In the Garvan Woodland gardens we found one tulip tree with a few blossoms and some blooming camellis along the Camellia Trail. Unfortunately it is about the end of the blooming season for that plant.
Along Warren's Woodland Walk, named for the long-time brick mill employee Warren Bankson( he helped Verna Cook Garvan to conceive and build the gardens infrastructure), we saw quite a few azaleas in their budding stage. In a couple of weeks this garden will be awash with spring flowers! However, I was very satisfied with what we did see.
We had no problem finding the hyacinths! Our noses led us right to their heady smell.We also found several patches of pansies. The striped yellow ones intrigued me, so I had to take a close-up picture of one. I never realized a pansy could be that pretty up close!
I had no clue as to what the purple flower was in the picture below.
Someone I asked claimed it was a passion flower. She seemed very certain, but my research later said that the passion flower was a blue and white vine type of plant. The picture below is what it looked like when John lifted the flower to look at it more closely.
In the Trap Mountain Overlook part of the garden we found a patch of lilies of the valley, They also give off a nice floral smell.
And below is also another very certain look of spring, a peacock spreading his wings to court his mate who was pacing around near him. They were also found in the gardens.
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