Yellow isn’t the only color out right now!

Kodak moments always happen when you don’t have your camera. Walking under a Yoshino cherry tree while the wind whips hundreds of white blooms from the branches to create a mini blizzard around me; I’m reminded of the thick snow that fell in the Midwest’s winter storms where I grew up. Thankfully this whiteout is not cold and wet but a soft petaled breeze that leaves me smiling in the sunshine.

The unfolding of Spring in Virginia is an explosion of flowers of every size, shape, and color one could imagine. Most recognizable are the ruffled rich colored camellia blooms, the delicate but bountiful flowers of the azalea and the candy colored waves of creeping phlox. Peaking through newly leafed trees you can spy specimen plants like the Pieris Japonica with their fragrant white strands of blooms that drape like strings of pearls from green glossy leaves. For all of this, I will never forget my Midwestern roots, but nowadays when I dream of spring I dream of the south.

-Danielle
Creeping Phlox
(Phlox Subulata)

Dainty shades of pinks, whites, blues, and lavender literally cover this evergreen perennial in a spectacular display of color every year – starting in March through April!

Plant in full to part sun as a boarder to the garden, in containers for early spring color, cascading over rock walls or as a ground cover .

Yoshino Cherry
(Prunus x yedoensis)

Recognized nationally as Cherry Blossom, famous for its stunning show of whitish pink blooms every March in Wash. DC.

Deciduous, growing only to 20 -25′ in height and width, makes this tree a perfect specimen for a small yard, or group of 3 to anchor a larger area.