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Early Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers for Color & Mood Early spring flowers bring warm moods and pops of color to the landscape: a welcome change after the doldrums of winter. Not only are they pretty, early spring blooms are the promise of new life. They attract our eyes, the first pollinators of the season and make our lives ...

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Flowering Quince, an Early Boon to Bees

While my last blog expounded on the benefits of native plants in a wildlife-friendly landscape, I'm going to take a brief detour to laud a familiar, but beloved, non-native. Chaenomeles speciosa or close relative, Chaenomeles japonica, both known as flowering quince, are an early boon to bees. Honeybee on flowering quince. I have lived in ...

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