April in Carla’s Garden

Today we’re visiting with Carla Zambelli Mudry in Malvern Pennsylvania:

Spring continues in my garden, and now the late daffodils are blooming. This is a poet’s narcissus (Narcissus poeticus, Zone 4 – 8)

A few late white daffodils bloom in front of the bright green new leaves of Japanese maple (Acer palmatum, Zone 5 – 9)

And a double-flowered daffodil with later after layer of lemon-yellow petals.

Along with the late daffodils, other bulbs are blooming as well, including this snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris, Zone 3 – 8) with flowers with an unusual checkered pattern.

And more clumps of late daffodils bloom around the fox sculpture carved from a dead tree trunk.

Hellebores (Helleborus hybrids, Zone 4 – 8) have been in bloom for a while, but the dark flowers still look good.

A jack-in-the-pulpet (Arisaema) pushing up out of the ground, ready to open leaves and flower.

The tree peonies (Paeonia hybrids, Zone 3 – 8) are all budding and ready to pop and herbaceous peonies are sending up stalk after stalk, waking up from their winter slumber.

The last of the bulbs I planted in the lawn last fall are blooming and they’re little hot pink tulips (Tulipa ‘Little Beauty’, Zone 3 – 8)!

Volunteer Solomon’s Seal have popped up at the edge of the woods, and azaleas and rhododendrons are starting their bloom cycles.

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