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repeat. They are the glories of the Virginia Piedmont.
I am thinking of bloodroot with pure white flowers that appear just when I am weary of winter. And violets — blue, yellow and white. Rue anemone is another, with its pale pink flowers that quiver on delicate, fragile stems in the slightest breeze (Anemone comes from Anemos, the Greek god of the wind.) Hepatica, with its handsome, three-lobed | leaves, is often the first to bloom when, as early as February, its flowers ranging in color from white to purple, hug the ground among brown winter leaves.
Mary Painter can supply the gardener with these native Virginia plants and countless others from her famed garden near Hume. Her enterprise is called Virginia Natives (address: P.O. Box D, Hume, Va. 22639; telephone: (540) 364-1665).
Painter publishes a descriptive catalog of available plants and is free with advice on wildflower gardening. Prices are reasonable, but how does one put a monetary value on such exhilarating beauty?
“Our hardy natives are integral members of sustainable landscapes, serving as support links to many other forms which are quietly, sometimes invisibly, disappearing,” wrote Mary Painter.
She continued with, “They carry the genetic memory to
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