What's looking good MARCH 2024

At my cottage in the hills.

 

Looking good today....
Tulip "Little Beauty" smiling in the sun

A daffodil that was supposed to be "Ice Follies" but is streaked with lemon yellow


White Lamprocapnos (I was going to pull out that old cane but there were ladybirds just appearing out of the top)


A variegated honesty - I think this one is a mixture of Somerset Marble and Chedglow - it has features of both. Not decided whether I like it or not.


Persicaria "Red Dragon" started to grow - it seems early this year


Clematis "Multi Blue" growing through Cytisus "All Gold"

 

Cheerfulness [both colours] and Bridal Crown are both quite similar @Escarpment, and very very nice. I usually have some of those in every garden I've had. Not showing here yet

 

Thanks @fairygirl, will definitely have one or the other on my shopping list for next year. Went a bit mad with the big blowsy ones like Snowtip this year.

 

Freesias picked this morning in the greenhouse

Berberis valdivana

Lamium galeobdolon "Yellow Deadnettle"

 

I'd say JennyJB's clematis above is actually a macropetala, possibly 'Wesselton' or 'Maidwell Hall'.. one like that.. 'Multi-Blue' is a large flowered type, similar to 'The President'.

Lots of interesting plants shown above by everyone..

.. a few from me, mostly whites..
a young Pittosporum 'Silver Queen'..

Narcissus 'Thalia'.. scented..

Tulip 'Lady Jane' / Brunnera 'Jack Frost'..

Rhodanthemum 'Tangiers'..

Iberis 'Appen Etz'..

Iris pallida 'Argentea var.'..

Narcissus 'Segovia'..

..colourful Baptisia shoots..

 

Native kerria just getting going. I like the saucer flowers better than the pompom variety, but they don't last as long. It is less invasive though, and stays in a nice neat clump, rather than spreading like mad.

 

You're right @Mrs Hillard . I used to have multi blue in that spot but it gave up the ghost so I planted the macropetala instead. That was probably 7 or 8 years ago. Some days my brain is like a sieve!

 

I never noticed any scent from Thalia - must go out and have a sniff.
Edit: I can detect a very faint scent, but to me it's not particularly pleasant. Maybe it's one that needs warmth/sun to bring it out properly.

 

Daffodil "Snowtip" is looking its best today, the first time I've managed to photograph it dry. I bought a load of these bulbs in the Farmer Gracy end of season sale and planted them just before Christmas.

 

Geranium libani a tuberous geranium that comes into leaf in autumn/winter flowers in spring and then shelters below ground for the summer, likes well drained sunny position.

Oncostema peruviana "Paul Voelcker" was Scilla until the taxonomists got busy. A different form of O peruviana; less vigorous than the blue form.

Scilla lilo hyacinthus