THE SCENE last week in my friend Nancy’s Boerum Hill backyard…
This is what comes of twenty years of throwing bulbs into the ground and letting them do their thing: April abundance!
Lots of daffs, leucojum (they look like tall lilies of the valley), and a glossy, large-leaved yellow flowering thing we don’t remember the name of. Anyone?
To come: blue-purple wood hyacinths and a wonderful tree peony, which blooms reliably in mid-May.




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April 29, 2009 at 7:45 am
Mary-Liz
Lovely – “Glossy, wide-leaved yellow flowering thing” is Erythronium – Trout Lily.
April 29, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Nancy
Nice surprise to see my own garden!