what's looking good in april 2012

Angelina, some nice strong colours there and I love the delicate Rhodo. That's an acer with the tulips. I can't remember which variety of acer, if I ever knew, and it's a short, slow growing one. Mrs Shiney grew it from seed.

 

Hi loveweeds, it depends on where in the garden the plants are. Our whole garden is covered in aquilegia in May and then different parts of the garden have other plants taking over. On the flower bed by the front footpath we have it solid with aquilegia and some irises in May, then in June and July it's completely covered in wild poppies and then comes masses of crocosmia from July to September.

The front bed is the first picture in this next thread that I posted in 2008. The thread is a preview of our garden that we open for charity each May.

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/sneak-preview-of-open-day.16514/

 

It's the last week of April and this is some of what's looking good at the moment in the garden:

Exochorda now coming into full flower:



The Harebells and Bluebells in the Oak Barrel for my Rose "White Skyliner" by the Kitchen door.





The young leaves of the Acer Briliiantisimum which in the evening sunlight seem to be luminescent.



Solomon's Seal just coming into flower:



My Aquilegia will take another week, I reckon, to flower, but the Harebells are now appearing in the borders.

 

Yes, nothing ever gets moved and the other plants grow through them. They all have to fight for themselves . Most of the plants have spread on their own (they don't need any help from us ).

Yes, the red annual poppies - but they're not all red.









I forgot to add that, in the front verge, we also have allium siculum growing like mad.



At some stage I expect one or the other of the plants will win the battle for space, but until then we let them do their own thing.