The day was partly sunny, cool and breezy followed by rain and wind at night. This morning the yard was littered with branches. Offering me an opportunity to play pick-up-sticks amid the showers.
Saturday we went to a nursery in Green Village, The Farm, which has a huge and varied selection of stock—trees, shrubs and flowers. We bought, and I planted yesterday two Cytisus praecox ‘Hollandia’, scotch brooms, in pink and red, and two Spirea nipponica ‘snowmound’, snowmound spireas, obviously in white.
We have six varieties of viburnums in the yard. I spent some time trying to identify them all. This web site was very helpful: http://www.hort.cornell.edu/vlb/key/index.html. Rather than just list the six names, I’ll show the double file viburnum, the most interesting flower.
New blooms: more of those viburnums.
Double File Viburnum. The big, showy outer white petals are sterile flowers probably to attract pollinators to the small, cream colored, fertile inner flowers. These little flowers are typical of many viburnums, five small rounded petals with five yellow stamens.
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