Well spring has hit with a vengeance and the garden has rushed into colour with a headlong speed that makes me slightly nervous. What if we have a late frost or a whistling wind...
Although to be honest the main issue so far seems to have been that of keeping up with the watering, and we've only had a week of good weather!
With all this abandoned and wanton blooming I thought I should do a round up of what's giving it's all.
Big and blowsy Cherry blossom
Delicate and speckly Pear blossom, my little tree is absolutely covered.
My favourite Tulip of this year - Tulip viridiflora Virichic
Starry white Olearia phlogopappa (I know, what a name for a lovely little shrub!)
It's doing really well in my new raised bed.
Rich and sumptuous Wallflowers
Euphorbia wulfenii statuesque and stately but not doing as well as I'd like.
I think its position is too dry.
Choisia Sundance, heavily scented in the sunlight.
My favourite of the Daffodils - Pipit, delicate and fragrant.
Silvery Brunnera Jack Frost.
Creeping and lush Lamium maculatum or Dead Nettle.
Happy red Cowslips relegated from a relatives garden for not being 'true'.
Muscari latifolium, new this year and tall and elegant, much more successful than the paler Muscari azureum which hasn't shown much at all. Are they more difficult to grow or have I just been unlucky?
Forget-me-nots - they may be common and spread wherever you don't want them, but they are gorgeous and huge favourite of mine.
Which all adds up to a lot of lovely colour (not all of it planned) and mostly without much help from me!
What's doing well in your garden?
