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Late Spring (mid-April through May)
The gardens are awash with color featuring dogwoods, crabapples, cherries, tulips and rhododendra.
 
red buckeye Aesculus pavia
red buckeye
 Chinese fringetree Chionanthus retusus
Chinese fringetree
 Chinese fringetree bloom Chionanthus retusus
Chinese fringetree
flowering dogwood Cornus florida
flowering dogwood
 Deutzia Deutzia species
Deutzia
 redbud pearlbush Exochorda giraldi
redbud pearlbush
redbud pearlbush bloom Exochorda giraldi
redbud pearlbush
 dwarf fothergilla Fothergilla gardenii
dwarf fothergilla
 Carolina silverbells Halesia tetraptera
Carolina silverbell
Spanish bluebells Hyacinthoides hispanica
Spanish bluebells		 crabapple Malus species and hybrids ('Sugar Tyme' shown) crabapple peony Paeonia officinalis
peony
primrose Primula japonica
primrose

Japanese flowering cherry

 Prunus serrulata
'Kwanzan'
Japanese flowering cherry
 Rhododendron Rhododendron
species and hybrids
floribunda rose Rosa floribunda
('Irish Beauty' shown)
floribunda rose

bridlewreath spirea

 Spiraea prunifolia
bridlewreath spirea
 Vanhoutte spirea Spiraea x vanhouttei
Vanhoutte spirea
Tulips Tulipa species and hybrids
Tulips		 Japanese snowball viburnum Viburnum plicatum
Japanese snowball viburnum		 Japanese wisteria Wisteria floribunda
Japanese wisteria
white Japanese wisteria Wisteria floribunda
'Alba'
white japanese wisteria


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