The colony of yellow disporum continues to unfurl with style, despite nighttimes that have nipped other foliage here and there over the whole garden.
But this plant is a confidently come-hither performer, bringing out gentle cascades of flower with the tasteful voluptuousness of Gypsy Rose Lee slinking an opera glove down her arm.
And yup, there I am, on my knees, bowing and photographing with the best of them.

Can I just say, up front and personal-like, that I hope never to say "Fairy Bells" in public. It is so twee that I worry I'd get heart-burn as well as cavities right there and then.
You too can help. All together please: "Dis-POUR-uhm". There. That didn't hurt, now, did it? There are about twenty species of disporums, all native to Japan and Asia, and plenty of hybrids too. (There are also five North American species, but these were renamed Prosartes.) Asiatica Nursery seems to be at the head of the disporum pipeline, with thirteen yummy choices this Spring, many named hybrids from Japan.
To start, do what I did: start with the easiest, Disporum flavens.
Disporums take a couple of years to ramp up. My colony is in its third year, and this is the first time the stalks—which shoot up in Spring as eagerly as bamboo—have buds. "Flavens" means yellow, and those buds are daffodil-bright. I'll catch this beauty as the flowers unfold, I promise.