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Flowers Around Town in April
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
There was a bitterly cold night April 20 / 21, temperature down to 21.9 degrees Fahrenheit. Finished off the magnolias which had already been kissed by the cold. Single flowering cherries were browned. But a few of the early blooming trees and shrubs carried through.
As we were on Mine Street, leaving Flemington, there was a Cornus florida 'Rubra' in magnificent bloom.
Paul was able to pull over next to the curb, even edging forward when I
asked. Lovely images out taken the car's window, as I started doing back in
March 2020 the early days of covid-19 when even public gardens were closed.
Sequence is the same, timing is a bit off. Lilacs are in flower now, a week or ten days
earlier than usual, which typically would be later at the end of April or early in May.
Friday, 17 April 2026
One of the lush double flowered Kwanzan cherry trees that is in bloom on Ridge Road.
I can only imagine the intensity of the crowds, the hoards at Branch Brook Park, trees
massively in flower and the perfect weather enticing huge numbers of people viewing.
There are redbuds, Judas tree, Cercis canadensis, flowering all over the place, small pea-like
flowers popping right out of the bark with their vivid chilly cold pink flowers with a hint of blue.
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Just by the entrance to the parking lot at back of the Frenchtown Market IGA at Milford Road there is
a small garden. A classic brick red flowering quince, Chaenomeles japonica, is espalliered at their fence.
Soft blue creeping phlox, Phlox subulata and a vivid hot pink cultivar in the little flowerbed.
Our native creeping phlox really enjoy growing on the rocks of the little stone wall.
And our foreign, non-native dandelions, Taraxacum officinalis, find the sparse conditions
of the gravel driveway perfectly acceptable as a substrate. Dandelion wine, anyone?
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
A solitary dandelion, Taraxacum officinalis. Fear not. There will be (many) more.
Frost really did a number to the large, somewhat succulent petals of saucer magnolia, Magnolia soulangeana
A massive weeping cherry tree on Ridge Road. It looms over the house. But delicately.
One of the three weeping crabapple tree that make a row across the lawn parallel to Route 519.
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