🌿 Shaw Island Petals Leaving Town 🌿

Flowering Cherry
Shaw Island ferry landing
Anno fifteen April 2018

"It is the spectrum, not the color, that makes color worth having, and it is the cycle, not the instant, that makes the day worth living."  
      
Henry Mitchell. One of America's most beloved garden writers who wrote for the Washington Post for almost 25 years and could rattle off the Latin names of 3,000 plants.  

🌿 APRIL ONE 🌿

Narcissus Van Sion
A new Gatehouse planting of a Shaw Island heritage
daffodil blooming on time for Easter;
 Squaw Bay Rd.
There will be bulbs for sale again next door at
Market Camp in the autumn.

APRIL 

After so long

hardly anyone remembers: 

April's air

is colder than November's

But April is like 

a pitcher warming up:

gradually the ball 

starts to hop.

Ed Rosemann