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You are here: Home / Essays / A Quiet Minute of April, with coffee, after Wordle.

A Quiet Minute of April, with coffee, after Wordle.

April 11, 2025 By Daniel J. Hinkley

Anemonoides nemorosa ‘Blue Eyes’

Anemonoides nemorosa ‘Bowles Purple’ with Erythronium revolutum and Erythronium oregonum

Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium oregonum

Meliodendron tibeticum (collected as seed in Hubei Province 2014)

Disporum xlingense (collected in Sichuan Province in 1996)

Camellia pittardii (collected as seed in northern Vietnam in 1999)

Berberis darwinii x Berberis trigona ‘Phoenix’ A spontaneous seedling from Windcliff

Hope you have enjoyed this moment of silence, mug in hand.

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Comments

  1. Kathy Leishman says

    April 13, 2025 at 7:18 am

    The essence of Spring from your garden to mine on this superb April morning..
    Thank you!

    • Daniel J. Hinkley says

      April 14, 2025 at 6:50 am

      Thanks Kathy

  2. Midge says

    April 13, 2025 at 9:48 am

    The beautiful photographs are a wonderful antidote to everything else that’s going on in the world!

    • Daniel J. Hinkley says

      April 14, 2025 at 6:51 am

      The garden has become our refuge from madness

  3. Mary M Palmer says

    April 13, 2025 at 11:59 am

    Will be there this coming week, I sure hope some of this goodness remains. I wanted to put a ❤️ on every photo as in the past.

    • Daniel J. Hinkley says

      April 13, 2025 at 12:31 pm

      Look forward to seeing you Mary. Warm temps ahead and the Erythroniums go quickly! Hurry….. X

  4. Brenda says

    April 13, 2025 at 1:56 pm

    Breathtaking plants. A welcome harbinger of spring. Thank you.

  5. Scott V Tuzzolino says

    April 13, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    It’s like extacy, but better! Please pass the Sassafrass, Dan. We so hope to come up this year…AND SPEND!

    You’re giving us great ideas. Your photos are divine. ox

    • Daniel J. Hinkley says

      April 14, 2025 at 6:49 am

      Look forward to seeing you Scott.

  6. Tina Wynecoop says

    April 13, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    Daniel,
    I’m rereading Dersu the Trapper by V. K. Arseniev – and wondering if you have read it?
    The guide, Dersu, and his friend, the naturalist and plant guy, Arseniev, remind me of your plant gathering trips to Asia.
    Tina

    • Daniel J. Hinkley says

      April 14, 2025 at 6:49 am

      I have not read that, but will put it on my list!! Thx

  7. Pat says

    April 13, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    During these turbulent times the lovely photos of nature’s blessings fill my soul with renewed hope!

    • Daniel J. Hinkley says

      April 14, 2025 at 6:49 am

      Indeed

  8. Saxon says

    April 23, 2025 at 12:58 pm

    Nothing quite like that quiet satisfaction of that very personal and intimate morning meander through the garden; especially after a Wordle in under 4

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