Weather: This week starts with Easter Monday, but the weather switches back to a cold northerly.
Diane Rawnsley has some varied environments in her garden and they are all delivering fine plants
Lysichiton camtschatcensis just appearing in the bog. I finally have the time to really tackle this area which was an ungardened wilderness when we moved in 4 years ago
Beautiful pleated leaves of Veratrum
The trilliums are coming on, thanks in no small part to Carl Denton’s wonderful leafmould which he kindly gave me while mine is ‘brewing’
Daphne ‘Eternal Fragrance’ with Erysimum near my front door where I can appreciate the fragrance
Anemone nemorosa on the stream banks
Next is a view from the Kenny’s garden – Woodroydand some impressive plants
A fine view of Denby Dale viaduct from John and Joyce’s garden
Lysichiton americanus
Magnolia
Ann Fritchley has a handsome visitor in her garden, besides some very lovely plants
Long tailed tit by the window
Trillium kurabayashii
Lathyrus vernus
Fritillaria imperialis
Erythronium revolutum
Caltha palustris and C. palustris ‘Flore Pleno’
Berberis trigona ‘Orange King’
Arum creticum
Terry Benton is keen to grow flowers to attract bumble bees
This is a Buff tail bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queen feeding on brunnera macrophylla. After coming out of hibernation the first thing she needs to do is feed up to get her energy back before she starts to look for a nesting site.
Centaurea montana
Centaurea montana
Dwarf Comfrey
Dwarf Comfrey
Iberis sempervivum
Iberis sempervivum
Mahonia
Mahonia
Myosotis – white and blue
Viola labradorica and Myosotis
Viola labradorica
Maggie Sugden is next, with some early clematis, among others
Clematis alpina ‘Diamond Anniversary’
Clematis – ‘Frances Rivis’?
Iris pumila
Muscari armeniacum ‘Valerie Finnis’
Pulmonaria ‘Opal’
Tulip ‘Pretty Princess’
Ann Lowe is joining the Lockdowners, with her first contributions:
Ann’s garden
Ann’s garden, pond area
This camellia is about 30 years old – I brought it with me from Cambridge so the name is long gone. It got regularly eaten by the goat when she got out, but doesn’t seem any the worse for that!
And here’s Maggie Youdan’s latest:
Robbie West kindly gave me these Erythronium pagoda. Unknown narcissus seem to have appeared amongst them
Chaenomeles speciosa Yukigoten. Bought, if I remember correctly, from Daleside Nursery at Killinghall, three or four years ago.
Preston Harrison shows how his garden has come on since week one:
Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Dora Bielefeld’ looked over by Narcissus ‘Peeping Tom’
Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’
Pulmonaria augustifolia. Much underrated, very good for difficult places
Narcissus
Narcissus ‘King Alfred’
Narcissus lobularis. The native ‘Lent Lily’ naturalising in the woodland garden