Weeding

Last evening I spent a couple of hours sitting in the front planting bed and weeding out a gazillion maple seedlings from around the shrubs, a mix of mountain laurels and summer blooming native azaleas. I found that the native ground covers I planted last fall made it through the winter and are coming up nicely. There are plenty of wild gingers and goldenseals and I'm pretty sure there are three of the Virginia snakeroots up.





Snakeroot (Aristolochia virginiana)



Goldenseal



Wild Ginger (Asarum canadensis)

Mountain Laurel 'Snowdrift'