An ongoing cycle of life . . . contracting and expanding . . . continues to unfold in the gardens, fields and forest here at Flower Hill Farm. Flower buds swell . . . casting off their protective outer calyxes, just as nestlings grow . . . filling fledgling forms and seeing an exciting and dangerous world beyond the carefully woven nests of their parents.Precious and fleeting life . . . not so unlike these tiny droplets . . . clinging to what they are attached to.Outer casings give . . . … [Read more...] about Orange Unfurling Oriental Poppies and Baltimore Oriole
Quietly Walking About the Mid May Garden
Joyous song and fragrance fills the air about our hillside habitat and gardens. Male Indigo Bunting Delicious Viburnum and French Lilac Lilac and Viburnum Looking Towards Mount Holyoke Range French Lilac and Lilac Topiary Looking Over Toward Walnut Hill French Lilacs and Lilac Topiary Looking Over Towards Carey Hill and High Ridge Lilac Topiary Looking Into Lower Garden Dwarf Fothergilla and Lilacs Looking Down Towards Apple Gateway and Blueberry Field Same As … [Read more...] about Quietly Walking About the Mid May Garden
Quietly Walking About the Mid May Garden
Joyous song and fragrance fills the air about our hillside habitat and gardens.Male Indigo BuntingDelicious Viburnum and French LilacLilac and Viburnum Looking Towards Mount Holyoke RangeFrench Lilac and Lilac Topiary Looking Over Toward Walnut HillFrench Lilacs and Lilac Topiary Looking Over Towards Carey Hill and High RidgeLilac Topiary Looking Into Lower GardenDwarf Fothergilla and Lilacs Looking Down Towards Apple Gateway and Blueberry FieldSame As Above Only More to the LeftTiger … [Read more...] about Quietly Walking About the Mid May Garden
In and Out of Fog, Sun and Shrubberies
Inside Top Garden Looking Out - Wisteria, Late Lilac, Viburnum plicatum facade Outside Top Garden looking in - Viburnum plicatum Viburnum plicatum Viburnum floret suspended . . . unintended catch Tree Peony Female Baltimore Oriole and nest Tree Swallow in nestbox Hawthorns Crataegus Looking up towards Top Garden . . . Fading Lilac (brown now soon to be cut) Magnolia ever bloomer Miss Kim Lilac over towards 'Three Graces' Crabapples and … [Read more...] about In and Out of Fog, Sun and Shrubberies
Lilac Time
Lilac time is here Though days are wet and dreary Tight buds open full Bold colors shout out Within the wash of greening Dripping lilacs sway The sun will return Orioles and warblers sing Gardens welcome light … [Read more...] about Lilac Time
