What's looking good In April

Hi everyone lovely variations of colour and plants.

 

Hi Bluequin beautiful photos of Mount Fuji,From memory I think the Tulips were the early single "Flair"

 

Lovely plants and colour, folks

Another week has gone by and the warm weather is helping everything progress well.

The Katsura is starting to come into its own





The epimedium is opening more flowers and starting to show its heart shaped leaves





This is Waldsteinia turnata (not a buttercup) and is an evergreen ground cover plant that is happy anywhere with well drained soil. It is good under trees where the soil is dry and poor





Brightening up our brand new bed









The exochordas are starting to flower and they look as though they are going to be magnificent this year







These never fail to look good in the garden
Primula denticulata and muscari









And the hostas are sprouting in their pots





The woodland area is burgeoning





and the lamium has now opened sufficiently for the bees to enjoy





with the ladybirds watching






On the edible side the rhubarb is doing well and I sold about 20lb the other day





and the black plum blossom has come out




Our 'fairyland' has over a dozen large areas of multi coloured primroses, primulas and cowslips









The alpine gardens that Mrs shiney has made for sale are starting to flower





Our late flowering magnolia has decided to start early this year

 

Bi Coloured Tulip

 

Jazmine, that name was given to it a few years ago by a lttile girl.

The cowslips etc (mainly cowslips) cover an area of approx 1,000 sq ft. One of the local garden centres has asked for some of the more unusual coloured cowslips. So I shall drop some off when I take an advertising poster for the open day (I suppose I should call it 'open days' or 'open weekend' but it doesn't sound quite right).