What's looking good this March?

Gorgeous photos, Marley! And it just goes to show that the flowers we see around everywhere are just as beautiful as the rare ones! :D

 

Roders and Marley wonderful picture - make me feel positively spring like.

Welcome back Whiley - I hope your new babies are doing well. Wow 21 on Friday - the celebrations will be duly serious and sober to mark this auspicious event - but I betch they ain't. :D :D

Have a wonderful 21st.

 

Hehehe it surely will interesting! My boyfriends a barman and knows his cocktails do will be doing all sorts there! Lots of colours! :D

I meant to be going to collect party things today, paper plates, etc, but i'll likely be found in the gardening areas of shops! Nothing like poundland and poundstretcher for trays and seeds and things! Mind you, its the only things here!

 

Tulipa Turkestanica. I have never seen it as early.

 

I like that, Blackthorn, they are so pretty.

I planted some here and they bloomed the first year but I didn't see them last year. I have lots of bulbs coming up in pots around the Yucca and other such plants, so maybe it will show itself this year.

 

I'll continue with the yellow ...

Thunbergia, which has bloomed non-stop since last summer ...



and the pink with the lovely Podranea ricasoliana which has just started blooming again ...

 

LOL, podranea ricasoliana, I've had a plant in my greenhouse for about three years and not a flower yet.
That flower looks very similar to my Chiliopsis, think its the same family, bignonia.

 

Haven't got my Chilopsis going yet if I've got the right plant. Isn't a Chilopsis (without me looking it up) a grass-like plant? This is an invasive climber ... you can see it's above the orange trees, which I purposely left in the photo for effect!

I think I sent you the other variety of this which is less hardy.

Actually, now I look back the flower does looks like Chilopsis ... can't remember offhand who has it here but I have the photos in my screen-saver whirly-go-round. Is it yours, pete?

 

Shouldn't really post this here as it was last summer, but this is chilopsis linearis,great flowers, but a nasty smell.

 

It is yours, pete, because that is what I've got on my screen saver plus another one, a more distant picture ...

I bought some seeds from Chiltern because you told me they would do well here ... first lot haven't germinated, but I'll do second lot this weekend.

 

So two lots of passion flowers in bud, in very different parts of the country - great stuff!! :D


One of my buds won't be flowering though - I've seen that there isn't much inside of the bud left.... guess we've got helpful, hungry earwigs again! Hope they let at least one flower :rolleyes:

 

Lovely photos everyone.I must be getting slow as I keep missing all the best things :(