What's looking good APRIL 2024

Flowering Cherry this morning

 

I love the delicate nature of Erythronium but ours have finished already.

 

Although we don't open our garden for charity we still sell plants and Hostas are always popular.

These are some of our stock plants and all four tubs were solid with Hostas and given to us to use. They were so solid with roots that the person that gave them to us couldn't get any out of the pots. For me to start getting them out I had to use a sharp pointed serrated blade knife and then Push the knife in and start sawing through the roots. We sold about 100 Hosta plants last year.


We have lots of them potted up and dotted through our nursery areas ready for sale. We don't sell them until they have had at least two years in the pots. Here are a few that are ready




And some of our own. Others aren't yet showing enough




It is early in the year for this bed and a lot of the plants in it grow quite tall each year. some years ago the bed was full with 22 Leylandii


This heather is still in full bloom and has been flowering for three months


I was out just after sunrise and the flies were sunbathing


Euphorbia mellifera is just starting to flower and the flowers will smell of honey




Perennial geraniums just starting to open and they spread like weeds but brighten up the beds


Bronze fennel also spreads like mad

 

English bluebells are always a bit late in our garden


Honesty (Lunaria) pop up everywhere but, as with most plants, anything that self seeds (or planted by birds) and is not in the way, can stay


We lost dozens of Hebes after the bigger freeze the previous winter. The only ones that survived were the smaller leafed ones. Some of the survivors are in the previous post


Our front verge by the footpath is coming along now


Hemerocalis


and lots of Irises as well as other plants. It's a very dry bed and the Irises love it


Arum italicum is all over the back garden and Mrs Shiney uses it a lot in flower arrangements


Solomon's Seal is starting to flower

 

Cytisus battandieri (Pineapple tree) has now got its flower buds out. When in full flower they are orange and look a bit like pineapple - and smells of it.


The tree is quite big but not so easy to see here


This silver birch is about 70 years old and we lost its twin in the hurricane of '87


Our golden 'Gage' tree is close to 100 years old and still gives lots of fruit each year. We happily share them with the wasps who have had their nest in the ground for many years.
The fruit is only just beginning to show


Stachys have suddenly shot up


The last of this year's Bergenia flowers


Our late flowering Magnolia just starting. We thought we had lost it last year after the big feeze but it is coming back - sort of


spotted some more Hostas -these are being picked up today so are ready in a barrow

 

Thanks @ViewAhead ,

I haven't the faintest idea of the names and I don't think Mrs Shiney knows many of them apart from the ones we have elsewhere in the garden. Most of them were originally gifts to us for use to propagate for sale. I don't have a plant App on a mobile for two reasons:- Mrs Shiney is my plant App - and I don't have a mobile

No, neither of us had careers anywhere near gardening but have taught ourselves over many years. Mrs Shiney now gives talks and demonstrations on flower arranging and has lectured on 'Healing Plants' - as a hobby. We find gardening therapeutic and it helps to keep our more and more decrepit bodies moving