What's looking good MARCH 2024

Thank you, @NigelJ , for posting the picture of the Arisarum proboscidium! I have three big clumps that come up every year, but never managed to find out what they were. And now I know! They are very trouble free and healthy, and I wouldn’t mind cultivating them elsewhere in the garden. Is this difficult to do?

 

Thanks to @Perki I found this thread.

Unfortunately, I can't insert photos as I just noticed. I can just attach them. I checked the "How to" and other threads but are none the wiser.

@NigelJ Your primrose patch looks like what I would like to archive. Love it, and take your images as inspiration.

@LunarSea what size have your images when you upload them here? They are so sharp :-)

 

@Golarne I take photos with my phone and upload from there. I’m glad you managed to do it. Fritillaries are very photogenic !

 

@Ergates I find they spread too much with me. They divide easily enough and I just cut a corner out of a patch with a spade and then replant elsewhere. The tubers are about the thickness of a pencil and and are a couple of inches down. They don't seem fussy about when they are moved, if dry I would water well to settle in.

 

Mine took no effort as I just let the few under the trees (a few decades back) self seed and rogued out any that were too like shop bought polyanthus.
These days they get mowed off when the snowdrops and fritillaria have died back.

 

My fritillaries are only just coming through now. Lily beetles are becoming a problem here now, whereas they never were in the past. I've always grown lilies, and never had any problem with the beetles, but the changing climate is making it much easier for them to survive.

You have to get in and pick all the grubs, and their excrement off - great fun, and an ongoing sitution

 

@simone_in_wiltshire you have to use the Upload a File box here, not the little mountain.

 

Thanks, @NigelJ. Sorry if this was the wrong thread to ask on! I must take some more pictures of my garden in March.

 

the blue sky is looking very good and a rather nice pale pink Ribes

 

@pitter-patter I think the first year I had lilies I was OK but the year after, the beetles came and were so prolific I gave the lilies away and haven't grown any since. It was a few years later that I bought the fritillaries but it was only a couple of weeks until those started getting attacked as well so I didn't bother with them again. It's probably been a good 15 years since then so you never know, the little gits may have moved on!

@fairygirl I'd pick off the beetles and larvae every day and stamp on them but the next morning there'd be just as many again. I have no idea where they kept coming from but I just gave up

 

Hi Simone, glad you made it over to GC.

I save my jpegs at 1000px wide. Still don't look as good here as they did on GW though but perfectly acceptable nevertheless.

 

Blue hyacinths


Primroses


Anemone


Tete-a-tete narcissi

"Thalia" just opening

Helebore "Christmas Carol" seed pods forming, alongside a new flower

Edited 'cos I mucked up with the pictures

 

This daffodil has been repeat flowering in my garden for over 10 years with just three other soul mates nearby. It has very delicate colouration and I'd be interested to know if anyone recognises it .

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No chance, they're like vine weevils always on the hunt.
I check my lilies most days in the summer and dispose of any caught, generally in pairs. Fritillaria under trees are pretty much left alone may be too early for them.
I find that some of the species lilies are ignored compared to the hybrids.
A bit like Fuchsia bud mite seems to prefer the more highly bred varieities to some of the species.