l Had a walk round with camera this morning and welcomed back these old friends of many years after their winters rest.
My garden has old friends returning too Syd. It's always nice to see that they've survived winter and are eager to grow again.
Hi Kitty,Eileen. Old friends indeed and its really another happy aspect of gardening in that they are really good friends and given an even break all round its a friendship for life - can't be bad. Syd.
Great pictures and so much to look forward to. We are way behind you but we have some nice weather coming up next week. I am just hoping all of the frost ends soon. Of course we could get snow into June but it melts right away. I remember one year we had snow on our camper awning in June ....also hail that late. Just looked again at the photos, are those wild violets I see? small purple flowers? They look like the ones I brought from our last home in a wooded area. I love them but they spread so fast and I keep an eye on them so they don't overtake an area. I also brought some of those trilliums with me. Those are very slow in spreading here.
Hi Sherry. Glad you like the pics and for sure your Spring will come so you have much to look forward to. Delighted that you noticed the little wild Wood Violets - sent pics of them recently ( A Good Show). A lovely little plant and occasionally they produce a white flower or two. You will see them in several of my pics at present because although as you say they spread rapidly I find they are easily controlled if need be and so allow them a more or less free hand - love to see their pretty heads popping up here and there all over the plot. I look closely at them in the hope I may see one day a double flower appear on one/some - I read this can happen. Syd.
Your old friends look great. They are starting just in time for this beautiful weather we are having!
Hi Netty - Riccur. Its always such a delight and a pleasure each early Spring to see them re-appear - I find that herbaceous perennials generally are more or less totally reliable and only the more finicky ones which sometimes give cause for alarm - even loss. I have been keeping a garden of my own going now since 1957 and it has given me immeasurable joy over all the years - seeing the old friends reappear being one of the greatest. Syd.
More old friends. The lovely Lithodora diffusa Heavenly Blue just starting flowering, Luzula now with its brown "grass" flowers, Kirengeshoma palmata, White Dicentra now up to 20 inches high and first flowers, Mr. Bowles Golden Grass ( Millium effusum aureum) - another real splash of gold - this plant seeds about in its true colour so they are easily replaced say every second season by gathering up a bunch of them - I have a clump of Liriope with its dark green strap foliage and one of its seeds found its way into the middle of it - they now grow together - it looks great with its yellow foliage mingling in with the dark green - another example of Ma Natures handiwork. The variegated green/white, green/yellow Hostas are absolutely romping away but as always the blues/greens/ variegations of are just showing - have one tiny Hosta called Pandoras Box which is less than 3 inches high - that also is doing well. More friends later. Syd.
Hi Kitty. Thank you - its always a real treat to see them. These pics hopefully are interesting but also to those not as yet really familiar with the different plants it may help them to remember the shapes/names and learn for the future. Smilacina racemosa - much like Solomons Seal but perfumed flowers at stalk ends, Hosta var, Hemerocallis var, Hosta var, Aruncus ( Goatsbeard), Tradescantia with yellow foliage - normally green, Geranium var, Peony var, Hakenochloa macra aurea.
