Celebrating New Growth at Brookside

There is a lot to see during the spring months at Brookside Gardens. Many bulbs and wildflowers bloom in the spring. Sometimes I get in the mood to look more closely at the smaller flowers rather than the great swaths of hyacinths and tulips planted in the garden.

Bursting buds are everywhere on bushes and trees that have been bare all winter. The way the leaves are packed into the small space and then unfurl always seems amazing to me – and it isn’t just the horse chestnuts and ginkgoes that I’ve already posted about!

The bald cypress – a deciduous conifer – begins to get its greenery again too. This branch has a small cone on the end.

And the deciduous magnolia has both flowers and leaves popping out of their buds!