Today we’re back in Malvern, Pennsylvania, celebrating spring with frequent GPOD contributor Carla Zambelli Mudry.
A little birdhouse brings cheerful color all year long and will, no doubt, soon be home to a family of baby birds.
A cheery clump of daffodils stands strong.
A peek inside Carla’s greenhouse reveals some plants that are a little too tender to go outside just yet, along with the first seeds planted of zinnias (Zinnia species and hybrids, annual) and sunflowers (Helianthus annuus, annual).
Another look in the greenhouse shows new herbs waiting to get planted out and seed trays waiting to germinate.
Outside, a camellia (Camellia japonica, Zones 7–10) is beginning to open a bright red flower. In zones where they are hardy, camellias are an essential part of the winter and spring garden.
The fat, fuzzy buds of a Magnolia wait for a little warm to push open into beautiful flowers. The deciduous magnolias are famous for their incredible early spring blooms, but they often pay for their precocious ways by being damaged by late frosts.
The buds of lilacs (Syringa vulgaris, Zones 3–8) push open, with delicate new leaves and the developing flower buds ready to burst into bloom and fill the garden with their fragrance.
It is really impossible to have enough daffodils.
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