Brookside in the Cold
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Last week I was at Brookside Gardens for their annual all-volunteer training. I got there a few minutes early to see the witch hazel in bloom. It was a very cold and blustery morning, so I only went to one location where I knew there were trees. One seemed a little past full bloom….another still had a lot of the streamers on its flowers!
But – there were other things in bloom too in the same area! There was winter jasmine,
Paper-bush (Edgeworthia chrysantha) which I hadn’t noticed before, and
Camellias.
And then I made a brisk walk around to the front of the visitor center to get warm and enjoy the training session.