What's looking good APRIL 2024

Cerinthe major...self sows all over the place!

Aquilegia 'Norah Barlow'

Ixia
Perennial stock Matthiola incana?

One of the first Irises

Alchemyst

 

Campanula ’Campala’ starting to flower

 

Apple tree looks promising...

 

Lovely iris @noisette47 - which is it please? Good acacia - mine died out in garden...which was that - costiniana?

 

Eek! I was hoping no-one would ask that It's one of a few from a local breeder who's notorious for not labelling his Iris varieties. The Acacia is retinoides

 

Well it's a very pretty iris anyway. I'll see if I can find any leftover retinoides
seed...

 

If that is the Acacia that you sent me seeds of, my second year plants were wiped out in Dec 22, in the freeze.
I dont think its very hardy.

 

Geranium sanguineum max frei basking in the merseyside sunshine yesterday.

 

I'll save some for you if it sets A piece of iris rhizome might accidentally fall into the package too
The acacia withstood a few nights of -5C / -6C last winter and -8C the one before.

 

Primula vulgaris 'Captain Blood'



Omphalodes and Polyanthus :-



Polyanthus :-



Dicentra and Pulmonaria :-

 

Bon courage for the sweeping!

 

Morning sun through Acer japonicum with seeds forming.

 

Hosta Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.

 

*channelling Julie Andrews*

Raindrops on hostas ...

 

@Papi Jo The sweeping will go for days but at least today not so much as the doors are all closed. It's raining! Not as forecast.

I love those glaucous hostas @ViewAhead but mine all get eaten by snails. I had over 50 in the ground and in pots in my Belgian garden and the slugs had nothing on these voracious Vendéen snails!