
Hi GPODers!
Yesterday we toured Steve Schmidt’s Atlanta garden, which is already filled with an array of flowers and new foliage (Steve’s Springtime in Atlanta). Today, we get to contrast that with the slow start to spring color that Phyllis Strohmeyer captured from her gardens in Hope, New Jersey. Phyllis has shared her beautiful, flower-filled garden a couple of times in the past (check out those submissions here: The Year That Was in Northwestern New Jersey and Highlights from Phyllis’s Garden in New Jersey). Before her beds and borders erupt into their dazzling display of peak-season blossoms, the start of spring brings pockets of bright blooms and fresh foliage as the rest of the garden just begins to emerge from its winter hibernation.
Thank you so much for sharing these early signs of spring in your garden, Phyllis! There are few things as exciting as seeing those first green sprouts emerging from the brown fallen leaves, and it’s amazing to get a sense of the transformation that takes place from the start of spring to the height of activity in summer.
What are the earliest spring plants in your garden? Does color burst into your garden quickly, like Steve’s Atlanta garden, or does green growth emerge more slowly, like Phyllis’s New Jersey garden? Let us know in the comments below, or consider sharing your spring garden photos with Garden Photo of the Day! Follow the directions below to submit photos via email, or send me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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Comments
Love the spring bulbs.
So pretty and I love the artichoke sculpture!!
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