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"Orange Juice" Tulips along path to Enabling Garden, called that because it shows

how to grow flowers even if you can't kneel on the ground and bend over for

hours at a time.

"Orange Juice" Tulips

"King's Blood" red tulips with white "Thalia" narcissus and

Red Moroccan Toadflax.

"King's Blood" red tulips and "Thalia" white narcissus and 

red Moroccan Toadflax.

In the Enabling Garden, flower beds are raised or flowers grow in planters.

Here are whie and pink ranunculus, red tulips, orange wallflowers, green ivy,

yellow primrose, and blue pansies.

A large urn with orange ranunculus, green ivy, and blue and yellow Sorbet pansies.

A raised bed with pink English Daisies, Popsicle Purple Face pansies, yellow

wall flower, and blue poppy anemones.

Double Blue Poppy Anemones.  This was a new variety for me; I have seen them

only as singles before/

Yellow Wallflowers, Blue Poppy Anemones, and Blue Forget-Me-Nots

A very prolific Daffodil with Large Cup

Pots with ranunculus, primrose, white bacopa, Sorbet pansies, orange wallflowers,

red tulips, yellow daisies, and pink English daisies.

There are four sets of three large pots using the same plants in different ways to show

you what can be done with raised planting levels and color combinations.

As you enter the Bulb Garden, you can see a White Flowering Crabapple in the distance

and a "Strawberry Parfait" Crabapple in the center.  "Sweet Pomponette" double

yellow daffodils cover the hillside.  Because spring was so cold and wet, all flowers

were delayed, and we got to see many fields of daffodils, which are usually finished

by the time I get to Chicago.

A branch of "Strawberry Parfait" Crabapple Tree.

"Sweet Pomponette" double yellow daffodil.

"Danielle" huge double red and yellow tulip.

Magenta and a pink crabapple trees with "Pomponette" double yellow daffodils,

and red and purple double "Margarita" tulips.

Three crabapple trees, daffodils, and tulips.

Borderof various tulips and blue grape hyacinths.

Pink and red single and double tulips with blue grape hyacinths.

Pink, red, and purple double "Margarita" tulips.

"Anastasia" red fringed tulips with blue grape hyacinths.

A hanging basket with yellow pansies and "Spicy Yellow and Rose" nemesia.

There are hanging baskets of many kinds all over the Garden to give visitors ideas

about what they could do at their own homes.

Looking up from the lower path to the upper - yellow "Pomponette" daffodils

and a border of red and pink tulips.

Yellow "Pomponette" daffodils, red and pink tulips, and a "Strawberry Parfait"

Crabapple Tree.

This is a beautiful and colorful part of the Garden.

"Bright Gem" Batalin tulips; they are quite small and delicate.

"Bright Gem" tulips with deep purple "Coral Bells"

"Bright Gem" Batalin Tulips

"Sun Disc" Narcissus were small and rounded

This was identified as a "Jade Red Crabapple Tree."  I don't know why.  It is a

"weeping variety" of the flowering crabapple.

Branch of "Jade Red Crabapple Tree"

A small planter on a shelf, with "Sorbet" pansies.

Large cupped "Golden Echo" daffodils.

"Colossal Blue Bacopa"

An amazing hillside with "Grandio White" Pansies, orange "Ballerina" tulips,

double red "Margarita" tulips, and purple with white edges "Dream Touch" tulips.

The purple and white "Dream Touch" tulips were the most spectacular in the Garden.

They are raised only in Holland.

"Dream Touch" purple tulips, red-orange "Margarita" tulips and orange with red

"Ballerina" tulips.

Brilliantly colored mixture.

"Dream Touch" Purple and White Double Tulips.  They are as big as peonies.

"Golden Rays" Large Cupped Daffodils

"Sunny Day" yellow narcissus

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