Lockdown Gallery 21- week 9

April 26th to May 2nd

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: High pressure is still with us and the dry, cool weather goes on

Ann Fritchley send these pictures, but wonders what we’ll do when the lockdown ends! I’m sure we’ll think of something…

Narcissus ‘Tresamble’ – stays beautifully white
Clematis ‘Octopus’. An early
Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’. Purchased from Sainsbury’s in April 1982. A good doer!!
Tulipa humilis. This little tulip is doing well and coming up all over. Good job I read it through. My iPod had called it ‘humility’

Maggie Sugden offers a great display of Tulips this week

Tulipa ‘Shirley’
Tulipa ‘Tres Chic’
Tulipa ‘La Belle Epoch’
Tulipa ‘Purple Doll’
The ‘brighten up shade’ collection – Gavota, World Friendship, Tres Chic, Golden Apeldoorn
Clematis macropetala
Veratrum album emerging

Amanda Fincham has some questions about her plants this week

Coronilla glauca ‘Citrina’, but the leaves are badly yellowing – can anyone help?
Prostrate rosemary with darker blue flower , any name suggestions?
Magnolia stellata, still going strong
The single bud on my seed raised tree peony, slugs ate the bud last year, fingers crossed it survives

Judith Edmonds’ plants are attracting plenty of bees

Bumblebees seem to enjoy rhododendrons – I think this is a common carder bee
Narcissus ‘White Lady’
Astrantia major ‘Sunningdale Variegated’ with golden marjoram
Amelanchier – a good sized specimen died from honey fungus about 5 years ago and the roots were dug out – however a little bit must have hung on under the wall as it has sprung back to life!

Sue Gray has a classic selection of spring flowers to show – a tribute to the generosity of friends

Small Trillium kindly given to me by Carl Denton a few years ago, but sadly the label is long gone
Pulsatilla vulgaris ‘Papageno’ given to me by a friend who didn’t like it, but I do!
Jeffersonia diphylla, the most ephemeral of flowers, but I am very proud of this plant grown from collected seed
Epimedium x rubrum – Yes, I know I should have cut back the leaves before it started flowering, but I so enjoy the foliage that sometimes I never get round to it!
Beautiful emerging foliage of Podophyllum versipelle ‘Spotty Dotty’ – another generous gift from a friend
Unknown Tulip – it would not have been my choice, but I inherited it with the garden over 20 years ago!