What’s in Bloom – Spring
There are a lot of debates about the best season in Michigan, but certainly a favorite season would have to be spring. Sometimes as early as February you’ll find skunk cabbage blooming in the wetlands. For fans of flowers, spring offers weeks of blooms, from dainty spring petals carpeting the woodlands to bulbs, flowering fruit trees, lilacs, peonies, and many more.
Spring-blooming woody shrubs in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Allium in the perennial garden at Matthaei. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Azaleas blooming on Laurel Ridge near the peony garden in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Azaleas blooming on Laurel Ridge near the peony garden in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Bartzella peony blooming outside the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Bloodroot, a native spring wildflower, getting ready to open in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
(Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Dogwood on Laurel Ridge near the peony garden in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Epimedium in the Arb. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Hellebore in the Arb. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Iris near the perennial garden at Matthaei. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Magnolia blooming in Magnolia Glen in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
The Marie Azary Rock Garden at Matthaei comes to life each spring. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
The Marie Azary Rock Garden at Matthaei comes to life each spring. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Mountain laurel in the Heathdale area of Nichols Arbboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Native columbine at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden, the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
A redbud in the Arb. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Herbaceous peonies just starting to sprout in April at the Arb. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Tree peonies budding in the Nichols Arboretum Peony Gardens. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Tree peonies in bloom, often several weeks before herbaceous peonies. In Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
Virginiana bluebells in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
A weeping cherry near Dow Field in Nichols Arboretum. This cherry is a rare survisior from a group of weeping cherries given to the University of Michigan by U-M alumni living in Tokyo as well as the citizens of Tokyo, after World War II
Spring-blooming woody shrubs in Nichols Arboretum. (Photo by Michele Yanga.)
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