm5TL8VJDbKkStnmiLX1h-YEWhi4H2cHhhuW/s640/IMG_4224.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Hk9c3LThKvjF1lkGzgYty0tbC16pXpEyM8564IYp4H1ZYeVjtQemFliFaMmN7SDExG9n6zB4kHDOU9d6ZREo9M4oJgMlMfaseH_Y7tAwqm5TL8VJDbKkStnmiLX1h-YEWhi4H2cHhhuW/w400-h300/IMG_4224.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Titanopsis calcerea about to pop</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;">From Jim Hughes garden in University Park, MD:</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-vy9bBmce8b0OrxPAZOfFSCSWt15t3HX1f9uhgmH8vuJHIfonGn6GdtVyuqhUeGBhiF2QHKfZmIgHRAEqoxPChUydyg-AVi-90lXrZbrYdEnnIDvroDTsRebScYAhAwF-g6-PnhLOxm-/s2048/Fatsia+japonica+Spider+Web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-vy9bBmce8b0OrxPAZOfFSCSWt15t3HX1f9uhgmH8vuJHIfonGn6GdtVyuqhUeGBhiF2QHKfZmIgHRAEqoxPChUydyg-AVi-90lXrZbrYdEnnIDvroDTsRebScYAhAwF-g6-PnhLOxm-/w225-h400/Fatsia+japonica+Spider+Web.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx2Wus3KeUJ9pSYNkc3xxMk3CguMtE3sBl0dc8eR49Y4OO2oM7gpcqo1McWrZA6aJkmHp86_P563LtGsAORRwIlK86hkZWWlpic9KaCOJ7bRxs2dinigbr2LBj6LxptsW-IMmw8QS9Kzv9/s2048/Abuliton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx2Wus3KeUJ9pSYNkc3xxMk3CguMtE3sBl0dc8eR49Y4OO2oM7gpcqo1McWrZA6aJkmHp86_P563LtGsAORRwIlK86hkZWWlpic9KaCOJ7bRxs2dinigbr2LBj6LxptsW-IMmw8QS9Kzv9/w225-h400/Abuliton.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abutilon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7YUfi4rACxmBequjaPNY9CYfRcklw6xGR2tBMJtup1mEM1hAruNyELLcOkLgUGiDFT3ydE02YALfRnFFHNl6MmhmYqzjL75dtGUygCtPdlXOOcbx2q7j2E25-rLItZu04MBQXFIwnGDJ/s2048/Aloe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7YUfi4rACxmBequjaPNY9CYfRcklw6xGR2tBMJtup1mEM1hAruNyELLcOkLgUGiDFT3ydE02YALfRnFFHNl6MmhmYqzjL75dtGUygCtPdlXOOcbx2q7j2E25-rLItZu04MBQXFIwnGDJ/w225-h400/Aloe.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aloe</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPK3-6cYT_yapxDt9CMdc2Z1q7Zp56tD_4NGifm4L-rZk_F6SgPyTb3S9px6Pqn4Bezrlkz_XYrrealjfvwyz8A0DzM1ybPnSMOv4pzK5J75yEOGDlLL4urUNmWRCzsSC3wFezbKnxA9jZ/s2048/Galanthus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPK3-6cYT_yapxDt9CMdc2Z1q7Zp56tD_4NGifm4L-rZk_F6SgPyTb3S9px6Pqn4Bezrlkz_XYrrealjfvwyz8A0DzM1ybPnSMOv4pzK5J75yEOGDlLL4urUNmWRCzsSC3wFezbKnxA9jZ/w400-h225/Galanthus.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Galanthus</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA99b-T9LUdt6bzNrWJi3fozY1BOvhx3Tr4I4h43zffSG9_G2qCFJHDcQWB3bOZjnWJK9c7O5K-ZE-Y4MUOq5PoFH-IwmzJ98RL378dfzQv8jMgtg2PyWKyA79vFIAktJLU8yrwNS4UZr_/s2048/Hellebore+hybrid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA99b-T9LUdt6bzNrWJi3fozY1BOvhx3Tr4I4h43zffSG9_G2qCFJHDcQWB3bOZjnWJK9c7O5K-ZE-Y4MUOq5PoFH-IwmzJ98RL378dfzQv8jMgtg2PyWKyA79vFIAktJLU8yrwNS4UZr_/w400-h225/Hellebore+hybrid.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYhjefCKR0-N1U381zUNc3_I-ELXYaaVLxwpKCqhHBWueNzPFoiYAtuP_NldoVZFAiXK1hGZfXPJ1ozDYktP0QDj2m3LwcnQktM5ALoTsoFrBpe9Nbt9VNbTBcjX7YqzLJwqsGAk32qQu/s2048/Mahonia+Winters+Sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYhjefCKR0-N1U381zUNc3_I-ELXYaaVLxwpKCqhHBWueNzPFoiYAtuP_NldoVZFAiXK1hGZfXPJ1ozDYktP0QDj2m3LwcnQktM5ALoTsoFrBpe9Nbt9VNbTBcjX7YqzLJwqsGAk32qQu/w225-h400/Mahonia+Winters+Sun.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahonia 'Winters Sun'</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifoZN4ksh-nLw1ly9njCFYV6LZ3NRZaGhX5yL9DKKfBtMKria7K5mzGM6pTceP6H_XBIOJZQGLO6GOlQitdqLm8sswpZruV0KDMkx_5clai1rjcJAjo23cFY7ufS0dFrErHwVXc7VWMlVQ/s2048/Mammillaria+plumosa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifoZN4ksh-nLw1ly9njCFYV6LZ3NRZaGhX5yL9DKKfBtMKria7K5mzGM6pTceP6H_XBIOJZQGLO6GOlQitdqLm8sswpZruV0KDMkx_5clai1rjcJAjo23cFY7ufS0dFrErHwVXc7VWMlVQ/w400-h225/Mammillaria+plumosa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mammalaria plumosa</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP6QTVsf3nxshxH4NCKeg-mg6-MDALIeMbZUBE5MG93-hE3re-OdaOn_SgoT3TqLrO9Bl3EAOiD5damZvO_I4xub5IStod4dZbtQNurGq0uWRZ6PScnhRwGjeOxnTQrzrowEp6B8R3z_pb/s2048/Skimmia+japonica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP6QTVsf3nxshxH4NCKeg-mg6-MDALIeMbZUBE5MG93-hE3re-OdaOn_SgoT3TqLrO9Bl3EAOiD5damZvO_I4xub5IStod4dZbtQNurGq0uWRZ6PScnhRwGjeOxnTQrzrowEp6B8R3z_pb/w225-h400/Skimmia+japonica.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skimmia japonica</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;">Galanthus and H. x ericsmithii are blooming in Dick Hammerschlag's Highland, MD, garden as well as the Hellebore below. </o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguHFtlaylEOMLbnF_Zqe377aDaDR_4Ilalh11qAjy6_fNa-9-MXTXgMW33J-1j5O5TyjQ35E7xXvF50vBUrbjEdPoJDVPeSN5UR-pYBt0zsg4on44d862AsAwPi3y33jIZ6iO96snaRoys/s5184/HammerIMG_0739.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguHFtlaylEOMLbnF_Zqe377aDaDR_4Ilalh11qAjy6_fNa-9-MXTXgMW33J-1j5O5TyjQ35E7xXvF50vBUrbjEdPoJDVPeSN5UR-pYBt0zsg4on44d862AsAwPi3y33jIZ6iO96snaRoys/w400-h300/HammerIMG_0739.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helloborus niger 'HGC Jacob' </td></tr></tbody></table><br />From the garden of John Willis in Frederick, MD: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhLUQUHA6pBTV2VSuSGl16ZDU1djukg5sv8982n3vLtXpzxSPVbiAufUWYxjVuCmbXCXP5glnLydtYGEGmkalzB2O39df5w-m7bsGbWhrK5gHrL0eG2uK5jR2oV0MDUeumwJTDIOR4RH2/s1280/Willis+camellia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhLUQUHA6pBTV2VSuSGl16ZDU1djukg5sv8982n3vLtXpzxSPVbiAufUWYxjVuCmbXCXP5glnLydtYGEGmkalzB2O39df5w-m7bsGbWhrK5gHrL0eG2uK5jR2oV0MDUeumwJTDIOR4RH2/w300-h400/Willis+camellia.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camellia sasanqua</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7QQj25JV3dIeSgtK46enW2N-psCRD1XeivIyNR5ZL2G5AVM-sn7Z7N0qVNVLmsgbbdFVq1MgBYUeKDpyqjLksnS41FwriXCB8QKdfVTx8crWpRLzD-oCBltn4c6o9W4VZoLBFdHBMVM-/s1280/Willis+Erica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7QQj25JV3dIeSgtK46enW2N-psCRD1XeivIyNR5ZL2G5AVM-sn7Z7N0qVNVLmsgbbdFVq1MgBYUeKDpyqjLksnS41FwriXCB8QKdfVTx8crWpRLzD-oCBltn4c6o9W4VZoLBFdHBMVM-/w400-h300/Willis+Erica.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erica x darleyensis 'Kramer's Rote'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfw2LX03cuvOfODsXRSx1cK8L340tWv7fYk1AEam6ThU5-2BWoqn6TQD8W__JWtl9GqByYDZ5Ybt6FkeyR0w7mQYshL-SzKdZZxXda20YfzmEGpKUX_PVpHrythcdajm2ANfPKnLuyWvC2/s1280/Willis+Galanthus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfw2LX03cuvOfODsXRSx1cK8L340tWv7fYk1AEam6ThU5-2BWoqn6TQD8W__JWtl9GqByYDZ5Ybt6FkeyR0w7mQYshL-SzKdZZxXda20YfzmEGpKUX_PVpHrythcdajm2ANfPKnLuyWvC2/w400-h300/Willis+Galanthus.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Galanthus elwesii </td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsg9gFp2Nm0p8dbHgdvW94j4tRi7RocRiQrmJQ3iVXxU0D9-SUYq8COA4mKt8C9ibXzDEOIN_SxMp_SAuoofoIUinnu4lU0jaJ8FhUAwoFasAAZcpHoNgRi4FQlJs_Je-PzE138IwfCRWY/s1280/Willis+greenh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsg9gFp2Nm0p8dbHgdvW94j4tRi7RocRiQrmJQ3iVXxU0D9-SUYq8COA4mKt8C9ibXzDEOIN_SxMp_SAuoofoIUinnu4lU0jaJ8FhUAwoFasAAZcpHoNgRi4FQlJs_Je-PzE138IwfCRWY/w300-h400/Willis+greenh.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haemanthus deformis</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-q65JSuPKA1zRh8DFIjKw0GN10qKZho3ydWQ-RXJH2BbG8T0pIl_OV4G6eRfMNdsVZGI19SDPh9AHD3EkHl9pVF69tphyphenhyphenSk5zoXbWoWvKaTyBUODhBDuJqd55iVfFiaDMqNbm-b_Lt15/s1280/Willis+helleb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-q65JSuPKA1zRh8DFIjKw0GN10qKZho3ydWQ-RXJH2BbG8T0pIl_OV4G6eRfMNdsVZGI19SDPh9AHD3EkHl9pVF69tphyphenhyphenSk5zoXbWoWvKaTyBUODhBDuJqd55iVfFiaDMqNbm-b_Lt15/w400-h300/Willis+helleb.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus niger 'HGC Jacob' </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI0LGw4eX-kCToMgbqYsctmb0xcFfAq-v1cWaei-tCwkX7nfm5kn8NG8M-uhxKhdybfA5LIB6rMetzEf4zqjcEdOZmB5fn9vlfW5gBFIsefTuVx_2cECUWn8lvCrpH7jAby59U0OvJX2rK/s1280/Willis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI0LGw4eX-kCToMgbqYsctmb0xcFfAq-v1cWaei-tCwkX7nfm5kn8NG8M-uhxKhdybfA5LIB6rMetzEf4zqjcEdOZmB5fn9vlfW5gBFIsefTuVx_2cECUWn8lvCrpH7jAby59U0OvJX2rK/w400-h300/Willis.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aubretia 'Blue Beauty'</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Blooming in Judy Zatsick's Fairfax Station, VA, garden: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigXJgJhV8ZlyfUDW7CAVoc9Bv_WDwkDHlwBHy_Tqp4yS8T5tJSDqusoy6-ePOKydWNqthd7MDReCywqglP5OYYlGo_JnVCwVZF0Q3Z8ozmtbYSJgMEqE6h4Y2zlenpbHfxGIgWL4NrsMhR/s2048/PXL_20201230_200806337.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigXJgJhV8ZlyfUDW7CAVoc9Bv_WDwkDHlwBHy_Tqp4yS8T5tJSDqusoy6-ePOKydWNqthd7MDReCywqglP5OYYlGo_JnVCwVZF0Q3Z8ozmtbYSJgMEqE6h4Y2zlenpbHfxGIgWL4NrsMhR/w300-h400/PXL_20201230_200806337.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phlomis russeliana about to pop </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKhU3waV3x9JYHSrSH14EsalO6pj4JV5VbL6b0SAIDbrlopmtXqLD4pGpO_ERAT1uYgWePE_hXEOa-_ouIrGdvKQXsMGiZfX5TxzikIH9_HDY6nn31MthkyW3leSPU8NATLjPx3jLiO1fZ/s4032/PXL_20201230_201312644.PORTRAIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKhU3waV3x9JYHSrSH14EsalO6pj4JV5VbL6b0SAIDbrlopmtXqLD4pGpO_ERAT1uYgWePE_hXEOa-_ouIrGdvKQXsMGiZfX5TxzikIH9_HDY6nn31MthkyW3leSPU8NATLjPx3jLiO1fZ/w300-h400/PXL_20201230_201312644.PORTRAIT.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danae racemosa</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKhU3waV3x9JYHSrSH14EsalO6pj4JV5VbL6b0SAIDbrlopmtXqLD4pGpO_ERAT1uYgWePE_hXEOa-_ouIrGdvKQXsMGiZfX5TxzikIH9_HDY6nn31MthkyW3leSPU8NATLjPx3jLiO1fZ/s4032/PXL_20201230_201312644.PORTRAIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRt0uLlLINzAvAMkB3PU-ZSra8sMuCQYp1nD-4AWA5t0hAg_Dgjs-qQ9gg-6Zr9GuJWhEBEN9wVcfIta8S_f3-QuYgkOKfWX6MJa5lNNm_vjg36x7BycvWmpufLoaoHU9r_AiqrmNyhtVK/s2048/PXL_20201231_190415626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRt0uLlLINzAvAMkB3PU-ZSra8sMuCQYp1nD-4AWA5t0hAg_Dgjs-qQ9gg-6Zr9GuJWhEBEN9wVcfIta8S_f3-QuYgkOKfWX6MJa5lNNm_vjg36x7BycvWmpufLoaoHU9r_AiqrmNyhtVK/w300-h400/PXL_20201231_190415626.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matrix True Blue Pansy</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaQ4p3hKqVUMLfoExwaTWhjPKiFcZdVzBB50JnmTo7gPlHNhnEJpDyLUMhzOE5N_7rWH0p4o3K79SJye_3HRBE_J54W5dFmw27LOIomcNDdxhIEHSoqVE6uI-UHFyfsRlQhACeI0Mlfyw/s2048/PXL_20210102_011232477.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaQ4p3hKqVUMLfoExwaTWhjPKiFcZdVzBB50JnmTo7gPlHNhnEJpDyLUMhzOE5N_7rWH0p4o3K79SJye_3HRBE_J54W5dFmw27LOIomcNDdxhIEHSoqVE6uI-UHFyfsRlQhACeI0Mlfyw/w300-h400/PXL_20210102_011232477.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amaryllis 'Belladonna' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjshz-0EFem_hF9gT8hTBrch-Ss-StgJJ-9O_W_cANgYCsllyULtVB5VO7FKQGpVu86npNo1WxTLz-rz2yEQjdhhwn3dRNUnkhSRyDy5cGTeYuPQ6iwpEJvYFGTEjIeou_f7mvlBOG8oEY1/s2048/PXL_20210102_161142791.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjshz-0EFem_hF9gT8hTBrch-Ss-StgJJ-9O_W_cANgYCsllyULtVB5VO7FKQGpVu86npNo1WxTLz-rz2yEQjdhhwn3dRNUnkhSRyDy5cGTeYuPQ6iwpEJvYFGTEjIeou_f7mvlBOG8oEY1/w300-h400/PXL_20210102_161142791.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helleborus ' Pink Frost' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMVckTrr838VHnilK04pywdH5nN-mAhD2fXcpCf-4rWyo0GzxUwzCBoa5ZD1l6VLy6UTFPN6TYMRmHkwrgJh13lLz_hbqHmUCoY3148rT2JDe4onFWg58CQHx7DYeWFYnVEx22S7rNlpj/s2048/PXL_20210102_161240334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMVckTrr838VHnilK04pywdH5nN-mAhD2fXcpCf-4rWyo0GzxUwzCBoa5ZD1l6VLy6UTFPN6TYMRmHkwrgJh13lLz_hbqHmUCoY3148rT2JDe4onFWg58CQHx7DYeWFYnVEx22S7rNlpj/s320/PXL_20210102_161240334.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosemary </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">And, from my garden in Arlington, VA: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkrssSqbgQDhk3vwystZamG9DEfU5y8aMcjfkP3rytw6JHkbTgYuxHpJ6UZ6VHzII40KGdh_9h11-QPP6J-MN12fe43DbUbl_n4QDjUeOm5euf8XKIIlL2ZU-vsCrtrDUmvGuFcrKfYlUE/s2016/sas+Crypto+IMG_9103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkrssSqbgQDhk3vwystZamG9DEfU5y8aMcjfkP3rytw6JHkbTgYuxHpJ6UZ6VHzII40KGdh_9h11-QPP6J-MN12fe43DbUbl_n4QDjUeOm5euf8XKIIlL2ZU-vsCrtrDUmvGuFcrKfYlUE/s320/sas+Crypto+IMG_9103.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cryptomeria japonica 'Tansu' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj981J7rR03Ikx6yCtJQ7TYAepANVt3S0wVsaHHTtC08E03ZWbW-DCPWCxugxH0SlT2LkBLDo1A42ETYw11HWp7-lkmRza4F0u8m3Tw2w2ERjF94W_RbQa9nyZZ7ozwMRkwswQehUWDJFpY/s1512/sas+edgeIMG_9084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj981J7rR03Ikx6yCtJQ7TYAepANVt3S0wVsaHHTtC08E03ZWbW-DCPWCxugxH0SlT2LkBLDo1A42ETYw11HWp7-lkmRza4F0u8m3Tw2w2ERjF94W_RbQa9nyZZ7ozwMRkwswQehUWDJFpY/s320/sas+edgeIMG_9084.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edgeworthia chrysantha 'Gold Finch' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHlPPn0USRPMhYQDo9PRXxqypx2whm9KS0JuXoRXLRUJKJN1p-4iXXOG7PPk9T3rEy-nLt7nnb0qIrD4bkvlvyIeIfJYxmcx9RLmQXeJBE8VK1GkhPOxWrEJfsF_9eYLh1Pfm398XQNZ0/s2016/sas+fat+sw+IMG_9092+%2528002%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHlPPn0USRPMhYQDo9PRXxqypx2whm9KS0JuXoRXLRUJKJN1p-4iXXOG7PPk9T3rEy-nLt7nnb0qIrD4bkvlvyIeIfJYxmcx9RLmQXeJBE8VK1GkhPOxWrEJfsF_9eYLh1Pfm398XQNZ0/s320/sas+fat+sw+IMG_9092+%2528002%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' with Rohdea japonica</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9m2aeq3N4_vEQK9rfkmnB2I25TSZzgCdQNA52vVEZ6SRaJLAn68URY2TXCcitigrBn9RODnzCO3Q-rsdVRjyeZixwSwEsIgAvBdiHwyHsKsqvdoZVspIWVsdxm_GHd5qWnz07Q_3g9qPt/s2016/sas+fjaponIMG_9095+%2528002%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9m2aeq3N4_vEQK9rfkmnB2I25TSZzgCdQNA52vVEZ6SRaJLAn68URY2TXCcitigrBn9RODnzCO3Q-rsdVRjyeZixwSwEsIgAvBdiHwyHsKsqvdoZVspIWVsdxm_GHd5qWnz07Q_3g9qPt/s320/sas+fjaponIMG_9095+%2528002%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fatsia japonica </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfY2sB_u8OTqi1I2ZoeCZRNCcLGBxJKQim_RHyVoqug9xSCqaP8NeB9NIptCwtWUVTa81kEQBU0WNKNtduzQKdAUzcPRg77xMReOzktHa5vjR0N8Nd9vuv7pm4H1S4cLpEO4Uw6w1Cbqny/s2016/sas+conniog+IMG_9102+%2528002%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfY2sB_u8OTqi1I2ZoeCZRNCcLGBxJKQim_RHyVoqug9xSCqaP8NeB9NIptCwtWUVTa81kEQBU0WNKNtduzQKdAUzcPRg77xMReOzktHa5vjR0N8Nd9vuv7pm4H1S4cLpEO4Uw6w1Cbqny/s320/sas+conniog+IMG_9102+%2528002%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coniogramme intermedia 'Yoroi Musha' <br />(naturally mutating fern; no two fronds are alike) </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Thanks to all who participated. Happy New Year! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></o:p></span><p></p>Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-76539316197777858562020-12-09T10:25:00.007-08:002020-12-09T10:30:29.846-08:00Scenes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge: Eastern Shore of Maryland<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjj8b5XnhOjNx409Qwcw86wB6aNcYd6vQzW8VCCsHMy3oGAcl1ugz0E8pVxiQNN6HzS3E-f2g18K1v4478guAcZZvk9fF8yKl6hGA58eejn2OgpggBM1xd-7eJD6JyRowW8VBKUOwz0cZ/s2100/strickler_201109_2-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We started at Karen Offut's garden, originally designed by Oehme Van Sweden, I think back in the 1980s. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back toward the road where you enter the property and drive along this allee of Sugar maples. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful old weeping cherry that was there when they arrived. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">witch hazel near front door, which is just to right out of picture. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this could by Lythrum virgatum 'Dropmore Purple' or 'Mordens Gleam' NOT the very invasive L. salicifolia </td></tr>
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#2 stop, the garden and nursery of Carol Warner (Draycott Gardens). Among other things, she has the biggest, most spectacular Franklinia I have ever seen. (There used to be a pretty big one at AHS, now gone, but this one is probably twice the size.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's a big kousa dogwood flowering on the right and to the LEFT is the HUGE Franklinia, covered in buds It must be 30 feet all at least!! Oh to see it in bloom, which Carol says isn't until August/ September. Later than in DC area. </td></tr>
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Our last stop was the Thompson garden. I didn't hear much of the owner's spiel, but someone who did says he designs pools (has a hort background) and his wife used to be an antique dealer, hence the many interesting sculpture throughout the garden. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back at pool. That's forsythia on the left and sylphium (maybe perfoliatum) on the right </td></tr>
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One thing I'm sorry I missed shooting was the creatively sited and planted veg garden on the side of the pool house. You can literally pluck a fig from the tree while lounging by the pool. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim, I think this could be Silene armeria, not the one you had on your list. </td></tr>
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<br />Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-19084685426210989722019-10-03T16:16:00.002-07:002019-10-03T16:18:57.880-07:00Revised Beach Compositions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In the previous iteration, I had vignetted most of these thinking it would add depth or interest, whatever... I reversed most if not all of that to get rid of shadows and it made the backgrounds somewhat more unified. The result is flatter images, but it may shift the focus more on the details and components of the images?? </div>
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I also amped up the color and, in some cases, slightly darkened the center of the arrangement to add depth and bring out details. I straightened and adjusted cropping where it seemed necessary. But many are slightly lopsided so no perfection there. </div>
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Reduced contrast on most. </div>
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Not sure how to unify tone...... per se. </div>
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We are visiting outer Cape Cod for a couple of weeks. This is a gallery of still life, nature morte, beach sculpture -- I am not sure what to call it -- I have been making from whatever I find nearby on a beach or along the Pamet marsh: shells, plant parts, seaweed, crustacean parts, and occasionally something human made. I construct them on the sand -- as smooth and pristine an area as I can find -- and then photograph them. The beaches of this part of the Cape around Truro are abundant with interesting detritus. </div>
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Materials are almost all natural; surprisingly, I'm not finding as much plastic trash on the beach as I seem to remember. Could there be less now? It is hard to believe. The human-made debris I see most includes small thick rubber bands, like the ones used to truss a lobster claw, and nylon rope.<br />
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Crabs and lobsters are molting so crab carapace and lobster claws are plentiful on the beach. I had forgotten that lobsters can lose a limb and grow a new one!! Amazing creatures.<br />
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I'm not sure how this all started. I have certainly tried my hand at photographing still life scenes. But this is different because the process of creating the composition is more elaborate and a creative act in itself.<br />
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My husband has pointed out that some of these suggest female anatomy. Not my intention, though I acknowledge it is up to the eye of the beholder. I will say that symmetry plays a big part in these designs. I am not sure I can articulate the desire to use it -- it is somehow satisfying and pleasing to see pairs matching up around a central axis. Our bodies are designed that way, maybe that's why it seems so innate to look for balance. Adding symmetry around an axis can feel like resolution.<br />
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It is a lot of fun to build these and find inspiration in the beautiful colors, textures, shapes, and design of the mix of living and dead debris at the shoreline. Well it is not all debris, I have used living plant parts as the vast dunes and heath edges here offer an interesting array of blooms (asters, goldenrod, Little bluestem, bittersweet berries) leaf color and texture. It is a challenge to see if I can incorporate a new material each time, though I have not been keeping track.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A face can emerge in an object like the crab shell above, morphing into a bull's head (nostrils where the crab eyes would be) and a Minotaur-like creature is spawned. </span></div>
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A photograph can reveal something I did not see as I was creating the arrangement. I now see a woman's face above, the clams forming a kind of late 1930]s upswept hairstyle (or she is wearing a turban), the yellow rubber band her mouth, seaweed forming eyelashes and dangly earrings.<br />
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The seaweed is priceless as an element, I think. Such beautiful colors and textures, and such variety available on the outer Cape. Pulling them apart from the heaps they can form on the beach is a discovery of the richness of plant life in the ocean, perhaps more diverse than on land? Do we know?<br />
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And it is fun when a seemingly extraneous object -- a broken crab shell turned upside down -- can become a jagged gaping mouth. (Above)<br />
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Substitute the tip of a crab leg for her mouth (that extra-orange color caught my eye) and give her a stony nose and she it transformed. I happen to think she looks like a caricature of Meryl Streep. Am I nuts? It is the eye of the beholder.<br />
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Today is a new day. Will there be a number 24? I imagine so, though I don't think I will be able to keep up the pace this coming week. I may need to slow down.... It also depends on where I am and what Cape treasure is available!Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-57367472799310243812019-09-06T08:22:00.004-07:002019-09-15T07:25:31.244-07:00Saving Sarracenia: Pitcher Plants at Meadowview Biological Research Station<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
“Our goal is to preserve and restore a part of our natural bog heritage by returning the
endangered Yellow Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia flava, and the Purple Pitcher Plant,
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So states the prospectus of Joseph Pines Preserve, one of two conservation areas established by the non-profit <a href="http://www.pitcherplant.org/index.html">Meadowview Biological Research Station</a>. Founded in 1995 by Dr. Phil Sheridan, an ecologist steeped in the study of Pitcher Plant biology, the organization is headquartered at the 17-acre Central Virginia Preserve, in Caroline County, 25 minutes south of Fredericksburg, VA, on a rare gravel bog. Joseph Pines Preserve, a much larger tract of more than 200 acres, is the site of extensive long-leaf pine restoration and successful reintroduction of native Yellow Pitcher Plants. JPP is about 45 miles south of Richmond in Suffolk County, VA, where Long-leaf pine historically existed at its northernmost limit. Together the two preserves comprise a little more than 250 acres of land set aside to protect and/or restore bog and Long-leaf pine habitat and associated flora and fauna. </div>
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Four of us from the <a href="https://www.nargs.org/chapter/potomac-valley-chapter">Potomac Valley Chapter</a> visited the Central Virginia Preserve in mid-June. Meadowview welcomes visitors, but requires you make an appointment in advance. Many weekends during the spring and fall, Phil and a couple of interns are busy making the rounds of plant sales, so we visited during the week.<br />
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To help finance their research and restoration projects, Meadowview propagates and sells dozens of varieties of Sarracenia, including many ornamental cultivars and hybrids with dazzling colors and patterns. Make a <a href="http://www.pitcherplant.org/Online-Catalog/index.html">donation </a>of $25 or more and you receive 50% off plant prices!! A catalog of plants is available on their website, including sundews, venus flytrap, and associate bog plants. <br />
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Encroaching development is always a looming threat. So Phil is not just a scientist but become part entrepreneur, community organizer, public relations man and business administrator to expand his organization's conservation areas. And expand they have.<br />
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The Joseph Pines Preserve nearly doubled in size when Meadowview secured a loan from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality in 2009 to buy 134 acres for land conservation. And in 2014 they also purchased, with a combination of donations and grant monies, a former private home adjacent to the JPP, which they converted into a education and biodiversity center. It is amazing what this small, grass-roots organization, with no paid employees (interns do receive free housing and a modest stipend), has accomplished.<br />
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These S. purpurea above were rescued from a site in Caroline County where Pitcher plants have since been extirpated. According to Phil, " They will 'color-up' (becoming more red) in the fall after the surrounding hardwoods lose their leaves. We need to remove more trees to increase light levels, says Phil. "However, S. purpurea can handle lower light levels, and as you can see, was flowering quite well."<br />
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This Purple Pitcher plant bog is the northernmost community of these plants in Virginia. <br />
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So you want to grow pitcher plants in your garden? One way is put them in a container filled with a mix of peat and sand in equal proportions. (They like a nutrient poor, acidic environment.) Phil recommends a container with a hole maybe 6 inches up the side (no bottom hole in this case) so that the plants remain saturated below the soil surface but excess water will drain off the top. </div>
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I know other PVC members have slightly different but also successful arrangements. Judy Z., for instance, grows her Sarracenia in a container with no drainage hole. Kevin M. and Dick H. have created in-ground bogs by submerging a rubber liner or container. I notice Dick's are growing successfully at woods edge in some shade. So you can experiment somewhat with these plants.</div>
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One aspect of their culture, however, which should not be compromised is watering them with either rainwater or distilled water. Sarracenia do not like the chlorine or chloramine that is in most tap water. Thankfully, I have two rain barrels to supply them with ample water. During this hot summer, I watered them almost daily. Now that I know they are somewhat shade tolerant, I may move them to a less sunny spot. </div>
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We were surprised to learn from Phil that the habitats Meadowview is protecting and restoring do not rate highly with the state's Natural Heritage Program in terms of conservation priority, nor has the Nature Conservancy been interested in working with them. However, S. purpurea is listed as an "Imperiled" plant on NHP website. Without the efforts of a group such as Meadowview, the fate of Virginia's bogs and Long-leaf pine forest would surely be dismal. Consider supporting them and get the benefits of discounted plants!! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-k26uMMjDahYKbUZuBFRJ5er28MF8ynpaEWq8_aqBI7XCbpJzr0vIzHx-_ogm2Em8gJa8S4C1jgYkpyycMFq4aSOJwAfkrkm9qmtw1U6pEeEvbFPvGTIo9WObPQY2J_ASFKmZRy_hkgDh/s1600/strickler_190612_2-99.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1565" data-original-width="1600" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-k26uMMjDahYKbUZuBFRJ5er28MF8ynpaEWq8_aqBI7XCbpJzr0vIzHx-_ogm2Em8gJa8S4C1jgYkpyycMFq4aSOJwAfkrkm9qmtw1U6pEeEvbFPvGTIo9WObPQY2J_ASFKmZRy_hkgDh/s640/strickler_190612_2-99.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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About 3 weeks ago, my photography group went to the grounds of the historic hotel and conference center, <a href="https://airlie.com/">Airlie</a>, just outside of Warrenton, VA. It was was established around the turn of the 20th century by a Philadephia doctor. More of its history is recounted here: <a href="https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/airlie/history.php">https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/airlie/history.php</a></div>
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Below is a gallery of images, with signs of spring beginning to emerge. Thank you Airlie for allowing us to photograph! </div>
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<br />Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-82558212789915116792019-03-18T20:07:00.000-07:002019-03-20T10:28:52.442-07:00Green Spring Gardens, Alexandria, VA, on a Chilly March Morning <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Are we in for another slow spring? I hope so. Blooms last so much longer. The witch hazel at Green Spring are still going strong as is the 'Arnold Promise' in my garden.</div>
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Below the Magnolia stellata is starting to open up. Will it make it all the way without getting zapped by a freeze? Too often magnolias get nipped by frost in this area, looking like dirty hanker chiefs draped in the trees. </div>
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Cornus mas (Cornelian cherry), I assume, is blooming near the historic house.<br />
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And in the greenhouse, some other worldly cactus and agaves<br />
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I'm not sure which witch hazel this is, but it's still looking good. Green Spring has the designated 'national' collection so there is quite an array.<br />
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What makes this place so tantalizing?<br />
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<a href="http://www.chanticleergarden.org/">Chanticleer</a>, outside Philadephia, calls itself a 'pleasure garden.' It is the former estate of Adolph Rosengarten, whose pharmaceutical company eventually merged with Merck, the now giant drug company. It was originally a weekend retreat, then a permanent residence for two generations of the family. Rosengarten's son worked with the first director of Chanticleer to estblish it as a public garden and, thankfully, it is well endowed.<br />
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The garden is a bit of fantasy, a bit of whimsy; traditional gardening is here, but often with a twist.<br />
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And, there are no plant labels, which both delights and enrages me. (Plant lists are available in artfully designed boxes tucked here and there in the garden, and on their website )<br />
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Look at the textures of the Seussian succulents against the ruin above, a folly itself. Chanticleer is a fairy tale that takes you back to childhood's mysterious wood or enchanted forest.<br />
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The gravel garden, below, with chairs like stone thrones look out over the scene below. It's a lovely vantage point.<br />
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Below is a view from this past May, looking up the hill toward the ruin. The stone chairs are just out of sight to the left of the Yucca rostrata near the top of the hill. It's a bit romantic and unruly in charming way.<br />
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We should all consider a gravel garden; it is a chance to stretch the plant palette (think Agaves, yuccas, cactus, succulents, steppe plants, bulbs) and, as I have discovered, many plants I am already growing (or trying to) thrive in a well-draining, leaner soil. With 60 some inches of rain by September (in most of the Mid-Atlantic), 20 inches above average annual rainfall, it's time to move beyond a garden end to end in soil rich in organic matter. Carve out your gravel garden and experiment.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">In Spring the garden comes alive with bulbs. With the ruin as a backdrop and a brooding sky above you get a Wuthering Heights kind of feel.</span><br />
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Originally, the plan was to create a ruin from an existing house on the property, but when that wasn't structurally feasible, the then director, a Brit, decided to raise the house and create a 'new' ruin. It seemed out of place at first, but now, softened by plants, seems less severe.<br />
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There are little miracles throughout the garden --vignettes that stop you in your tracks, to notice the striking plant combinations, innovative use of materials and methods that can transform.<br />
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I love these twisted willow trees; they seem to yearn to 'reach out and touch somebody,' whether for a caress or to strangle, I'm not sure. As this area often displays plants tied to agriculture or a practical function, the oft woven, bent, coiled, and generally pliant willow fits right in. But how often do we display their twistiness while whips are still attached to the tree?<br />
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Gardeners are, of course, behind all this horticultural theater. They are encouraged to experiment, have opportunities to travel or study a new skill, and they 'own' their respective territory -- that is they are assigned to an area and are responsible for its care, maintenance and design for several years until they trade off again. There's a bit of competition between gardeners --I have heard several of the horticulturists give talks about their work at the garden -- but it only seems to spark more creativity.<br />
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I think it's the second year for this meadow of hot-colored annuals (foreground). It 'reads' more meadow in person than in the photo, but maybe it's time to move on to something else, a more defined planting, perhaps. </div>
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Chanticleer's layout maintains some of the traditions of an early 20th century estate garden, such as this cutting garden above and the vegetable garden near by. The most formal areas remain close to the houses (Rosengarten built a house on the property for each of his children though one has been raised,) and the garden grows wilder as you get farther away from them.<br />
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Aside from the beautifully grown plants, there is also wonderful craftsmanship in the chairs, ironwork, fencing, cut flower displays and other artwork. I think most of the chairs are made at Chanticleer, certainly <a href="http://www.danbenarcik.com/garden-chair.html">Dan Bernacik</a>, one of the horticulturists, has kept the 'Wave Hill' chair alive with his workshops and they are well represented throughout the garden. I suspect he has made some of the other chairs as well. <br />
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There are many places to sit at Chanticleer, visitors seem encouraged to linger. During warmer months the garden is open late on Fridays when people are allowed to picnic in the garden. It has become a popular evening. You can spread a blanket on the lawn or sit tucked away in some sheltered nook in the woodland. This is a garden people want to spend time in and they do. </div>
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It might look like plants have a free-for-all in this garden, but not really. Yes, there is a lot of self-sowing going on, I'm a little bit envious of how much, but Anne edits them when they show up in unwanted spots.<br />
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I love the exuberance. While editing happens, plants are also allowed to seek their own equilibrium.<br />
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I think even some of the Acorn squash may have self-sown themselves. How nice!<br />
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This beautiful Salvia usually comes back for Anne. It's in a fairly protected site in front of her house with lots of sun. <br />
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And she is a seed collector. Lucky me, I got some poppy seeds. She has some beautiful colors, though I think the seed heads are quite attractive themselves.<br />
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Anne's Asters were just starting to come on when I took these photos about 3 weeks ago. They are probably glorious now and I'll have to go back for the show as she has quite a collection.<br />
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Helianthus tuberosus is a prolific yellow composite and, of course, you can eat the tubers, though I don't really know what to do with them. Anne says "One of my books says it 'may be difficult to eradicate.' There's no 'maybe' about it. After they bloom I yank them out. I have two -- the wild one and one that grew out of a Jerusalem artichoke from the grocery store. The difference is in the root. The grocery store one has nice bulbous roots, like knobbly potatoes, the wild one has thick fleshy roots --like thick fingers--that break off when you yank them."<br />
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Yes, the plants are even allowed the cracks in the driveway. The tall plant (below) is an Artemisia, which to me smells like Santolina. The appealing, pungent aroma is released each time Anne backs out of the driveway and over the plant. Now that's a tough plant and a gardener who knows how to appreciate them!<br />
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Here's Newcomb Hollow Beach this past Thursday evening. We were on this lovely Welfleet, Massachusetts, beach for a friend's neighborhood pot luck and bonfire. Sadly, a young man died as a result of injuries from a Great White shark attack in the middle of the following day on this same beach.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Arriving around 5:30 pm, we scratched our heads, watching dozens of surfers in the water at shark 'feeding' time. The invincibility of youth? The pictures don't show it, but a group of a dozen or more surfers and a few paddle boarders were clustered together. Supposedly there is some safety in numbers, or so I've read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Generally, sharks tend to hunt in the late afternoon, evening and early morning. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Yet this most recent shark-related fatality -- the first in 80 some years-- happened in the middle of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I imagine local officials are reeling from the news and the varying reactions from tourists and locals. The sharks have always been present, but as the seal population has exploded -- they remain on the endangered list -- shark sightings are increasing. I suspect there is also more tracking going on than ever before. It's not uncommon to see planes circling overhead at an ocean side beach as pilots try and spot Great whites from above. And the <a href="http://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/sharktivity-map/">Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's "Sharktivity" app</a> has enabled thousands to follow shark sightings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fisherman push to to cull the seal population (some scientists say it will have little or no effect) as they resent the competition, where as tourists resist any negative impact on the seals. Meanwhile, sharks are benefiting from the resurgence of blubbery seal meat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I think this young woman came out and stayed out of the water while others carried on in the waning light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[In California] </span><a href="http://www.mvmagazine.com/news/2017/08/01/they%E2%80%99re-back"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tisa ot" , "chaparral pro" , serif; font-size: 16px;">“There’s kind of a piece to it where people have come to accept, this is the reality of living in my environment, like a tornado or earthquake or hurricane,” he said. “I totally respect people’s fears about it, but I wonder whether, just because it’s novel here and </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: "Tisa OT", "chaparral Pro", serif; font-size: 16px;">Jaws</em></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tisa ot" , "chaparral pro" , serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.mvmagazine.com/news/2017/08/01/they%E2%80%99re-back"> is the bogeyman of Cape Cod, that this creates a particularly heightened awareness and cultural sensitivity</a>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Can Cape Codders come to accept Great Whites and learn to co-exist? It is a tough question when the loss of life is so fresh. Time will tell. </span><br />
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The wild rice and American lotus were blooming on my first paddle along Mattawoman Creek, a freshwater tributary of the Potomac that winds through Prince George's and Charles County, Maryland. I put in about mid-way up the creek at <a href="https://www.townofindianhead.org/?SEC=8685CA3C-E863-492B-8589-C392B0CA2A28">Mattingly Park boat ramp</a> in Indian Head, MD, and headed upstream away from the Potomac.<br />
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It's a beautiful creek that was a model of pristine conditions up until the early 1990s when development started picking up in Charles County. From what I can glean from reading various reports online, several groups, from local environmentalists to the Sierra Club, pushed the the county to implement a plan to protect the Mattawoman and its surrounding watershed from development and in 2016 the county board finally did. Meanwhile, in June of this year millions of gallons of raw waste flowed into the creek when sewage pumps failed during heavy rains. So it is a somewhat familiar scenario of several steps forward and then a step back. Those pumps need a backup! <br />
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The combination of the lotus, pickerel weed, and wild rice creates beautiful layers.<br />
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I saw dozens of fishermen and women who say they catch bass, snakeheads, perch and other fish. Mattawoman is also known for its anadromous shad and herring, which migrate back to the creek to spawn each year.<br />
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The wild rice is an annual grass, bearing wispy female flowers at the very top of the stem with chunkier male flowers appearing just below. The male flowers develop rice grains. </div>
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Mattawoman has several fingers that stretch out from the main channel and are perfect for exploring in a kayak even with the tide going out, which is was on Saturday morning. Two of the fingers at the very north end wind their way until the tree canopy closes in above; at that point I finally had to turn around as the water became only a few inches deep. It was a pleasant round trip of about 6 to 7 miles. </div>
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No pictures, but egrets, blue herons, kingfishers and killdeer were abundant.<br />
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The remains of an old industrial site sits about a mile up the creek on the right hand side. Surprisingly, I could find no information about its origins. Perhaps it was connected to the Naval Support Facility downstream, which claims to be the Navy's oldest continuously running ordinance station. Did they make munitions here? I would love to hear if anyone knows.<br />
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Try Mattawoman Creek if you're looking for a leisurely paddle with wildlife and beautiful scenery. You won't be disappointed.Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-28793581396164161292018-07-16T07:31:00.002-07:002018-07-16T07:31:42.068-07:00Still Life <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm straying from my usual focus, but I wanted to show these to someone, and posting them was an easy way to do so. These were inspired by still-life paintings posted <a href="https://fotoforum2018.blogspot.com/2018/06/as-requested-here-are-some-shots-of.html">here</a>: <br />
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<br />Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-40332765675150677842018-06-21T09:42:00.001-07:002018-07-16T10:24:42.562-07:00Rhododendrons in the Mist: Hiking Roan Highlands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Finally, I made it to the southern Appalachians to see the native rhododendrons and azaleas blooming in the wild. Don Hyatt of the Potomac Valley chapter of the <a href="https://www.rhododendron.org/">American Rhododendron Society (ARS) </a>is largely responsible for luring me to this visual feast. Also a member of our local rock garden chapter (again a 'Potomac Valley' chapter, but of the <a href="https://nargs.org/">North American Rock Garden Society, NARGS</a>), Don has been visiting the native azaleas and rhododendrons (all are botanically classified as rhododendrons) for a couple of decades. He has shared his travels in presentations for our rock garden chapter, including tantalizing images of expansive views and big swaths of rhododenrons and azaleas in awe inspiring hues. I wanted to see them for myself. </div>
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Don's hiking companion, George Mclellan, unbelievably almost 80-years-old, ( I hope I have his endurance when I am his age), has been coming even longer. They know the plants so intimately they have named several with exceptional characteristics -- 'Big Bird', a big yellow <i>R. calendulaceum,</i> Flame azalea; 'Molten Lava', a glowing yellow-orange one. There are others I can't remember. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rhododendron catawbiense</i>, Catawba rhododendron -- in the mist </td></tr>
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By the time we hiked Roan our group had grown to seven (five of us began the trip in southwestern VA several days earlier), including Charlie Andrews, president of the Azalea chapter of ARS (Georgia), a passionate native azalea expert, and Mike Bamford, also from that chapter and a newbie like me, as neither of us had walked this way before. For Joe or Halit it was a repeat visit.<br />
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Starting at Carver's Gap, 5512 foot elevation, the hike takes you over three balds -- Round Bald, Jane Bald and, finally, Grassy Ridge Bald at 6,165 feet. Beginning in North Carolina, the trail crisscrosses the North Carolina-Tennessee border and follows the Appalachian Trail until it veers off to the right towards Grassy Ridge Bald.<br />
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From a distance, the Catawba rhododendrons appear pruned as they are compact, their lower leaves mostly gone, exposing lichen-covered trunks and their rounded tops are relatively a uniform height. "So patterned is their arrangement that one might think this is a portion of some great estate, a detached portion, perhaps of the fabled Vanderbilt holdings near Asheville," wrote Maurice Brooks about the Roan Highlands in 1965 in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Appalachians-Naturalists-America-Maurice-Brooks/dp/0395074584/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=">T<b>he </b></a></i><b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Appalachians-Naturalists-America-Maurice-Brooks/dp/0395074584/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=">Appalachians</a>. </b><br />
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It is somehow comforting to know that Brooks, a Professor of Wildlife Management at West Virginia University for more than 30 years, retiring in 1969, and an authority on the ecology of the whole Appalachian range, saw more than 50 years ago what I saw. Charlie says the deer are grazing on them, but the altitude and winds have shaped them too, as has the grazing of livestock by local farmers and the Catawba Indians before them.<br />
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Views appeared and disappeared as clouds floated in and out, over and around us. The sun dodged about, suddenly shining on a stretch of landscape set off by darker terrain in the distance still under overcast skies. The changeable light was dramatic. <br />
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Dare I say some of the <i>R. calendulaceum</i> were more beautiful in bud than in flower? The striations of color can be exquisite. These plants typically produce flowers ranging from deep orange-red to pale yellow and everything in between. They bloom for about a four tsix weeks, usually beginning in mid-June. The Flame azalea is the only species on Roan, according to Charlie's excellent article in <i><b>The Azalean</b></i>, Spring 2018 issue. <br />
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Balsam and Fraser fir grow on the slopes of the balds. Mike and I began trading stories of hiking on Mt. Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, as we are both originally from New England, perhaps sparked by seeing vegetation reminiscent of Mt. Washington? As Brooks points out, the "Southern peaks [of the Appalachians] in the 6,ooo-foot range, all of them in North Carolina and neighboring Tennessee, are clothed in spruce and fir forest, in appearance almost identical with the one on Mount Washington just below the 5000-foot contour." The tallest of the southern Appalachians, Roan among them, are as tall or taller than Mt. Washington. However, the southern mountains never reach above the treeline, unlike their northern cousins, yet they share some similar plants and habitat but at slightly different elevations. </div>
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Below you can see the range of color in <i>R. calendulaceum</i>, yellow to orange, growing together. Azaleas tend to grow in protected areas like this southern slope and are sometimes confused with <i>R. cumberlandense, </i>which can have vivid red to orange flowers, rarely yellow. The Cumberlands bloom later, however, generally have smaller flowers, and the undersides of the leaves can have a whitish or blueish cast.<br />
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The veteran members of the group told us the bloom on Roan this year was not at its most spectacular. Some of the Flame azaleas were still in bud -- how nice that they take their time -- and the Catawbas simply did not have as many blossoms as they can during a banner year. I will take their word for it, but can't complain as the scenery was fabulous. The bloom was plentiful if not its most robust. </div>
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Big patches of vaccinium like the ones below are also here and provide brilliant red fall color, a reason to return later in the season, if not for the blueberries!<br />
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Alas, this was my last day with the group. They continued on the following day to Robbinsville, NC, and then into the Smokies. Our adventure began in Grayson Highlands State Park in southwestern VA, and also included visits along the upper Blue Ridge Parkway south of Fancy Gap (the Linville Falls was a highlight) and to Elk Knob, where more flora and fauna dazzled. (A post on that to come.) The Roan Highlands were exceptional, however. My appetite is whetted for a return to the south mountains next year when I hope to get into the Smokies. Go if you can; it is a wonderland! </div>
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The first weekend in May, I made a photo foray with a classmate and our instructor to Mt Cuba, Winterthur, and Chanticleer., which are outside of Wilmington, DE, and Philadelphia, PA, respectively. I'd never seen <a href="http://www.chanticleergarden.org/">Chanticleer </a>in the spring. It was overcast, but, blissfully, no rain. There was an amazing convergence of bloom at all of the gardens given the slow, cool spring we had in the mid-Atlantic. But for us, coming from the Washington DC area, it was also like going back in time and experiencing some of spring all over again. </div>
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Below are views of the Ruin Garden, which is a folly built by the previous director, who hoped to use an old house on the property as the basis for his ruin, but had to resort to a 'new' ruin instead. </div>
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The 'pool table' is modeled after a sarcaphogous.<br />
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There were a lot of tulips in purple tones throughout the garden.<br />
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Here are purple alliums, and more tulips in the gravel garden. The touch of orange is just right; I think they are more tulips. I think the ruin is especially effective when viewed from a distance.<br />
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Chanticleer is a magical and inventive place. I wish I could visit every week!<br />
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The direction of the pan, seems to affect my level of wooziness. Going up or down is better than moving a long a horizontal plane. <br />
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Some of them look a little painterly, no? <br />
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This one makes me a bit dizzy. I was panning from side to side.<br />
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It's interesting to see what textures come through, like the yew needles (the new foliage is very yellow, one of its features). <br />
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And at rest, the 'Red Sentinel' Japanese maples, Baptisia, Amsonia, and Louisiana iris, with the yew just peeking through. </div>
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On Sunday, the Potomac Chapter of the <a href="https://nargs.org/">North American Rock Garden Society</a> visited the newly opened<b> <a href="http://quarrygardensatschuyler.org/">Quarry Gardens</a>,</b> a native plant garden developed around old soap stone quarries. The garden is about a half hour south of Charlottesville, VA. </div>
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Check it our if you're in the vicinity. It's a gorgeous place. </div>
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Like many quarries, the old pits have filled with water that's an amazing blue green color. </div>
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They have one of the largest expanses of Reindeer Lichen in the state. (I think I have that right.) <br />
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This is probably an old tool box belonging to a quarry worker.<br />
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New bridges help connect paths over waterways.<br />
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Elaine L. and her husband equipped with walking sticks.<br />
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The ridges are formed by the drills used to cut the stone. I thought it looked more dynamic in black white.<br />
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Friday I spent the blustery morning with fellow "stoners," collecting beautiful rock from the Medford Quarry in Westminster, MD, pictured below. We are members of the Potomac Chapter of the<b> <a href="https://nargs.org/">North American Rock Garden Society</a>. </b> Most of our field trips focus on plants, but thanks to Kevin M. and Dick H., this one is all about finding rocks to go with them. It's our second visit in two years.<br />
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As so often happens in quarries, the deepest portion is now a small lake filled with startlingly blue-green water, probably due to the minerals in the stone. I used to swim in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York where the water was a similar color. Does that mean it was similar stone? I don't know.<br />
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This quarry features marble of varying colors -- mauve to pinkish tones, grey-green, tan, and stone with black and white striations. <br />
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You can appreciate the scale of the place when you see how small we look in comparison to the landscape. Above, John walks through an expanse of pink marble.<br />
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Geologically speaking, marble, a metamorphic rock, forms when limestone, sedimentary stone, is exposed to extreme heat and pressure. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John would love to take the big boulder home, if only it would fit in his truck. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynn T. carries one of her treasures back up the hill. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like several of us, Janet M. has returned for this second winter excursion to collect rocks. </td></tr>
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Behind Janet, you can see where the gray-green stone buts up again the pink stone. <br />
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Things are quiet at the quarry in winter, with few big trucks coming and going, which is why they let us in at this time of year. Medford generously allows us to take what we can fit in our vehicles. <br />
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I'm not sure how this fine, pinky gravel came to be -- is it naturally occurring, left over debris, or manufactured? In the right garden, it could look fantastic as material for a path. <br />
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That could be Little bluestem growing at the top of the ridge. <br />
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Some of the stone includes beautiful calcite crystals like the one above. The calcite could be what makes the water such a gorgeous blue. <br />
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It was considerably colder this year than last. But with the ground frozen, at least we were spared the mud of last year and vehicles were less likely to get stuck. Some of us dared to drive in without 4-wheel drive. <br />
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What will become of my stones? I will add them to a trough and build more cairns in the garden.<br />
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Same time next year, stoners? I'd go back just to look at the other-worldly scenery. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And here it is yesterday after snowing 3 to 4 inches the night before. Temperatures remained in the 20s overnight, a shock to many plants, but not all. Magnolias went brown almost a month ago, cherries got nipped, forsythia is generally okay, tulips not so good, daffodils might be okay if their heads aren't down in the snow. My Corylopsis flowers look a little muddy today, but I hope will still continue to open. Temperatures will be rising again into next week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wasn't enthusiastic about this late snow storm, a week shy of the first day of spring, but I wasn't surprised. If March "comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb" as they say. It's an unpredictable month. I'm going to look back at what was blooming before winter arrived (the pre-lamb lamb time). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even though I complained about the return of winter, I'm also glad it came and slowed down the early charge of spring. Climate change seems to be bringing more extreme fluctuations in weather and this spring is a prime example. Will March go out like a lamb? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To see what else is blooming in other gardening blogger's gardens, go to <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/search/label/garden%20bloggers%20bloom%20day">May Dreams. </a></span>Sarah http://www.blogger.com/profile/17309099511967998215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787019497577027925.post-20256921886259486432017-01-22T14:34:00.000-08:002017-01-22T15:02:53.549-08:00Women's March: The Signs of the Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Yesterday's Women's March in Washington, DC, brought some relief from the scene in the city the day before--the inauguration of someone so utterly unsuitable, so moronic, it seems unreal, almost inconceivable, that he is President. </div>
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The sheer numbers at the March--more than the inaugural crowd, yes it's true--was uplifting to see and feel. Here are some of the signs marchers carried -- and scenes. </div>
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It was a good day, a fitting global rebuke of Mr. Thin-Skinned who, true to form, sent his press secretary out for his first appearance to lie about the size of the inaugural crowd. Wow! Narcissist in Chief! <br />
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I hope we can keep the momentum going, keep pushing back. This guy is not to be believed. Literally. <br />
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Check out Les at <a href="http://atidewatergardener.blogspot.com/">A Tidewater Gardener</a> for views of another March. <br />
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