Corlopsis, Loropetalum, Magnolia, and Lindera; spring comes at us left right left right...

We are in the warm and fuzzy part of spring, as opposed to the cold, wet, and dreary. We approached 80F today which would have shifted us into "hot" spring. Nobody likes that; it shortens the bloom time of everything and causes stress on plants and gardeners alike. I guess I would have to say though, that it beats a blizzard .

The yellow shrubs, one mid left, and the other all the way down in the middle of the photo, are Corylopsis. The USNA has one of, if not, the top collection in the west. I am very fond of these shrubs and have been using them in designs for years. Given enough space they are graceful, heavy blooming, fragrant, shade tolerant additions to the early spring garden..

The Cherrys and the Magnolias were in good form today

I drove around after working an extra hour on the second day of daylight savings time. I think I'm still confused. There's lots of color, mostly shades of pink. All exaggeration aside, I think these flowers are about a week ahead of their usual time, maybe ten days. We hit 70F today and it was pleasant. The ASRT Monday Project was in the Asian Collections and we, mostly they, rolled through my projects, then put down 12 tons of CR-6, dug an old stump out with the backhoe, and tidied the Japanese Woodland with a backpack blower. Wow.