Monday, April 23, 2012

A Morning Surprise


This is the first Spring in my new abode. As far as the garden goes, it has been an interesting one. We had a gadzillion daffodils, but none of them bloomed. A bunch of surprise lilies came up, but I didn't see any of those blooming in the fall, and we have what  looks to be an ample amount of day lilies. This is good.


We also have these.
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I am not sure what they are. They have rich green, deeply variegated green leaves and just today I noticed these shoots coming up with flowers shaped like cattails.

I wonder what will unfold over the next few days of these?

And this, this wonder, is why I love I garden.

1 comment:

Carol said...

Than is a member of the Jack-in-the-Box family. It probably didn't do much this spring but look pretty and unusual like the picture...then in the fall it will develop a cluster of red berries that will go to seed. I have them in the wooded part of my back yard and didn't realize it until we started cleaning it up 2 years ago

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The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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