What's looking good In April

Lovely poppy, simbad

Melinda, with a bit of luck it should bloom right through to mid June.


This tree peony has just opened. It has 22 buds on it.







I had to wait for a cloudy time of day (a couple of days ago) before I could take this photo of one of our exochordas. When the sun is out you need sunglasses on to look at it and the camera just shows a glare.





This phytolacca is knee high but was not showing anything at all a week ago. By July it will be 7ft tall. I reckon the first flowers will be out in a couple of weeks.

 

Hi everyone all beautiful photo,s my friends

 

Once again, great phots everyone

Simbad,
The phytolacca is very rewarding. In a couple of weeks it will start to look good and will continue right through to late autumn. What you need, if you can get it, is a piece of root from somewhere, best taken in October. A good piece looks like a lump of wood - or the root of an old rhubarb. It will produce a full size plant the next season.

Sorry folks, I'm going slightly off topic to give information

This is how it looks when it starts to come into full flower in June




A couple of weeks later




In August the flower has finished and starts to form the seeds




Late Aug through to Oct/Nov the seed heads come in to their own

 

Although the majority of the thousands of aquilegias in our garden are the wild type (which have cross bred and produced some nice varieties) we have a number of named types.

Adelaide Addison has now opened - this always seems to be a bit snooty and keeps away from the others. This one never grows taller than 12"





Red Hobbit is just starting. It grows quite bushy with lots of blooms. More photos later when it has opened properly.



We have some pure white ones (can't remember the name at the moment) which are very profuse but not open yet. I'll try to remember to take photos of some of our different one when they are open.


Some of our lupins are starting to show





And the tree peony just gets better every day