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A Pasque Flower springs to life in a rock wall in the Arbor Garden.
Pansies also bring their spring cheer to the Arbor Garden.
These are very old-fashioned, field grown pansies that have sweet faces and smell like pansies did when we were children, before the hybridizers got to work.
A bumblebee wallows in a coral pink Flowering Quince.
And then enjoys the Blueberry blossoms too.
Our plum trees bloom early and this year they give us a bumper crop of plums.
The rhubarb comes up early in the spring and goes to seed early in a gorgeous wand of blossoms. When we came to the farm there was nary a bush or shrub or tree except along the hedgerows of the property. This meant that I spent a lot of time looking for plants that offer the architecture you get from trees and shrubs in the course of one growing season. Rhubarb is one of these plants. We now begin to have substantial shrubs and bigger trees, but rhubarb still delights.
Here you can see what a beautiful architectural note the rhubarb blossoms strike in the rose garden.
With spring showers comes rainbows. Here a double rainbow arcs over the small arbor in the rose garden.
Late May and early June bring the return of so many flower friends. Here a group of salmon pink poppies glow in the sunlight.
Another poppy enchants.