Weather beaten, but looking nice.
A scion I removed and repotted, now a stick and budding, should make a nice decorative apple tree.
A really great year for hyacinth.
One of the newer berries, I forgot to check which.
Turns out the vine that grew out from under the laurel, super long like a bramble, is actually a honeysuckle shoot, how it went so far in is a mystery. It looked like a blackberry at first, hence the confusion.
Clematis shooting up.
Indoor olive tree is budding again.
Foxglove is shooting up.
Must be the weather for them, they haven’t done so well in the last few years.
Think that’s one of the older roses, might be a white one.
Back rose is escaping.
The rain pushed The Rambler down a bit which is good, but now I may need to prop it up instead of pulling it down!
Aubretia and Irises, the root-ball kind, in a sink.
The Rose Garden tulips that skip a year every other year are out.
It was a good day, Dear Reader.
From a stick to this.
Yo, Dear Reader, today was supposed to be a wash out and instead became a really Summery day, I can’t even guess at tomorrow, but I made the most of the day and should be able to start getting some seeds down soon. I can’t tell if it’s the later start, we didn’t have the usual hot start to March that fades back into cold just before April, but I’d swear that there are Summer plants and bulbs starting much sooner than they usually would. I do know the daffodils are incredibly late, they’ve started sooner in warmer parts of the country so it’s not a universal thing. I’m just doing whatever I can think of, Dear Reader, trying to be less rigid and stressed, I’m just filling pots and guessing at estimates of what I need, I’ll go over, but that’s fine too. I can see onions starting that were over wintered and the barest hints of the Spring planted appearing just now as the garlic stalks start to thicken up so I can figure where things are even if it’s out of sync with the season.
Anomalous peonies are up.
A tree I bought came with these, I hope they survive.
Smaller cluster in the front skimmia.
Second purple broccoli is heading too.
They’re late, but pretty.
Braided and beautiful until it goes wild again.
So small they were hard to capture.
This is new to me, but it looks good for a plant shoved into a pot. If it’s good I’ll grow more this year for next year.
Glory in the snow if I’m not mistaken.
It feels like it just burst suddenly, looked so mall before.
Refused to toss the pit of wild hazelnuts and lo and behold, others are opening too.
Jostaberry is twisted, but growing.
Magnolia buds are strange looking.
Yeah there are a lot of photos, there are a lot of plants suddenly.
Some of the tulips I won in a bundle.
Should see fruit this year or next. No rush.
Even the anemone are thriving this year, unlike last.
There isn’t a whole lot of interesting things right now, it’s mostly pictures of plants starting, many of whom didn’t do so much in previous years so I have an eclectic mix…even more eclectic. I’m mostly filling pots and watching out for new and interesting plants, mostly cheap ones, in the shops. There isn’t as much of a selection, but there has also been a lot of extremely cheap bulbs and tubers, I won’t complain, Dear Reader, I go with the ebb and flow of the garden and everything to do with it. I would like a few weeks of just sunshine, to shake out the Winter doldrums, I do see insects appearing so I feel it won’t be that far away. A little every day and a lot of photos, Dear Reader, which isn’t so bad. I’ll be back again soon, until then stay safe and take care.
I’d swear aubretia never came so soon.
Four random pieces of marble, two below, and they all fit into a gap where the block was perfectly. Oddly satisfying.
Lilies popping up.
Flowering currant is er, flowering.
Ancient rhubarb.
Old lilies.
The garden is so fragrant.
Ipheion…no idea how I remember. It was on sale by a lot when I bought it.
Usually tulips come a few weeks after daffodils.
If the clematis is dead because of frost the raspberry will take over and I refused to remove it now regardless.
Wondered why the scent was so strong here, almost missed these.
Champagne Rhubarb is getting stronger.
Simple, but so bright and cheerful.
That whole area is just thorny vines right now.
Flowering currant looking photogenic.
The Chinse Magnolia, hard to capture against so many other plants how many buds there are, not all flower, just the biggest.
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