After a very dry March, everything in the garden perked up in April with a more average rainfall. These are some of the Japanese Maples coming into leaf.

The flowering cherries make a good display also.

This Japanese Maple is “Bloodgood”.

I’ve taken out a Juniper bed under the Blue Cedar and replaced it with ferns and foxgloves to make a second fern dell in the West garden.

Ercilla volubis in flower.

Cassiope in a cattle drinking bowl on a wall.

One of the Ramondas in flower in the Alpine Garden.

95% of the plants in the water in the Water Garden are native. This is Bog Bean, which likes sun and dislikes shade.

And finally, these three grow outside all year around, protected by a polycarbonate roof in the Arid Garden, Purple Yucca, Bunny Ears Cactus & this Mangave.