Dwarf Crested Iris and Native Azaleas were abundant in the woods behind our house when I was a youngster. Now I have them in my own garden.

	Entrance to Spring Wildflower Garden.		Wildflowers enhance small trees and shrubs in the woodland.
	The cute little Hoop Pettycoat daffodil, Narciccus bulbocodium, is very diminuative and spreads very, very slowly.		Dwarf Crested Iris, Iris cristada, grew in the woods where I played as a child. I couldn't garden without them.
	Natives Tiarella wherryii, Foamflower with Solomon's Seal. To its right is Iris tectorum 'Alba,' the coveted white Japanese Roof Iris.		The long-blooming yellow wildflower, Chrysoganum virginicum, seeds in beautifully all over the garden. At only 6" tall, it enhances all other plants..
	Behind the blooming wildflowers is evergreen Christmas Fern, a well-behaved, drought tolerant fern.		If you don't get out into your garden often, you may miss the flowers of Paeonia japonica, which are fleeting in the spring woodland garden.
	With 10" stalks of dainty white, bell-shaped flowers in spring, Epimedium x youngianum 'Niveum' is a wonderful dry shade lover.		Polystichum polyblepharum, or Tassel Fern, is absolutely my favorite fern. The fronds arch out from a central crown and are very soft...beautiful beside our native Asarum.
	Tricyrtis (Toad Lily) resembles a miniature orchid. It blooms in October and won a blue ribbon for me at the State Fair.
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Dry Streambed Garden		Camellia Forest