April 12th to April 18th
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: Continuing dry and cold
Liz Hall leads off this week with a nice variety of spring flowers
Maggie Sugden is back again with yet more from her garden – and a question for you…
Can anyone identify this bulb for me? 
Primula bought from Jackie Giles 
Primula denticulata 
Narcissus ‘W. P. Milne’ 
Muscari armeniacum ‘Valerie Finnis’ – I bought this when I visited her. Many many years ago!! It has since moved house twice. 
Just Tulips 
Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’ 
Fritillaria imperialis. This has taken three years to flower – we gardeners have to be patient, but I think it has been worth it. 
A tulip that comes back each year, but I’ve lost the label 
Bergenia
And Ann Fritchley has a Bergenia for you to identify
Ruth Baumberg’s great primroses surely prove that spring is here – even if the weather doesn’t
Welcome to Judith Edmonds, with her first contribution of the year!
Camellia williamsii ‘St Ewe’ which has been in flower since early March 
Un-named rhododendron, the earliest of mine to flower. Has been in the garden since the 1930s! 
Un-named daffodils, in the garden when we moved here. Very pretty, reliable flowerer, and sturdy too 
A buff tailed bumble bee enjoying Pulmonaria ‘Diana Clare’
Sue Gray’s contribution seem very appropriate, as we all shiver in the cold
‘What a difference a day makes’! 
Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ – topical if nothing else! 
Corydalis solida subsp. solida ‘White Knight’ 
A crop of green fairy castles have appeared. I think they are seedlings from Podophyllum hexandrum 
Erythronium ‘Pagoda’ 
Erythronium hendersonii 
Lathyrus vernus 
Sanguinaria canadensis f. multiplex ‘Plena’ 
Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ flowering much better now, accompanied by foliage, than it did on the bare branches
