What's looking good MARCH 2024

I have a few types of those small tulips @JennyJB - there's several with similar colouring though.
The newest ones I've got - Odalisque, were potted up and kept undercover for a large part of the winter to stop them getting too wet, so they've been flowering for a wee while. I think I posted a pic of them here.
The others are in the raised beds, but they don't all survive readily, so there's only a few showing. Some of the other species tulips are starting to come away.

 

Yes, Jenny, but I have some in England too.

 

I couldn’t resist buying some similar tulips when I saw them carpeting the ground beneath silver birches at Anglesey Abbey. They looked lovely growing through a short erysimum, but vanished after a couple of years

 

They do need sharp drainage @Golarne , just like their bigger relations, so it's difficult to keep them healthy in the ground. I tend to have them in raised beds for that reason, but some are easier than others too.
Persian Beauty is one that I have, and there's another one as well but I can't remember the name.

 

Tulips Abu Hassan and Slawa just opening up. Havran
(Dark red, late) still to come. Sun at last for them.

 

And Camellia “Anticipation”, so heavy with bloom some of the branches are bending. The wind isn’t helping….!

 

This ivy leaf looks really interesting.


Anemones and sempervivums

Tulip ‘Avignon’

 

I found this little narcissus broken off in the garden, so brought it inside and stuck it in a jam jar of water. The flowers are just under 2 inches across. It's the only one of its kind I've got, so I think it must have arrived with some free bulbs I was given at work. It has a heavenly scent, and it's now been in the jam jar for a week with no sign of deterioration, so I think I'd like to buy some of these for next year if anyone can suggest what variety it might be.

 

@Escarpment Possibly narcissus ‘Cheerfulness’ or ‘Bridal Crown’. But there are other similar ones.

 

Lovely spring garden @Logan.
My only offering today is that my Orange Dream Acer has started to break out in leaves.

 

Thanks, Bridal Crown looks like a good match.

 

The other day I had one perfect flower open on my pink tree peony and a few buds looking promising.

Since then Nelson has stormed past and it's all looking very bedraggled.

 

Thank you @Brenda

 

There's a bit more interest in the garden today as new fronds and leaves continue to emerge.

Unknown fern fronds.



Anemone blanda with emerging shoots of Hakonechloa macra 'Aureloa'



Hosta 'Volcano Island'. Nice lime green leaves with dark green margins and red stems.

 

Looking good in the Easter sunshine today us Ribes aureum … a gift some years ago from
@Angie Jones (nut) who grew it from seed.




A few years ago I feared we would lose it when it was badly squished during some major tree-work .., but it’s proved to be remarkably resilient … and the bees love it.

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