April 6 to April 13
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 contributor for this week
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 hitters are 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
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!
Kate van Heel’s sunny garden always seems weeks ahead of ours – tadpoles? We only got frogspawn yesterday!
If you’ve read Sue Gray’s excellent blog, you’ll know all about her Amelanchier, featured here in all its glory
Here are two reliable spring blooms from Terry Benton in Wiltshire. The hardest thing about Bowles’s Mauve is spelling the name..
