Post by rgsp on Apr 11, 2012 13:40:12 GMT
I had a wander round the garden with a camera this morning. Spring is definitely sproinging.
The clematis "Armandii" by the back door is just beginning to go over the top, but it's done well, and the wisteria it scrambles around with has very fat buds.
Honesty seeds itself all over the place, but it makes quite a nice show, and the old Rosemary bush is straggly but flowering like mad.
The berberis Darwinii is doing well, and so are the two geriatric chickens I suppose.
The flowering currant by the back stile is surrounded by other things and difficult to photograph, but deserves its photo all the same.
June berries aren't worth eating (even if they are edible) but the plant (Amelanchier Canadensis) is one of the most reliable for spectacular flower every year.
Mrs RGSP tells me these Erythroniums aren't very happy, but they look OK to me for the moment.
Yellow barked dogwoods do very well in our gardens, while the scarlet ones are always very unhappy. The yellow ones need cutting well back almost every year.
This little bit of flowering hedge has resulted in allowing various plum seedlings to grow, and cutting them all a couple of times a year with the hedge trimmer. Not a bad little hedge at all considering it wasn't planned or planted.
This is one of the emerging leaves from an ornamental (and tiny) horse chestnut, catchily named Aesculus Neglecta Erythroblastos.
It's a bit tender, and only colours well at the start and end of the year, and this one used to be planted where we hardly ever saw it.
It didn't much like being transplanted into a more prominent spot just before last year's drought, but it has survived, and looks like it may continue to do so.
This bed is our local version of a flowering jungle, and has continuous flower right round the year. The greenery is coming up fast at the moment.
I'm never quite sure how much I like this Osmanthus: it stays covered in flower like this for quite a long while, but somehow it never seems that attractive to me.
Whereas this is definitely one of my favourite signs of spring. It's sad that the first few asparagus spears are usually poorly flavoured and woody, but at least we know the good ones will be following behind very soon.
The clematis "Armandii" by the back door is just beginning to go over the top, but it's done well, and the wisteria it scrambles around with has very fat buds.
Honesty seeds itself all over the place, but it makes quite a nice show, and the old Rosemary bush is straggly but flowering like mad.
The berberis Darwinii is doing well, and so are the two geriatric chickens I suppose.
The flowering currant by the back stile is surrounded by other things and difficult to photograph, but deserves its photo all the same.
June berries aren't worth eating (even if they are edible) but the plant (Amelanchier Canadensis) is one of the most reliable for spectacular flower every year.
Mrs RGSP tells me these Erythroniums aren't very happy, but they look OK to me for the moment.
Yellow barked dogwoods do very well in our gardens, while the scarlet ones are always very unhappy. The yellow ones need cutting well back almost every year.
This little bit of flowering hedge has resulted in allowing various plum seedlings to grow, and cutting them all a couple of times a year with the hedge trimmer. Not a bad little hedge at all considering it wasn't planned or planted.
This is one of the emerging leaves from an ornamental (and tiny) horse chestnut, catchily named Aesculus Neglecta Erythroblastos.
It's a bit tender, and only colours well at the start and end of the year, and this one used to be planted where we hardly ever saw it.
It didn't much like being transplanted into a more prominent spot just before last year's drought, but it has survived, and looks like it may continue to do so.
This bed is our local version of a flowering jungle, and has continuous flower right round the year. The greenery is coming up fast at the moment.
I'm never quite sure how much I like this Osmanthus: it stays covered in flower like this for quite a long while, but somehow it never seems that attractive to me.
Whereas this is definitely one of my favourite signs of spring. It's sad that the first few asparagus spears are usually poorly flavoured and woody, but at least we know the good ones will be following behind very soon.
