What's looking good APRIL 2024

A great way to spend your retirement!

 

Wisteria floribunda macrobotrys getting into it's stride..

It grows with R. Pierre de Ronsard

So far so good for the Hostas

The Heucheras are doing better this year in the cool and damp

Acer palmatum dissectum shouldn't grow here, but it does!

 

Wisteria 'Black Dragon'

Clematis 'Westerplatte'

Clematis Crystal Fountain

Clematis Josephine

Heuchera 'Caramel' with Philadelphus c. Aureus

 

Green over your Wisterias, really lovely, and your Clematis Josephine is a belter!

 

Zantedeschia Pink Mist


The first water lily flower....Fire Opal

and the first tall bearded Iris

Cistus

Zantedeschia 'Green Goddess'

 

Tulip ‘Vincent van Gogh’ and others

 

Not one of my own .. but I have walked past this rosemary for many years and admired it. Today in the midday sunshine it was absolutely buzzing.

 

When Pippa from the ITV Weather team on ITV Meridian two days ago said, "mind the white bluebell, they are rare", showing an image sent from a viewer with one white bluebells surrounded by many blue only bluebells, I thought, they haven't seen my garden.
My white bluebells outnumber the blue ones.

 

A few taken on a dull morning ...

Mecanopsis (and an old compost bag - my garden is currently in a mess !) :-



Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow' :-



Euphorbia 'Silver Swan' (cutting flowering inside a shelter) :-



Dicentra (or whatever it's new name is but whatever it is it's too complicated for me so I'm sticking with the old name because it's easier to remember and everyone knows what it is) :-



Thrum eyed Primula vulgaris :-



Omphalodes cappadoica 'Starry Eyes' :-



Prunus triloba :-





Lewisia inside a shelter :-



The prettiest flower in my garden, Bella looks good in every month ...
Her gaze is fixed on something .

 

My small offering…….
Erodium Spanish Eyes


Pieris Little Heath


Heuchera Marmalade


Forget Me Nots.

 

I absolutely love tiarellas at this time of the year.

 

The shady bed has got more Bluebells surrounded by Dicentra Alba.



This little one is allowed to stay in the Verbascum. Maybe one of the Tits spots it, otherwise moths are also welcomed. My neighbour told me that I would have the Great Tit in my Tit nesting box.



Deutzia is developing buds.



First Wild Geranium flowers on the left and Camassia on the right.

 

I was determined this year to share photos of my garden...but with the scaffold being up and it looking like a sh...ole, I will wait to share!

 

Yeah yeah yeah.