What's looking good in April

Just another Camelia, variety unknown

 

Wow...that's a cracker

 

Thanks Pal, I've had it in a pot(or two) for 12 years but never known the variety.

 

You may not know what variety it is srongy, but at least it knows what colour it wants to be.
Unlike this one of mine.

 

Clematis armandii, the perfume is outstanding, it's a month early as are most plants this year. Taken this afternoon.



Our garden is only small and consists of raised beds, water features, a pond and rockery area which is newly planted and not yet completed.



Lady at the well, not working because the birds like to bath in the shell

 

Super Camelia's - thanks for sharing, I'm liking this site a lot

 

These frogs are enjoying themselves, hope the goldfish survive this year - we now have 8 pairs of frogs in the small pond, so much spawn, do you think the fish will eat it?

Taken at midnight





Will they choose our box

 

Amazing pictures, thanks for sharing them with us.

 

Goldfish and frogspawn don't go well together, can you move the spawn somewhere with some of the pond water to stop them being gobbled up!

 

Forsythia and grevillea, cant work out why the forsythia seems so late this year, unyet most things are early.

 

The clianthus has made it fully out now.

 

The jatropha is still flowering, its not stopped all winter.

 

A beautiful Clianthus Pete,did you grow it from seed or was it a grafted plant?
Talking about late and early, Ceanothus is in flower and there are still a few daffs out and Laburnum coming into leaf. My Callistemon Citrinus Splendens has a flower open and there were quite a few Bluebells out on our walk this afternoon.

 

The clianthus is puncineus so its from seed and in the garden, but benefiting from the mild winter.
I have grown formosus but that is a completely different "kettle of fish", and not something I seem to have much luck with these days.


It seems that the mild winter has caused most spring flowering plants to come early, but just a few have been held back.

 

The garden is in its yellow phase at the moment..