April in Carla’s Garden, Part 2

We’re back today to see more spring blooms in Carla Zambelli Mudry’s garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Delicate new leaves on a Japanese maple

This Japanese maple has new foliage that emerges dark and fine like lace.

It’s impossible to have too many Japanese maples unfurling leaves in the spring garden.

Bright buds of a crabapple (Malus sp.) are ready to pop open into flower.

Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica, Zones 3–8) are blooming, which is such a thrill because it has taken many tries to find a spot or two where they like it.

A spot to sit and enjoy the spring

I am happy to report that the serviceberries (Amelanchier sp.) I planted are finally grown up enough that they bloomed for the first time. The flowers are small and white and lovely.

Also just starting to bloom are native redbuds (Cercis canadensis, Zones 5–9). The one that is already blooming is a volunteer, and there are others getting ready to bloom that were volunteers from a dear friend’s tree that she planted in memory of her daughter.

My last comment is that I have so many ferns already that I will be digging them out as I do every year to thin them and give them away to friends.

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