Flower Hill Farm Retreat https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com B&B, Retreat, Vacation Rental Flower Hill Farm in Williamsburg MA Western Mass 20 minutes outside of Northampton MA 413-268-7481 Sat, 17 May 2014 15:01:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 183435305 Early Spring ‘Star’ Magnolia Stellata https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/early-spring-star-magnolia-stellata/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=early-spring-star-magnolia-stellata https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/early-spring-star-magnolia-stellata/#respond Mon, 20 May 2013 13:03:00 +0000 http://duke.itabix.com/early-spring-star-magnolia-stellata/ Magnolia stellata’s primitive multi-petaled, milk-white and blush-striped blooms are the first flowers to fully unfurl within our garden shrubberies. Eighteen petals fall free of their furry calyx, multiplied by hundreds, to paint this small tree brightly. She stands along our second terraced garden stretching easterly amongst sentient statues of Apples and Birch yet to exhale […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/early-spring-star-magnolia-stellata-2/feed/ 0 5304 Spring Spreads Swaths of Sweetness in Petals and Song https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/spring-spreads-swaths-of-sweetness-in-petals-and-song/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-spreads-swaths-of-sweetness-in-petals-and-song https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/spring-spreads-swaths-of-sweetness-in-petals-and-song/#respond Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:53:00 +0000 http://duke.itabix.com/spring-spreads-swaths-of-sweetness-in-petals-and-song/ “She beckons, and the woods start~ She nods and all begin~ Surely ~ such a country I was never in.”  Emily Dickinson Viburnum carlesii before White Birch Spring is spry and gay . . .  spreading sheets of sweet petals . . . swathes of green surface.  Flowering Quince Magnolias and Weeping Chery Returning birds […]

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