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
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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!
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, but a little less cold, with fewer night frosts
Maggie Youdan says she is rather fond of tulips – it’s easy to see why…
Tulipa ‘Brown Sugar’
Arabis ferdinandi-coburgi ‘Old Gold’
Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Yukigoten’
Ficaria verna ‘Brazen Hussy’
Magnolia stellata before the frost got it
Narcissus ‘Segovia’ at different stages of flowering
Tulipa ‘Persian Pearl’ in the gravel at York Gate
Tulipa ‘Purissima’
Two black metal birds perched on my shed from a company called METALBOX
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Denise Dyson offers a nice selection of spring flowers, though she had to battle a very insistent (and very wrong) spellchecker to send the namesto match
Primula glomerata
Primula ‘Belarina’ – a cutting from Corine
Collection of auricula
Clematis alpina scrambling up variegated Euonymous on the opposite boundary from my machete-wielding neighbour
A clump of primroses
More from Maggie Sugden – her garden is nothing if not prolific!
Erythronium ‘Pagoda’
Leucojum
Narcissus ‘Pipit’
Primula ‘Garryade Guinevere’
Amanda Fincham has a handsome purple iris for you to name
Always the first dwarf iris to flower, can anyone name it?
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
Viola ‘Corsica’
A close up of Tulipa ‘Spring Break’
Tulipa ‘Spring Break’ can also be called ‘Spryng Break’
Primula polyanthus ‘Jack in the Green’
Primula polyanthus ‘Dark Rosaleen’
Primula polyanthus ‘Cowichan Cross’
Hose in Hose Primrose ‘Mount Juliet’
Double Aubrieta
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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
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And Ann Fritchley has a Bergenia for you to identify
Trillium kurabayashii
Pachyphragma macrocarpa
Fritillaria meleagris – White
Fritillaria imperialis minus vine weevil
Erythronium tuolumnense and Fritillarias
Erythronium revolutum
Caltha palustris and Anemone ranunculoides
Bergenia – anybody know which one?
Scadoxus – a houseplant
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Ruth Baumberg’s great primrosessurely prove that spring is here – even if the weather doesn’t
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: An icy Arctic blast greets Easter Monday, and the temperature takes a while to recoverthrough the week
Kate van Heel has a glorious Trillium in flower, plus a heron playing the good guy – unlike the ones that visit our garden…
Trillium chloropetalum ‘Album’ ( I think) rather than Trillium albidum
Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’ with Millium effusum ‘Aureum’ and Ficaria verna ‘Brazen Hussy’
Ipheion ‘Alberto Castillo’
Camellia ‘Silver Wedding’
The heron keeping an eye on the tadpoles
There’s so much going on in Maggie Sugden’s garden, despite the weather
Omphalodes cappadocica
Primula vulgaris sibthorpii
Primula vulgaris sibthorpii – alba
Viola ‘Molly Sanderson’
Viola ‘Martin’
Trillium chloropetalum rubra
The ubiquitous Magnolia stellata
Scilla sibirica
Scilla, I think!
Pulmonaria ‘Opal’
Pulmonaria ‘Cool Cotton’ I think – I’ve lost the label!
Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’
Narcissus ‘Minnow’
Brunnera macrophylla ‘Dawson’s White’
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I think this is Glenda Wray’s first contribution to the Gallery – very impressive!
Primula ‘Wanda’ series
Primula ‘Snowmound’ – likes pots better here
Primula clarkei
Helleborus ‘Anna’s Red’
Dicentra cucullaria
Corydalis solida subsp. ‘George Baker’
Close-up of the dwarf cherry
Spring bulbs
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Amanda Fincham has a very seasonal Pasque flower for us – and I hope that Apricot is under cover during this frosty week!
