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| 2025-04-23_14.25.49_MtCubaCenterSign.jpg |
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Mt Cuba Center sign
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| 2025-04-23_14.35.57_TheGangHeadingOut.jpg |
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Gang heading out to see the garden.
3 generations.
It's a family affair!
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| 2025-04-23_14.37.44_Foamflower.jpg |
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Foamflower
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| 2025-04-23_14.37.52_RedbudAndVista.jpg |
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Redbud tree
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| 2025-04-23_14.38.37_FloweringDogwood1.jpg |
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Lots of signs identifying the trees, shrubs, plants, etc.
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| 2025-04-23_14.38.49_FloweringDogwood2.jpg |
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Flowering Dogwood
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| 2025-04-23_14.39.10_FloweringDogwood3.jpg |
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Another Flowering Dogwood
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| 2025-04-23_14.48.03_SmallSittingArea.jpg |
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Lots of little sitting areas like this scattered around the garden
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| 2025-04-23_14.48.13_CherubStatue1.jpg |
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Cherub statue
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| 2025-04-23_14.48.16_CherubStatue2.jpg |
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Another cherub
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| 2025-04-23_14.49.14_RaisedFormalGardenLawn.jpg |
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This entire lawn and formal garden was raised to avoid an inconvenient step down.
Now flush with paved patio.
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| 2025-04-23_14.49.30_WaterTroughFountain.jpg |
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Water trough fountain
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| 2025-04-23_14.50.00_Mugwort.jpg |
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Mugwort
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| 2025-04-23_14.50.29_LargeSittingArea.jpg |
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Large sitting area.
Bring your own picnic lunch!
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| 2025-04-23_14.51.21_FountainsIntoPool.jpg |
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Classic fountain pool, plus Phlox and Tulips
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| 2025-04-23_14.52.02_RotatingMapleSeedSculpture.jpg |
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Maple seed sculture.
On an axle.
Feel free to spin it.
I did!
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| 2025-04-23_14.53.18_PhloxAlongBrickWalkway.jpg |
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Phlox lining the brick walkway
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| 2025-04-23_14.53.44_Lilac_DarkPurple.jpg |
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I'd never seen such dark purple Lilacs
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| 2025-04-23_14.53.49_Lilac_LightPurpleAndWhite.jpg |
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White and light purple Lilacs
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| 2025-04-23_14.57.51_Trillium_White1.jpg |
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White Trillium as we enter the Trillium Garden
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| 2025-04-23_15.00.11_TroutLilies.jpg |
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Dense patch of Trout Lilies
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| 2025-04-23_15.00.20_DwarfLarkspur.jpg |
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Dwarf Larkspur
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| 2025-04-23_15.01.03_Trillium_Yellow.jpg |
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Yellow Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.01.31_YellowFlowers.jpg |
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Yellow flowers.
Don't know what they're called.
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| 2025-04-23_15.02.54_Trillium_White2.jpg |
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More White Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.03.05_Trillium_Red_Underwood_Vasey.jpg |
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Red Trillium, Underwood's Trillium, Vasey's Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.03.28_MayApples.jpg |
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A sweep of May Apples.
Kind of like the sweep of Virginia Bluebells through
our garden.
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| 2025-04-23_15.03.35_Trillium_SouthernRed.jpg |
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Southern Red Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.03.59_CelandinePoppy.jpg |
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Celandine Poppy
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| 2025-04-23_15.04.07_Trillium_Hybrid.jpg |
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Hybrid Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.04.43_Trillium_Deceptive.jpg |
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Deceptive Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.05.03_Ferns.jpg |
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LOTS of ferns everywhere
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| 2025-04-23_15.05.24_Trillium_Bashful_Least_Twisted.jpg |
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Looks like they keep all the denigrated Trillium together:
Bashful Trillium, Least Trillium, Twisted Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.05.35_Trillium_PaleYellow.jpg |
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Pale Yellow Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.06.03__Trillium_Sessile.jpg |
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Sessile Trillium
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| 2025-04-23_15.06.35_BottlebrushBuckeyeSeedlings.jpg |
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Under the Bottlebrush Buckeye trees, there's a dense groundcover.
Looking closer...
It's ALL Bottlebrush Buckeye seedlings!
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| 2025-04-23_15.06.50_MoreBottlebrushBuckeyeSeedlings.jpg |
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And more over this way!
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| 2025-04-23_15.08.17_Trillium_Grandiflorum.jpg |
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Flore Pleno Large-Flowered Trillium (Trillium Grandiflorum)
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| 2025-04-23_15.11.24_CrossVineClimbingTree_Bottom_.jpg |
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Uh, oh!
That's a lot of vines.
This tree's gonna be in trouble when they climb out along all the branches and steal all the sunlight!
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| 2025-04-23_15.11.30_CrossVineClimbingTree_Top.jpg |
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Hmmm...
I guess Cross Vine is better behaved than Poison Ivy, Virginia Creeper
and English Ivy.
Stays off the branches.
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| 2025-04-23_15.12.02_OrangeFlowersOnTree.jpg |
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Orange flowers on a shrub or small tree.
Look almost like Turks Cap Lilies.
Not sure what they are.
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| 2025-04-23_15.15.44_TinyWhiteQuakerLadiesInMoss1.jpg |
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Tiny white flowers growing through the moss
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| 2025-04-23_15.16.12_TinyWhiteQuakerLadiesInMoss2.jpg |
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Ah, they're called Quaker Ladies!
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| 2025-04-23_15.17.48_Fiddleheads1.jpg |
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LOTS of fern fiddleheads unrolling this time of year.
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| 2025-04-23_15.17.55_Trillium_White3.jpg |
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Some Trillium escaped from the designated Trillium Garden
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| 2025-04-23_15.18.04_BottlebrushBuckeye.jpg |
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Bottlebrush Buckeyes in flower
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| 2025-04-23_15.18.13_Fiddleheads2.jpg |
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More fern fiddleheads.
All different kinds of ferns in the garden.
Saw Christmas Fern, Cinnamon Fern, Royal Fern, Interrupted Ferm,
and a bunch of others.
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| 2025-04-23_15.19.34_Trillium_Ferns_Fiddelheads.jpg |
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Trillium, ferns and fiddleheads
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| 2025-04-23_15.21.22_CreekFlowingFromPond.jpg |
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Creek flowing out of lowest in a series of ponds.
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| 2025-04-23_15.21.54_WaterLilies.jpg |
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Water lilies or some sort of water plant
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| 2025-04-23_15.27.59_KeystoneBridge.jpg |
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Cool bridge made of stone slabs with a keystone as the top platform
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| 2025-04-23_15.28.22_DoubleTulipTreeTrunk_Bottom.jpg |
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Double trunked tulip tree
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| 2025-04-23_15.28.26_DoubleTulipTreeTrunk_Top.jpg |
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Looking up, and trying to not fall over backwards...
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| 2025-04-23_15.28.49_TakingABreak.jpg |
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Yeah, let's sit for a sec...
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| 2025-04-23_15.29.32_SpringBeauty.jpg |
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Spring Beauty growing at base of tree
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| 2025-04-23_15.29.39_SmallLowWhiteFlowers.jpg |
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Other small white flowers on the other side of the tree.
What are they called again?
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| 2025-04-23_15.30.34_BlueCohosh.jpg |
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Blue Cohosh
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| 2025-04-23_15.31.03.TreeLeafingOut.jpg |
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Small tree leafing out
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| 2025-04-23_15.31.36_CreekFlowingBetweenPonds.jpg |
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Creek flowing between ponds.
There's a small gap in the stone path to let it flow through.
Excellent spot to dip a foot.
Cool and refreshing!
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| 2025-04-23_15.31.51_InterruptedFern.jpg |
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Interrupted fern.
Note the stretch of bare stalk between the upper and lower types of leaf.
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| 2025-04-23_15.32.03_MarshMarigold.jpg |
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Marsh Marigold, growing as usual right along the water
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| 2025-04-23_15.33.08_Fern_AmericanRoyal.jpg |
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American Royal Fern
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| 2025-04-23_15.33.29_StoneMushroom1.jpg |
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Cool stone mushroom.
Have a seat!
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| 2025-04-23_15.33.39_PurpleAndYellowFlowers.jpg |
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Purple and yellow flowers intermixed
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| 2025-04-23_15.33.57_Fiddleheads3.jpg |
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Did I mention there are a LOT of ferns and fiddleheads?
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| 2025-04-23_15.34.47_SinewyTreeTrunk.jpg |
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Very muscular looking tree trunk.
Don't mess with this one!
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| 2025-04-23_15.35.17_PhloxNearPond.jpg |
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Phlox seems to do well everywhere.
Wet, dry, among rocks, along the pond,etc.
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| 2025-04-23_15.35.38_2InGazebo.jpg |
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Nice gazebo!
Check out the 2 hot chicks chatting at their leisure!
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| 2025-04-23_15.35.48_MayApplesAndTallFerns.jpg |
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Very tall ferns.
At least 3-4 feet.
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| 2025-04-23_15.36.04_PurpleFlameIris.jpg |
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Purple Flame Irises.
We bought some from here a couple years ago.
They look just as good in
our garden.
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| 2025-04-23_15.36.49_JoePye_HollowStem.jpg |
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The stems of Joe Pye Weed are hollow, like bamboo
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| 2025-04-23_15.39.33_4InGazebo.jpg |
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Now there are FOUR hot chicks in the gazebo.
Love the big floppy garden hat!
Maybe if I slip in and sit quietly, they'll let me join them...
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| 2025-04-23_15.43.53_BirdsNest_Robin.jpg |
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Robin nesting just outside the gazebo.
I tried taking a video, but she was too shy.
Stayed stock still as long as I pointed a camera at her.
Yes, "her".
I
Googled
and found that unlike some other bird species,
male robins feed the young, but don't sit on the eggs.
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| 2025-04-23_15.50.02_Clethra.jpg |
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Clethra.
So that's how you spell that!
Just like it sounds.
Who knew?...
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| 2025-04-23_15.51.36_SkunkCabbage.jpg |
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Skunk Cabbage.
As expected, right at the water's edge.
Likes to keep its feet wet.
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| 2025-04-23_15.52.52_CreekFlowingToPond.jpg |
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Creek flowing into the highest pond.
Emerges from under a flat rock.
No path to get there.
Can't see very well.
Last time, we walked down a steep path to find
the end of the creek flowing out of the lowest pond.
Ended abruptly at what I think was a pump house.
Water recirculates back to here?
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| 2025-04-23_15.57.01_Columbine.jpg |
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Wild Columbine
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| 2025-04-23_16.00.42_LeafingOut.jpg |
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Some plant leafing out.
Cool to see the leaves emerging.
Not sure I know the name of this one.
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| 2025-04-23_16.01.53_StoneMushroom2.jpg |
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Another stone mushroom.
Don't trample the May Apples to sit on it!
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| 2025-04-23_16.02.34_Fiddleheads4.jpg |
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And yet MORE fiddleheads
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| 2025-04-23_16.03.03_Trillium_White_Closeup.jpg |
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Closeup of White Trillium that we've seen so much of.
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| 2025-04-23_16.06.47_Mansion.jpg |
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The mansion is open.
Can walk right through, front to back, to see more gardens.
Also has a small selection of food inside, in case you forgot your
picnic lunch:
Snacks, drinks, microwavable stromboli, etc.
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| 2025-04-23_16.08.31_OrnateRugAndWallpaper.jpg |
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Ornate rugs and wallpaper.
And a short 3-minute film of the history.
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| 2025-04-23_16.10.28_RestingAtDayEnd.jpg |
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Taking advantage of one more sitting area to chat a while before
we head out
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| 2025-04-23_16.35.36_WillowOak.jpg |
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2 huge Willow Oaks shading the tables on the patio
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| 2025-04-23_16.35.59_RollingHills.jpg |
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Nice vista to rest your eyes after wandering the garden for a couple hours.
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| 2025-04-23_16.50.01_DecayingLog.jpg |
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Decaying log with root ball still intact
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| 2025-04-23_16.50.51_ComeBackSoon.jpg |
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Nice place!
Come back soon!
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