What's looking good in April 2017

For me this is one of the best times of the year with all the refreshing multitude of colours as everything is starting to wake up and it is days like this I am glad I still have my eyes

The grass type leaves are seedlings of Fritilaria Melagris that I have finally managed to grow from seed

 

Everything is so far behind here that I'm glad that I never got rid of all the Muscari!
Muscari by longk48, on Flickr

Muscari by longk48, on Flickr

I have a few of the darker form dotted around which I really do like.............
Muscari by longk48, on Flickr

However, my small pot of Pleione is looking really good right now...........
Pleione by longk48, on Flickr

Pleione by longk48, on Flickr

 

Hi @longk
Lack of spring frost (up to now) has allowed the fuscia excortica to flower better this year, and I know you like small flowers.

 

I lost mine over the winter of 2012/13.

My Ledebouria socialis is under glass at night but outdoors during the day. Now these are small flowers..............
Ledebouria socialis by longk48, on Flickr

Ledebouria socialis by longk48, on Flickr

 

Tulip opaque..

Tulip pretty princess..

Tulip Ronaldo..

Daffodil decoy..

Hercules calla lily getting a spurt on..

Tulip Armani..

Daffodil Replete..

Tulip Blue Diamond..

 

Hi @longk Thankyou so much for putting up photos of your Ledebouri Socialis as I have one of these plants and I lost the label so haven't been able to look up on the net to see how to care for it.I bought it as a pot full but made the mistake of putting it outside in its pot over last summer and forgot about it and by the time I found it again most of it had died off apart from three little bulbs that I have managed to keep going but I see my bulbs need to be higher in the flower pot.I have it growing in my conservatory at the moment

Also have had to give up with growing Pleione as I have had quiet a number of them over the years but can't seem to be able to keep them going despite a lot of care so think I might have to leave them for the time being.Also the nursery I used to buy mine from got took over by the Wyvale group and have never seen them for sale anywhere apart from on line

 

Paeonia mairei


Arum creticum


Dicentra exima "Alba"


Cock Pheasant, seems to have adopted my garden.

 

I need some of them

 

Arum creticum unlike many of their relatives they actually have a pleasant scent.

 

It was formerly called Scilla violaceae. They're happy outdoors over the summer although frost will kill them.
Planted half depth is fine. So many of mine are above soil because the colony is rather overcrowded!

 

Clematis (forgotten the name) bought as a £1.79 plant from Morrisons last year.




Rosemary in full flower now



This teeny flower in a basket arrangement I received on Mothering Sunday



A wallflower