Well, we hoped it wouldn’t be needed, but spring ’21 is here and lockdown is still a part of our lives!
Over the coming weeks,I hope you will enjoy sharing your garden pictures with fellow WYHPS members (and anyone else who wants to see them) until the day comes when we can visit each other’s gardens again.
Weather: Starts very warm, but turns cool for the Easter weekend
Brian Denison sends a good selection for his first contribution of 2021
Pulmonaria ‘Diana Clare’
Primula vulgaris
Primula ‘Tie Dye’ with Primula vulgaris
Persicaria microcephala ‘Red Dragon’ just emerging
Pachyphragma macrophyllum
Muscari armeniacum
Hellebore seedlings with Narcissus ‘Tête-à-tête’
Hacquetia epipactis
Pulmonaria ‘Opal’
Vinca minor ‘Illumination’ in flower
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Judith Ladley is guarding her precious Trillium this week
Trillium kurabayashii, complete with beer trap, purchased at our last Conference It’s my only trillium so deserves protecting
Tulipa turkestanica bought this week from York Gate nursery – they are now open on Thursdays and Fridays and have a good selection of bulbs for sale
Geranium ‘Spring Fling’ bought from Vanessa Cook many years ago
General view of hellebores – they are so beautiful
Ruth Baumberg has a very unusual primrose
Green Primrose
Bergenia ciliata
Helleborus viridis
Magnolia starting into bloom
Here’s Liz Hall’s first pictures of the new season, taken, she says, between the showers!
Primula elatior
Primula ‘Lady Greer’
Pulmonaria rubra
Erythronium
Erythronium
Early flowering Bergenia
Cardamine pentaphylla
Bergenia ‘Baby Doll’
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Diane Rawnsley’s first showing includes some impressive Hepaticasand a selection of Hellebores
Hepaticas
Helleborus ‘Flash Gordon’
Yellow helleborus
Hybrid hellebores
Synthyris missurica subsp. stellata
Stachyurus praecox
Hacquetia epipactis
Daffodils on the bank
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And there’s been a bit of sunshine in the Hackett garden this week – we don’t get much before the Equinox!
The Bloody Dock – Rumex sanguineus
Geranium palmatum
Ficaria verna ‘Brazen Hussy’ – no flowers yet
Allium paradoxum var. normale
Allium paradoxum var. normale – under the bird feeders, so enjoying regular guano feeds
Cardamine glanduligera ex ‘Washfield’. Bought from Michael Myers after a talk in 2019, I think
The cardoon, Cynara cardunculus
Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae, thriving in deep shade by the stream
Lysichiton americanus, the Skunk Cabbage, skulking in shade
