Lockdown Gallery – week 4 | Hardy Plant Society

April 13 to April 19

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 – Woodroyd and some impressive plants

Ann Fritchley has a handsome visitor in her garden, besides some very lovely plants

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

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.