Episode 1: Early Spring Bloomers

4 March 2025

Get some not bad idea for plants that flower after the forsythia but before the rest of the garden

daffodil and tulips ? We are way beyond that . Our arguers wrestle on whether or not hellebores are worth it and convey up a layer ’s worth of option sure to start your season off right . From edgeworthia to an unbelievable dwarf Cercis canadensis , we kick around a lot of works option . Which ones will you concord on ?

Expert : Sharon Nyenhuis , landscape painting intriguer from Sequim , Washington .

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Redbuds (Cercisspp. and cvs.) push blooms right out from their bark, making them beautiful oddities that both our hosts agree are worthy additions to the spring landscape.

Editor-in-chief Steve Aitken may or may not have been an accomplice in the abduction of this purple witch hazel (Hamamelis vernalis‘Purpurea’).

One treasured springtime shrub from this episode’s expert, designer Sharon Nyenhuis, is ‘Arnold Promise’ witch hazel (Hamamelisxintermedia‘Arnold Promise’).