What's looking good in March 2014

I've just wandered round the garden taking shots of plants that were basking in the early spring. Sixty five photos later.....

Nice and early this year - Ribes


with the individual flowers opening one at a time


Coronilla

 

It's a fairly common flowering currant (non-edible) - Ribes sanguineum. Deciduous and needs virtually no looking after - just looking at!

 

This seems to have crept into the greenhouse and is paying its rent by keeping so bright and cheerful. It has flowered all through the winter.



Not sure whether I should put the one above and this one on the 'houseplant' thread! They are in a 'house'.



The first of our tulips is showing the way for it's brothers and sisters





On another thread I was asked about one of our plants and whether we had acid soil - we don't. Here is another plant that is supposed to only survive on acid soil, but is quite happy in our garden.
I asked Mrs Shiney (she's the Shineyland gardening expert) about it the other day and she said "that's what they all say but I work on the basis that if you don't tell the plant it may not realise it!"
This camellia is covered in flowers and buds

 

I said earlier on this thread, or its predecessor, that we have a lot of pulmonaria. I like it a lot, as do the bees, and apart from being dotted all over the garden, this bed of them is 30ft x 3ft. The bed also has hundreds of various coloured cowslips, a lot of aquilegias and a number of shrubs - all happily growing through each other.

The pulmonaria are the first to flower but the cowslips will soon chase them.




The first of our double daffs are out but their heads are always too heavy for the stems and they break very easily once the heads have grown fully! I've tried putting supports in this time - after having taken the photo!



We have a campanula flowering already!!!!





Hepatica

 

We have dozens (probably hundreds!) of cowslips, primroses and primulas and the ones in the front garden are getting going nicely now. At the bottom of our garden we have them in profusion but they are always later (I think it's because of the cold winds from the fields).

 

Some more

 

Silu, lovely photos. The pheasants can become quite tame. We've had them in our garden for generations (theirs, not ours) and they know a good thing when they have it.




Leaves can look good as well







Down in our wilder area the cyclamen bed is in full leaf - they've spread all over the garden as well!

 

I think so. Can't really remember but I'll look to see whether the label is still there. The birds tend to have fun pulling out the labels and sticking them in by another plant!!!