What's looking good APRIL 2024

After some nice warm weather at the weekend we are back to very cold winds and lashing rain today! I am glad to have the pots on the patio to look out at:


The pelargoniums were from Lidl last week and are being very brave about growing away and starting to flower already. The hardy geranium came from a friend, and will get planted in the border once I have established what kind of pink its flowers are. The bird bath at the front is very popular with a pair of robins nesting nearby who take it in turns to get right in and splash around heartily (sorry not to have a photo of that!), and I am especially pleased with the tulips - Moulin Rouge, the first time I have grown them. They started off almost pure white and are getting more and more red on them as they mature:


On the other side of the patio is a lead urn with a dwarf fan palm, under-planted a couple of years ago with purple crocuses. Those have happily multiplying, the flowers are over now of course but the foliage still looks good:

 

Fab pots too @Clare G

 

more hosta lusciousness…

 

Yes...their permanent homes, on wheels When all the rest just gets the better of me, I'll be pottering around the terrace looking after them and making marmalade and mojitos

 

I'm keeping my eye open for a satsuma, but you know me, I dont want to pay stupid prices.

 

Are you any good at grafting? I could send some scions......

 

Not great, I just dabble, but I doubt anything would get through customs these days anyway.
But thanks for the offer.

 

A general view of the garden taken today between a couple of showers of rain (and hail).

 

Thank you, I do still have some stored from my initial collection so I will give those a go, hopefully they are still viable. I've also got a nice amount of poppy and nigella seed saved from walks last year. I've already seen a wild poppy in flower here.

 

Yes the ones in the planters at work are looking like that, they are drooping right over the edges. Still pretty though.

 

I have the white honesty (as well as the purple, and some variegated/coloured-leaved ones). It self-sows well if you leave it to do its thing - the seed heads seem to take quite a long time to open and shed their contents.

 

My Abutilon tree is coming back to life ...