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for a minute the presence of the little people? The smallness and fineness of bloom and foliage which define the tender, spring wood flora certainly suggest tiny beings tiptoeing through bluebells and hepatica, wearing red and yellow hats of native columbine.

Hopefully, you haven’t shut that door in your imagination, but if you have it can be pried open again with the welcoming of these plants into your garden.

Being into the topic of bulbs these last few weeks, I didn’t want to leave out the wonderful natives and woodland adaptives in this category. Some of the “bulbs” mentioned here are actually corms, rhizomes and tubers, botanically distinct from bulbs, yet grouped as such in catalogs and some books. All of these plant parts are storage organs: underground stems .stem bases and fleshy root parts.

“Garden” is a term I’d

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