I went over to Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland this morning to see what is starting to bloom. Despite seeing some of my favorite flowers blooming, I spent most of my time photographing a Daisen variety of a Japanese Pieris or Japanese Andromeda bush.

I was fascinated by the look of the cascades of little pink and white flowers contrasting with the green leaves. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed photographing the flowers.

Daisen Japanese Pieris
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins

For anyone in the DC area – the daffodils, dwarf irises and other early flowers are already blooming at Brookside. I’m sure I’ll be making several trips back to Brookside to photograph more flowers in the next few weeks.

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April on March 18, 2008 at 11:46 am

those are so pretty!
Raymond E st. pierre on May 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm

thank you for the great photos.have them as my desktop background .just planted 3 of these plants.hope I have good luck with them. took care in planting them.thanks again.with regards Ray/////////

Japanese Pieris a.k.a. Japanese Andromeda

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