Calm Reflections Photography: April 2025

Calm Reflections Photography shares beautiful photographs that can be placed on mugs, mouse pads, canvas, puzzles, T-shirts, coasters and prints. Joanna Macaulay makes souvenirs of St. Mary’s County for tourists and local residents. Information about St. Mary’s County attractions, travel, events and photography can be found at her site. She now does pet photography as well.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Flowers at the U.S. National Arboretum in April Part 1

I wanted to see the tulips at Sherwood Gardens in Baltimore, but the trip was just a little too far away and I couldn't find any nearby restrooms, so we settled on the U.S. National Arboretum instead, since it was a shorter trip.

Does anyone know of any tulip fields in St. Mary's County? They had a few tulips at the Arboretum, but not 6 acres worth and most of them were behind a fence.

They did have quite a variety of beautiful flowers blooming, so I was satisfied. In the past, we usually visited in May to see the azaleas. Most of the azaleas weren't blooming yet and that was fine.

I will probably turn this into several posts, because there were too many pretty ones.

We smelled and saw some lovely wisteria too. The carpenter bees were certainly enjoying it.