What's Looking Good March 2025

Thank you @Victoria

 

Hi Caroline, no secret formula I'm afraid, I think they just like our soil and climate because I see an awful lot of them around the village in other people's front gardens.
If it helps, we're in the low lying land between the Kent Downs and the East Sussex High Weald, which means neutral to slightly acidic soils (unlike the Downs), dry summers and very mild winters.

 

@AdrianBg thanks - we can manage the mild winters but it's the dry summer that's difficult!

 

We bought the one below in 2020, but I forgot the name.






The Hebe is flowering soon. It's in the corner where the Spring plants are because the sun reaches here the ground in the morning hours in March.






They have never looked so happy before I moved them to my old bed and where they came into a proper prepared soil.

 

The first one is Iberis sempervirens and the 2nd one looks like Rosemary.

 

Thank you very much for the Iberis sempervirens
I'm a great fan of Rosemary & Thyme (the programme on telly).

 

I wish I was as knowledgeable as the character 'Rosemary', she seems to know everything about plants

 

Is the third one really a Hebe? @simone_in_wiltshire? Those buds look full of promise!

 

Yes bought it last year, but the label disappeared. I wrote in my notes last year: a Hebe.

 

Ribes sanguineum





Promise of things to come. Clematis viticella shoot on arch.

 

The hellebores and daffodil pond are still going strong. The hellebores have been flowering since before Christmas. The celandines have now joined the party and are flowering all over the slope. Need to prune that buddleia in the foreground this weekend.

 

The notched edges on the leaves suggest Osmanthus to me.

 

They suggested all sorts of species to me but having looked up Hebes a bit more, I'm not going to argue with Simone

 

This morning's warm sunshine has woken up these Anemones.