What's looking good In April

Shiney, Woo, Louise, Strongy and Willow - thank you for all your lovely pictures.


Sorry - this is another picture of a Brugmansia. In fact this was a cutting that I took in November of the large plant I showed earlier in this thread. Its now flowering. But the reason that I am showing it, is that the plant itself is just 8 inches tall, but the flowers are 10 inches long and thats excluding their stalks.

Its not big, but it sure is blousey. Eat your heart out Rose lovers and Dahlia fanciers.



This is Nicandra. sown on 21 Jan. Its a lovely annual that gets up to about 4 or 5 feet with me but can go as tall as 8 feet, I understand. I love the flowers, especially the buds and those purple spotted leaves.

 

Lovely pictures Willow and Peter.
You've just reminded me Peter I have some seeds of the shoofly plant somewhere in the depths of my seed box must get them sown.

 

Peter, that Brug formed a Y quite early to flower that small.:thumb:

 

Like the Brug, Peter, guess being a cutting presumably from a flowering plant, it was ready to flower from day one, under your lighting.
Bought a brug plant myself this year, having a go again after a few years without. Hoping I can keep the RSM at bay this year.

 

Strongy, as Pete said - it was a cutting from above the Y on a flowering plant, so the entire cutting is an adult and in theory capable of flowering from day one. However I hadn't expected it to flower so early. They are extraordinary plants.

 

It was a pretty miserable day here, but for the first time this year I actually managed to sit and have a beer in the garden without jumping up every 20 seconds to trim something or weed something....

Tiarella Spring Symphony


An Acer on it's way - Beni Maiko


A new Lithodora just planted

 

I like your Tiarella Bluequin. I keep seeing it at the Harrogate Flower Show - but I have never seen it in a garden.

 

I only managed to get a few snaps a week or so ago....


Not too sure of the variety, but have had them out in one of the front displays for a few years. (please excuse the out of control muscari in the back ground).


Part of the display in one of the back garden beds. Bought these end of season last year, never saw them flower. Left them in a pot over winter, and that and the soil improver this year seem to have done it a favour!! Lots of lovely lightly edged blooms.


A larger shot of one of the back displays. Lots of daffs have come up since this pic, bought two huge bags of mixed and cheerfulness whites. This area is my main project this year....trying to get some bits established as the area was completely cleared last summer.


We have since cleared the messy pots at the back, which has opened up the area around our large hawthorne, and to the back of the woodland area. Love the foliage on these tulips, not too sure which type. aFew alliums in the adjacent corner starting to bud up!


This is my fave daff, still trying to work out what type it is, or if it's just occured from stress to the flower. Came out of a mixed bag I put in last year. No others the same.


This has really come on this year.

Sorry they're not brill quality as they were taken on my iPhone.

 

I'm just loving the pictures!

Here's a photo taken of our wisteria, a few days ago - I never knew how strongly scented wisteria is, until I moved here!

 

My photo looked so flat compared to the others I thought I'd better see what I could do. So after picking a colander-ful of ground elder for supper , I went out and about with the camera...

the last of the wood anenomes


but the bluebells are starting now


I think this is Henrii (sorry - should have taken this piccie this morning)



the lilac is looking good


and I always love the sheen on the tulips


the lanium (white dead-nettle) is keeping the bees busy


but the wisteria is so lush!

 

Wonderful pictures everyone :-)
Sian can you really eat ground elder, spend my life trying to eradicate the stuff from my garden, but if you can eat it maybe it has a use after all.

 

I've not tried it before, simbad, but I'm giving it a go tonight, having looked up how to cook it on this website

Downsizer: for a sustainable & ethical future - Ground Elder Recipes - Eat Your Way to Eradicating a Troublesome Weed

I'll let you know how we fare!