Photos: East Savanna and Flowerbeds

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These photos show the east savanna and the flowerbeds.


Snowdrops are blooming in the east end of the savanna. They have naturalized all over the place here.




This is a medium view of the snowdrops showing several clusters.




Here is a closeup of the snowdrops in bloom. Usually when they bloom, the ground is green all around them, but today it is still brown.




The east end of the savanna is the moss garden.




Here is a closeup of the moss. It is just starting to green up. In spring it makes a thick, cushiony carpet.




This is the tulip bed with its leaf mulch gone.




These tiny, hot-pink shoots will become peonies.




These tulips have cream edges on the leaves. I'm very fond of tulips as foliage in addition to flowers. I've seen some with the leaves streaked yellow or cream all through, and others with a network of dark purple veins.




The daffodil bed still has its leaf mulch.




These daffodils have seeded themselves into the gravel of the parking lot just east of the flowerbed. I need to pull the sticks away from there.




Here is a long view of the daffodil bed after I raked the leaves off.




This is a wide view of the daffodil bed with the leaves raked off.




This green tuft of daffodil shoots was poking above the leaves earlier.




The daffodil shoots that were mostly under the leaves are more yellow than green.