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Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING!!! Mid Spring Edition, 2 by Muddy1

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Muddy1 wrote:
Oops! I thought I attached photos last night. I'll try this again...

The first and third photos show one of my Dodecatheon meadia (Shooting Star) plants.

I bought this baby dogwood to spruce up my shrub graveyard. Two Aucubas and a Japanese Pieris were given their last chances to grow there, and they're thriving years later. The wimpy-looking leatherleaf viburnum blooming in the background should start looking nicer now that more sun is reaching the area.

Sequoia, the rabbits don't eat my Chelone lyonii (pink turtlehead) plants either. The Chelone glabra are spindly and easy to snap off, so maybe that attracted them. They ate my Virginia Sweetspire last year, but I'm using systemic Bitrex this year and so far no munching. I sprayed them with rabbit repellent just in case.