March Garden Colour

Three more ideas for you - plus a group


Veronica Georgia Blue - a beautiful trailing plant whose first flowers appear in January, but really gets going in March. Lovely blue flowers, and purply green leaves. Not fussy about soil and will tolerate partial shade.



Not so sure about the variety of cyclamen this is, but it comes up every March - colours are pink as here, white, and a very pretty red.



Anemone Blanda - corns are best planted in autumn, and loves woodland settings. Blue or white, its a lovely pool of colour in early spring. First leaves appear in January, and first blooms late february, but March is its best time.



a combination to tempt - primulars, pulsatlis (? spelling)and a variegate pieris (that struggled here cos it was too dry and had to be moved) veronica georgia blue and ericas

[ 09. September 2005, 09:29 PM: Message edited by: Fran ]

 

Its nice to look back on spring, when we're in late summer/autumn, and look foward to next year.
Spring bulbs are on sale now.

 

True, I bought 3 treated hyacinth bulbs from wilko's last weekend...its a beautiful scent at xmas

ONLY 106 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT!!! :D

 

Thats why I thought I'd start at January Pete - I just felt that maybe that we would develop a growing resource of members pictures and word pictures that would help the new gardener and ideas for the experienced gardener - more reality than a catalogue. But it needs adding to by other members in words or pictures, the colour they have, stem, berry, foliage or flower

 

Yep I see what your aiming for, get to April and I might be able to help out. :D

 

I agree its lovely to keep a record of your garden through the seasons and your pictures are lovely Fran. I took these in my garden March this year.

 

Primulars are just such great colourers over winter, - they are green, and flowers start really early. Any colour you can get through the drear months is worth its weight in gold Tough as old boots too. Thanks Petal - blue and yellow, mmmmmm I need more of those.

 

Camellias flower over a long period but march flowering ones are probably the earliest ones that you can grow and hope to avoid the frost on the flowers, in most areas of the UK. There are loads to choose from, and lots of different flowering times and colours.

 

Euphorbia Wulfenii, flowers early to mid march for me, Not really troubled by frost, so no brown frosted flowers likely with this one. Can get pretty big, but is good for a corner in full sun. Doesn't mind it dry, in fact that does limit its size to some extent.Mine reaches 5ft in a wet year by 7ft spread.
Not suitable for childrens play areas as the sap is pretty toxic.

 

That Camelia is wonderful Pete and obviously very happy.What kind of soil have you got? I wasn't a great fan of euphorbias - but after that picture will rethink. BTW - a fried of mine in the states sent me some euphorbia seed - the seedlings have now developed their flowering bracts - I never seen the like - white and green. I'll be growing these babies on.

 

another camellia excellent flowerer april past its best.

 

Nice one Hans
Fran I've got more or less neutral soil, with the odd lump of chalk in it, tends to be heavy clay if left to it own devices. I know they like acid soil(I forgot to mention that) :rolleyes: but I've never been one to let a little thing like the wrong soil stop me growing something I like, so I built a raised border, filled it with lot of organic matter, and with the once a year application of sequestrene I can grow what I like,virtually.
Still struggling with an Embothrium though.
:(

 

hello fran lovely pictures i may do that next year picture diary of the garden i am sure the cyclamen is a variety called coum :D :D

 

Thanks Brazil, I will make a note of the variety. This could be quite a resouce in time for those planning their gardens, as well as ideas for those with established gardens.

 

March is when the garden all starts to come together and spring gets truely underway.

Only the 1st of March and still plenty to come but these little bulbs (I think they are a form of Scilla) have a sumptuous shade of blue. Left to themselves they seed freely and will naturalise almost anywhere from relatively dark shade to this sunny gravel path beside a wall.