Weather: Spring is back! The wind has switched to a sweet southerly and is blowing warm, mostly sunny skies our way.
Maggie Youdan is our first contributorfor this week
Ficaria (lesser celandine) ‘Brazen Hussy’ with Narcissus ‘W.P. Milner’
Amelanchier canadensis
Magnolia stellata
Narcissus ‘Quail’
Narcissus ‘Thalia’
Judith Ladley offers some fine plants we haven’t seen so far this spring. and a statue glowing in the sunshine
Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Forest Flame’ – rather gaudy but I think it will calm down later
Lunaria annua ‘Chedglow’. (I am very partial to dark-leaved plants)
A corner of my garden where I grow ferns. I know not everyone likes statues but I have had this lady for a number of years and am fond of her.
Asarina procumbens – a pretty little member of the antirrhinum family. This specimen has over-wintered in my greenhouse but it does self-seed gently in my garden
Euphorbia amygdaloides ”Frosted Flame’ (what a difference a week makes)
Hacquetia epipactis ‘Thor’. A nice little plant but I wish it would get bigger!
Lathyrus vernus, pink form, growing underneath a self-seeded Geranium palmatum
Carine has found that the idea of virtual garden visiting is catching on. This BBC link shows that the big hittersare getting in on the act! We thought of it first – of course..
Tuesday morning’s sunshine brought out the best in these new blooms for your editor, Brian Hackett
Epimedium x rubrum
Dicentra ‘Luxuriant’
Tulip ‘Ollioules’ – beautiful, reliable, unpronounceable. Named after a village in Provence
Tulip ‘Ollioules’ – we bought these from Jill Evans some years ago and they still keep their looks
Carine Carson’s long anticipated lasagne tulip bowl has bloomed, but someone has blundered! Instead of the pink tulips she ordered, something else has been supplied. She says “My tulips,which I believed to be a strong pink, are lemon and a very untulip like shape. It might be some time before I’m attempting a lasagne again! They look better on close up but hardly make you think tulip!
Lemon lasagne anyone?
Tulips that think they are dahlias?
The Wrong Tulips – a case for Wallace and Grommit?
Tulips behaving under the cloud
Kate van Heel’s sunny garden always seems weeks ahead of ours – tadpoles? We only got frogspawn yesterday!
My heron keeping an eye on the tadpoles in the pond
Yellow tulips that come up every year with no TLC from me!
Pulsatilla ‘Rose Belle’ getting ready to flower for Easter
Hosta ‘Paradise Island’ with beautiful yellow leaves
If you’ve read Sue Gray’s excellent blog, you’ll know all about her Amelanchier, featured here in all its glory
Amelanchier lamarckii – as mentioned in Sue’s blog!
Clematis alpina ‘Stolwijk Gold’
Primula ‘Wanda Tomato Red’
Emerging foliage of ‘Molly the Witch’, hellebores, Erythronium ‘White Beauty’? Primula denticulata – much darker purple in reality
Leucojum aestivum – the ‘Summer Snowflake’
Here are two reliable spring blooms from Terry Benton in Wiltshire. The hardest thing about Bowles’s Mauve is spelling the name..