Patriotic Volunteers.

5-14-10 VERMONT: I had a pretty good trip up today. It started raining in Bergen County and rained most of the trip, but the sun came out just as I entered Vermont. The gardens look fine, a hydranga may be dead, a couple foxglove are missing, less than the usual winter losses here.

Sam and Chloe seem pleased to be back, both tried out the pond, sampled the grass in the pasture, sniffed under the barns, and barked at the Willa, the neighbors dog.

In bloom: alkanet, apple, azalea, bleeding heart-red and white, blueberry, celandine, creeping phlox, dandelion, epimedium, forget-me-not, geranium, hellebore, honey suckle, jack-in-the-pulpit, judd viburnum, lamium-purple and yellow, lilac, lily-of-the-valley, mertensia, packysandra, primrose, pulmonaria, spurge, sweet woodruff, tiarella, trillium-red and white, vinca minor, violets-white, purple, yellow, wild strawberry.


Red Bleeding Heart, White Bleeding Heart, Blue Forget-Me-Not. The flowers are all volunteers in this spot.