What's Looking Good In March 2022

Yellow Epimedium is just starting but the other colours are always later


Looks like Aquilegia but is a Thalictrum that grows up to 10ft tall

 

Our wild area is just waking up and should look lovely in a few weeks time




















We have a lot of people come round and pick their lucky heather.

 

Thanks, that is only the start of them and some kids in the past have called it Fairyland. We have all colours of Cowslips from the traditional yellow through to deep crimson. Over the years they have been rather promiscuous and we now have a lot of orange and different shades of pale red. The Primroses have spread throughout the flower beds and those are much more advanced and in larger clumps, probably because they don't have to compete with the grass and other plants. In the summer we get a lot of Bee orchids and Pyramidal orchids. The area doesn't get mowed until August apart from some paths through it - to the compost heaps and bonfire.

I'll have to ask the head gardener when she wakes up as I can't remember the name

 

@Balc The boss says it's Armeria maritima - sea thrift.

Some more Cowslips and Primroses dotted around the garden. most of them self-seeded

 

And can't leave out the Rhubarb patch as it looks after us so well . That's just part of it and I sold 20lb for charity a couple of days ago

 

More to come