Golden Spring - and lots of other colors, too!
As winter subsides the garden magazines and blogs proliferate with emblematic photos of spring: bulbs in bloom, flowering trees and early floriferous annuals such as pansies. Buds, particularly, capture our imagination, as they exemplify spring’s promise with their enticement to envision the unfolding flower tucked inside. But garden writers woefully neglect the backstory: what is going on out there besides the flowers? What has just as much color, interest and pizzazz? Leaf buds, cones and young, tender vegetative growth. Come with us on a tour through the spring garden as seen through the eyes of self-confessed foliage freaks. Part I - Flower ‘substitutes’















