April 8, 2026 John Claudius Loudon, Thomas Drummond, Barbara Kingsolver, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies by Maria Noël Groves, and Georgiana Molloy

The Daily Gardener · Apr 8, 2026 · 13m

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April has settled in now.

And the flowering shrubs are beginning to prove it.

Magnolia first.

Those thick, velvet buds holding their breath until one early week in spring coaxes them open — white, cupped petals balanced on fragile bare branches.

Then forsythia.

A rush of yellow before a single leaf appears.

All flame.

No hesitation.

Then growth like a weed.

And lilac — the fragrant lavender favorite that…