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28 February, 2010 gallery additions Here in East-Central Illinois this long winter finally has an end in sight. Robins have been seen and heard, the snow is melting around little green daffodil and snowdrop shoots, and temperatures are rumored to reach the 50s this weekend! It doesn't hurt that we're in the first day of meteorlogical spring, either  it's a great psychological boost.All of these factors gave me a kind of 'spring fever', so I searched through my photos for plants that just made me think green. Not environmentally-friendly recycling green, but the kind of green that soothes your heart and imparts you with a deep kinship for the Earth and all other living things.I hope that you enjoy this month's selections and they satisfy, even if only for a brief moment, whatever yearnings for spring you may have. If nothing else, perhaps they'll offer a temporary diversion from those plant catalogs...I'll see you all in two weeks with another update!Christopher Lindsey, gallery maintainerThis newsletter is also available at http://www.hort.net/gallery/date/2010-02-28/#ml |
Allium schoenoprasum (Garden chives, Drumstick chives, Round-headed garlic):
Anemone pulsatilla (Pasque flower):
Arisaema sazensoo (Japanese cobra lily):
Chiastophyllum oppositifolium (Lamb's tail, Goldtröpfchen):
Echinacea 'Fragrant Angel' (Fragrant Angel coneflower):
Forsythia viridissima (Greenstem forsythia):
Hosta tardiana 'Paradise Joyce' (Paradise Joyce hosta):
Hypericum 'Cfflpc-1' PPAF (Blue Velvet™) (Blue Velvet™ St. Johnswort):
Phlox stolonifera 'Sherwood Purple' (Sherwood Purple creeping phlox):
Polygonatum odoratum 'Flore Pleno' (Flore Pleno Japanese Solomon's seal):
Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii' (Pissard's cherry plum):
Scrophularia auriculata 'Variegata' (Variegated water figwort):
Smilacina stellata (Starry Solomon's seal):
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