Are you ready for Spring? We surely are & thought we’d post a bright spot during some cloudy days in March to cheer you as well as get you thinking about this year’s flower beds in addition to your vegetable garden.

Next up is another witch hazel that has very showy blooms in February. This shrub has reverted back to being half native witch hazel stock & blooms after the cultivated variety. Both smell wonderful, but we have to say that the cultivated variety is much showier and much more fragrant that the wild stock though we enjoy the entire shrub very much.

Next up is a witch hazel named Diane. This is a beautiful smelling tall vase shaped shrub that is covered in tiny burnt orange blooms. It’s fragrance fills the yard during a time when a pleasant aroma outside might be quite unexpected. We would call this plant the queen of the winter outdoor fragrances.

Our Diane is very young in comparison to the next witch hazel we have that is well over twenty years old.

‘Tis the season for these pretty winter flowers. They bloom every winter just in time for the Lent season or pre Easter season to begin.

We have had these for years growing under the witch hazel and they are always a welcome site.

It has been a wild winter & spring is just around the corner. Posted here are a few things that have started to bloom prior to anything being ready for sale on the farm.

First up has been the Yellow Dogwood (Cornus mas) that came from a grower in North Carolina many years ago. It does quite well here in Eastern Oklahoma.

This beautiful small tree blooms in February and continues to bloom for well over a month. The bark is interesting. It peels as it grows and is really quite pretty.

It does produce very small red “cherries” that you may eat & we have had Cardinals nest in this tree as well as hummingbirds.