spring

An Historic Trades gardener at work in the Colonial Garden.

Flanked by four boxwood topiaries, a native dahoon holly is the featured plant in the Bryan House garden.

Interpreters chat with one another on the steps of the Greenhow Tenement while another interpreter peers into her bag outside the Shoemaker's Shop.

The James Geddy House and shop.

Spring at the James Geddy House.

Tulips bloom in the spring garden at the James Geddy House.

An interpreter at work in the Historic Area in the spring.

A spring Leicester Longwool peeks through a pasture fence in the Historic Area.

Spring Leicester Longwool lambs frolic in a pasture in the Historic Area.

The Greenhow Tenement and the Roscow Cole House in the spring. The Roscow Cole is one of 88 original buildings in the Historic Area.

Wisteria grows along a fence at the St. George Tucker House.

Spring tulips bloom in the Colonial Garden with Bruton Parish Church seen just over the white picket fence.

Members of the senior corps of the fifes and drums perform in front of the Governor's Palace.

An interpreter portrays a liveried footman on the front steps of the Governor's Palace.

Leicester Longwool sheep line up for dinner as an interpreter pours food in their trough in the pasture behind the Taliaferro-Cole House. The steeple of Bruton Parish Church can be seen in the background.

A musician plays a guitar in the gardens behind the Governor's Palace.

An interpreter on horseback is silhouetted against a sunset on the James River.

Spring flowers bloom next to the picket fence in the front of the St. George Tucker House.

Interpreters attend buildings on Duke of Gloucester Street in early spring. (l-r) Millinery Shop, Golden Ball Silversmith Shop, John Carter Store, Unicorn's Horn, and Raleigh Tavern.

Detail of pink and purple Fava Bean (Broad bean) blossoms. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."

Leicester Longwool lambs in the Custis Tenement pasture in spring.

North side of Christiana Campbell's Tavern in the spring.

Elizabeth Carlos House Garden gazebo & well in the spring.

A topiary in Christiana Campbell's Tavern Garden in the spring.

The Elizabeth Carlos House Garden gazebo and well in the spring.