Besides the obvious crocus, my confederate jasmine and witch hazel are blooming away. I spent a long time today trimming back the jasmine. It roots where ever it touches down, and I don't want it to take over completely. I was able to get a lot of the layers out of the base of the wall, but probably not all of them. This is something I'm going to have to keep after - more than one trimming a year.
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| Witch hazel |
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| Confederate Jasmine. I think I like the sparser version like this. |
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| Alleghany pachysandra |
I also like the subtler signs of spring, such as the alleghany pachysandra above. This is so much nicer than the generic japanese pachy. It is less aggressive spreading, and has this lovely mottled foliage, most marked in the spring when it emerges so early. This stuff is one of my disappearing / reappearing plants. It seems to have died the year I planted it, but two or three years later this appeared right where I'd originally tried to plant it. I guess it just took a few years to set down its roots before announcing itself.
Here is the crocus type that is the earliest of the ones I planted at the base of the corner wall. I fixated on the "purple outside" description in the catalogue (no picture) and got this in a place I was intending for only blue crocus. Luckily, the timing is usually such that these are mostly done before the blue ones really get going.
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