Someday, this post is really going to date this time: spring 2020, the strangest one a lot of us have lived through.

if you have a gardener in your life, I promise, these items would be received with rejoicing.

Because the interplay of what’s blooming when is so specific to place and even to season, I wanted a way to see at a glance what was happening.

This is a personal essay I wrote for TOWN Carolina’s March 2020 issue about the time I spent at Great Dixter House & Gardens last summer.