What's looking good APRIL 2024

At last! I've had a long wait for these epimedium flowers!



And dicentras and ferns are doing their thing!

 

Apple blossom on the ancient trees and a few tulips.

 

Tulips are particularly photogenic flowers somehow!

 

Hosta unfurling, as yet unnibbled! Raised on pot feet with copper tape, in pot with copper tape, rim swaddled in copper mesh, eggshell topping ... and a rigid piece of lattice as a squirrel-guard for good measure. Call me cautious, but needs must!

 

Narcissus Ascot, noticed yesterday that the front garden ones were open. The back garden ones are still in tight buds. I planted the back garden ones earlier, but they are in pots whereas the front garden ones are in the ground and get more sun.

 

Bob's Tinsie still flowering today

 

And the weeping cherry in full flower now

 

Can’t remember what the first one is, wood sorrel?
Azalea, planted before we moved here
Miniature Choisya dewitteana -white dazzler, hasn’t had many flowers so far, but looks like it will be good this year,
Pieris Forest Flame, we put that in as a hedge, and it’s done really well.
Camellia Happy Anniversary. I think there may be at least one robins nest in there, possibly a wren as well!

 

Lonicera tartarica bought this cheap and then discovered it was an unscented thug (Remember: research first, buy second), as a result it got stuck under trees near the boundary. This is the first time it's flowered after some of the shading trees were removed.


Stachyurus praecox "Devon Purple Leaf"

Ipheion "Albert Castillo"

Disporum longistylum "Night Heron"

Tulipa saxatilis a stoloniferous tulip. Another that has benefited from removing the trees.

 

Your first pic looks like the wood anemone @Ergates - A. nemorosa. I've got one which is just starting to flower. The others aren't ready yet.
I like that Ipheion @NigelJ

 

Pictures not so clear due to dust haze and gusty breeze.

New Hibiscus Yellow Orange's first bloom ...



Red Hibiscus has half a dozen buds ...


Dianthus ...


Oxalis purpurea ...

 

Makes you feel young at heart.
Bluebells.


Male Trachy just about to do his stuff.
The girls are a bit behind.

 

Muscari "Grape Ice"

 

Leaves are looking pretty delicious at the moment! And it’s not just me saying that. Feel free to ask the slug and snail army currently infiltrating the garden and practicing guerrilla tactics.