What's looking good in April 2017

Viburnum Burkwoodii (Spring flowering and now starting to go over)



Viburnum plicatum (instead of growing like a large bush or tree it grows with horizontal branches and flat flowers) - just starting to open







Tree peony (a few weeks early)




Yellow tree peony


Exochorda The Bride






Laburnum also starting to flower early

 

Apple blossom




Pear blossom
Williams


Conference


Erysimum Chelsea Jacket




Skimmia and Erythronium (yellow)




Late flowering Magnolia nigrum (usually flowers through to July - in a sheltered position)


Dicentra




Trillium and Dranunculus vulgarus (to its right)

 

Poppies




Helichrysum Ruby Cluster






Epimedium




Lunaria (the more common coloured Honesty)


And the white version (was supposed to be variegated!)


Nigella


Clematis growing through the lilac tree


Erysimum Bowles Mauve

 

Euphorbia Mellifera (this is our small one ) flowers smell of honey and you can drink the nectar




Variegated Elderberry (we have purple as well)


Bay


Anthemis


Black Ophiopogon (Just recovering from being smothered under the big Euphorbia Mellifera)


Kerria


English bluebells


Coranilla (with a Euphorbia trying to hide it)


An early Allium siculum just starting to open

 

"Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not" and "ignorance of law excuses no one" respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because one was unaware of its content."

 

I agree, but it may bear somewhat upon the severity of the sentence.