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| COCKSPUR HAWTHORN |
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| BLUE SPRUCE BUD SCALE AND NEW GOWTH |
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| COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE |
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| SERBIAN BELLFLOWER |
Saturday, 9:00 AM. 64 degrees F, wind N, calm at present but very brisk earlier. The sky is cloudless and the barometer is down but the humidity is only 30% so it won’t rain today, which is good, because this is Bayfield Garden Tour weekend.
There are nine gardens open for walking tours today, a few very grand, most more modest but all very, very nice. We put sandwich boards out yesterday evening and will spend a good deal of the day making the rounds of the gardens and taking photos, then picking up signs again (they know I have a pickup truck).
Tomorrow nineteen gardens are on a driving tour, some may be open for drop-ins but all can be experienced from a vehicle. Bayfield is resplendent now with flowering trees and shrubs and gardens are beginning to come into their own. Come visit if you are within an hour or two drive.
The next couple of blogs will feature Bayfield in Bloom.
The Colorado blue spruce pictured, Picea glauca, is just shedding the bud scales from its new growth, which is very tender and prone to damage at this juncture. Spruce trees should not be transplanted nor disturbed in any way at this time. The blooming tree is a cockspur hawthorn, Crataegus crus-galli, a fine ornamental but beware the thorns! The blue flowered plant is Serbian bellflower, Campanula poscharskyana, a beautiful and prolific perennial.
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