A walk through a backyard garden:

Fragrant sweetbox in bloom

Hellebore or Christmas rose with flower buds starting to open

Pachysandra getting ready to bloom

Hydrangea with leaf bud emerging

Rose with leaf buds emerging

Dogwood with buds

Red bells with buds and last year’s seed capsule

Bleeding heart emerging from the ground

Scientific names and families:

Sweetbox/Sarcococca hookeriana – Boxwood Family: Buxaceae

Hellebore/Helleborus niger – Buttercup Family: Ranunculaceae

Pachysandra/Pachysandra terminalis – Boxwood Family: Buxaceae

Hydrangea/Hydrangea macrophylla – Hydrangea Family: Hydrangaceae

Rose/Rosa ‘KORfullwind’ – Rose Family: Rosaceae

Dogwood/Cornus florida – Dogwood Family: Cornaceae

Red Bells/Enkianthus campanulatus – Heath Family: Ericaceae

Bleeding Heart/Lamprocapnos spectabilis – Poppy Family: Papavaraceae