What's looking good APRIL 2024

Snails with excellent taste!

 

I'm not keen on lace @ViewAhead.

 

I like dark foliage.

In a pot…

Geum

 

Lovely photos @pitter-patter

Here's a couple more from my garden

Choisya and campanula


Camassia and geum


Blueberry

 

I few pics from me finally not much happening in the garden at the moment , the weather took care of anything worth taking a picture of over the past month


Couldn't quite get the picture I wanted with this but this little corydalis resembles really well with the Acer winter flame in the back ground - red stems with green / lime foliage

 

Looks great Perki. Love the double Daffodils.

 

We have 3 Paulownia tomentosa in our garden. The original is cut right back each April to allow the new shoots to send up growths that are 10-12 feet high with the magnificent HUGE beautiful silky leaves. No flowers. Took a root cutting some years ago and planted it down near our hazel coppice. Now it is flowering but as always the flowers are high up and no chance of a photo. We also took another root cutting 3 years ago and planted it on the edge of our orchard. It seemed to have died but then new growths appeared. Amazingly it is also in flower (very young plant) but again the flowers are at the top so can't get a photo. So pleased though that they are so successful.

 

Are the daffodils in the first picture ‘Carice’, @Perki? I was very fond of mine, but they haven’t returned this year. I did miss them.

 

Dicentra formosa

Dicentra exima

These Dicentra come from North America, D eximia from the East and D formosa from SW Oregon, so opposite sides of the Rockies. They normally come up at about the same time. This year the D formosa has been flowering since March, D eximia only emerged a week or so back, in fact I thought that it had died with the wet weather it was so late.

 

Yes they are Carice I forgot what they were until you've jogged my memory . I'll be lifting these and storing.

 

Lobelia Blue Bay oozing with health and vitality.

 

Deutzia rosea

Jenny namaste

 

Jug with violets

Allium Purple Sensation

Aquilegia, euphorbia and forget-me-nots

 

That's a lovely combo in the last photo, @pitter-patter.

I've never seen Dicentra Eximia before, @NigelJ. Its looks are closer to its relative Corydalis than other Dicentras.

 

@ViewAhead the taxonomists had a go at Dicentra a few years back and some ended up in Lamprocapnos Dicentra spectablis is now L spectablis and the climbing yellow Dicentra scandens ended up Dactylicapnos scandens.
D eximia and D formosa do look quite different to many Dicentra, I must have had those two for nearly 3 decades now and would recommend them to anybody.