Neal, I really like Virginia Bluebells too. The parents of a friend of ours have a 500 acre farm that is along the Potomac River that looks like that second picture in spring. Absolutely beautiful. I've been trying for years to get a smaller version of that look down along the creek bank along the entrance drive to the property. I've only been able to add 10 to 15 plants a year and they just aren't spreading at all. Slow going. I finally decided that I'll buy volumes of plugs - planting 100+ each year, but I probably won't start until 2017, not enough time to get to everything that I already have planned for 2016
They look really nice combined with old fashioned bleeding hearts (dicentra spectabilis) and trilliums too
