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Spring Blooms!

Osage Native Azalea
Evergreen Rhododendron
Variegated Solomon Seal
This is a green shrub with pink, blue and purple flowers. the flowers have a flat, open, central cluster of tiny, flowers surrounded by a ring of four sepaled flowers.
Blue Lacecap Hydrangea
A pink bloom of a Chinese Ground Orchid. It has star-shaped sepals and inner petals that resemble a dragon's mouth. The bottom of the petal has wavy white stripes. In the background are the green leaves that are long and sword-like.
Bletilla Striata–Chinese Ground Orchid
A deciduous native Azalea called Pink Carousel. The small trumpet-shaped flowers are a bright color mix of white, pink, coral, and light orange. They are arranged in rounds of 5 or 6 on one stem. They cover most of the small shrub's branches.
Pink Carousel Deciduous Azalea
Bloodroot
Bloodroot
Yellow Trout Lily
Yellow Trout Lily
Closed Mountain Laurel Buds
Mountain Laurel