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| Something I didn't consider when planting bulbs last Autumn . Alliums bloom June /July time, This years shade garden is so much fuller earlier than last spring…will Allium amplectens 'graceful beauty' make it's way though all of this? |
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| This was about the same time last spring , see what I mean ? I think Tulips next year ! |
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| Every day I go out intending to clear a few away , but no , the bees will have none of it. |
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| This year I'm trying a much simpler seed starting system…no indoor trays . I find I end up with too many spindly plants, that I refuse to toss away. They end up in every plastic pot I can find, forgotten, dried up and sad. So this year I have made use of all the terra-cotta pots I've got lying around;and there are many. I've got all annuals , so I can empty and clear them away at the end of the summer. So far , thanks to the warm tempts they are all looking good. Though I've just noticed the slugs and snails have been feasting on: Zinnia'Red Spider, Maltese cross and 'fairy trumpets. Selene has not been touched. I'll remember that for next time ! |
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| This is the combination I was after when I planted these Tulips in 2012 I remember being disappointed , the cynoglossum or Chinese for-get-me-nots didn't bloom at the same time as T. Ballerina and Roccoco I. If only I had settled for the Myosotis , so now I have …. |
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| My Lunaria corner , where everyone is welcome…. |
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| The Cerenthe major have been corralled against the fence |
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| I love these two Geranium samobor and Euphorbia oblongata |
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| persicara bistorta is getting around quite a bit ! |
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| I seem to have many purple Aquilegia this year , maybe the sports of 'Winky blue and white' |
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| The first of the Geums |
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| A new plant: Centaurea species , which is a sweet low growing one . |
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| I had to look this one up : Globularia cordifolia , another low grower. |
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| And finally I've added more to my greedy Primula / Auricula collection and they are all blooming in April. Happy bloom day ! Thank you Carol at May Dreams Gardens! |
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| I've been crouched down low looking for all the new growth. This is the biggest Podophyllum I've ever had. The original plant is half the height, I don't know why , other then this one gets more sun . Maybe I need to move the rest over here. |
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| Erthroniums just past it's best , but taking over are the little yellow blooms of Epimedium lishihchenii |
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| Soloman seal and Carex 'Bowles gold' |
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| Aruncus and Pyrrosia and more Beesia |
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| Persicaria , Omphalodes , which is just starting to bloom along with the blue bells and primulas . The ghost fern un -furling, Bessias everywhere and many self-seeded Rumex, and I guess the native Tellima which was here when we moved in and is forever trying to take over. |
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| A baby Tetrapanex I transplanted last year |
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| A nice fat clump of Syneilesis with Beesia and many wild strawberries. |
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| Still some holes , but I see Rogersia and a few Hosta's coming on fast. Rosie still finds room to do her business. |
