Whats Looking Good April 2025

Kerria Japonica - just a single stem. It's been flowering for weeks now, but only just started to open its leaves.

 

My ornamental cherry

 

Narcissus 'Tête-à-tête'.


Erythronium. Just spotted this one today. I knew I had planted "something else" at the top of the slope but couldn't remember what it was.

 

Neighbour's Magnolia. It's been reduced in height unsympathetically, to put it mildly, so it's a horrid shape but the flowers are looking good.

 

Sanguinaria canadensis flora plena

Primula seiboldii (variety unknown)

Lovely new growth from peony rockii (seed from @noisette47 )

 

A magnolia I grew from seed 35yrs ago, its only flowered twice for me in all that time.


Contessa Lavinia Maggi and Roger Hall are again getting it together in the Camellia patch.

 

Is that Magnolia 'Stellata' @pete ? It's the only Magnolia I like.

 

Not sure what it is.

 

Bampton in Oxfordshire? That used to be a good little nursery when I lived out that way.

 

Hello @longk Yes, that's the one. It turned over the years into a big gardening centre with a cafe and shop extended. I love being at Bampton. I bought all trees and many plants from them. They arrange their plants not in groups but with complementary plants and so you end up buying 3 instead of 1 plant
Have a look at their website and you can see pictures of them.
Someone told me yesterday she lives (literally) around the corner of Bampton, and she told me it started as a little nursery.

 

I finished yesterday the neglected corner and removed the bug hotel which had never been looking really good and all it did was giving slugs and snails a good place to increase population.

I sorted out the bricks that can go to the tip next week and used the still good ones to create a Herb shelf.





The Cerinthe is a self-seeder and survived the winter. I have another growing in the greenhouse.



The Crab apple tree ‘Professor Sprenger’



I'm so proud of my Delphinium which I bought at Hilliers in Lechlade. I still cover it over night to protect from the little black slugs. And my Hedgehog is really doing well this year.



Even the Helenium Red Helena, a piece I had taken from the main plant, seems to grow now. You can see the tip of the leaves are all eaten by these little naughty slugs.



My Spirea also comes slowly.

 

All looking good @simone_in_wiltshire . What variety is your Crab Apple?

 

It’s a Professor Sprenger. The label said 3.5 x 2.5 meters. Looking into the internet, it might get 4 x 3 meters.

 

Iberis Sempervirons Tahoe, grown from a cutting, and Veronica Georgia both doing their stuff. Plus the first flowers on my Dicentra Formosa.

 

I have now decided this is Passiflora Betty Miles Young ...