Photo: Perennial favorite

Elaine Parmett works on a garden of perennials including tulips and daffodils in the front yard of her Florence home Thursday. A recent transplant herself, Parmett lived for many years in Shelburne Falls, where she was a longtime volunteer at the Bridge of Flowers. These are recent purchases, but when she moved to Florence last year she brought many of the perennials from her home garden — her “children” as she calls them — and planted them in another plot closer to her house. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING

Elaine Parmett works on a garden of perennials including tulips and daffodils in the front yard of her Florence home Thursday. A recent transplant herself, Parmett lived for many years in Shelburne Falls, where she was a longtime volunteer at the Bridge of Flowers. These are recent purchases, but when she moved to Florence last year she brought many of the perennials from her home garden — her “children” as she calls them — and planted them in another plot closer to her house. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING