by Web Editor

Mar. 29, 2013

When we went out in the garden this week we couldn't help seeing Easter eggs everywhere....delightfully dyed in pastel Pascal colors. Pinus parviflora 'Cleary' caught our eye immediately, with its clutches of tiny, vivid magenta ovoid eggs are sprinkled over the branches of the Korean fir Abies koreana 'Horstmann's Silberlocke' - those cute little things couldn't really be cones, could they?

Raspberry colored egg-like cones grace the branches of Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns'

Tall, hulking Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns' has some of the most delicate cones, which are small-sized even when mature. They make up for lack of stature in sheer number; this 'egg basket' of a tree, which is only about 6' tall, has hundreds of cones on it this spring.

Pinus densiflora 'Golden Ghost' is all decked out for Easter in a yellow spring coat, and holds a brace of deeply etched eggs in this clutch. It's hard for anything to compete with that incredible, dramatic foliage!

Normally a subdued and dignified shrub, Abies arnoldiana 'Poulsen' indulges in attention-getting behavior by producing cones in the most outrageous shade of deep raspberry imaginable. It's hard to believe that the Easter Bunny was willing to part with these!

And what's an Easter Basket without jelly beans? Sedum rubrotinctum sure fits the bill. In warm weather the 'jelly beans' turn green with just a few hints of red, but cool winter and early spring temps bring out the bold red. Perhaps cinnamon-flavored? Now the only thing that we're left wondering is if that huge jackrabbit we startled this morning was really the Easter Bunny...