Slug and weed control have been put on the back burner, but the woodland garden is doing its thing without any help from me. Here is what's popping at this time. ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) Love this bed of hellebores ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) Trillium ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) Heathers and hellebores waiting for the hyathin and almonds to bloom ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) Azalea ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )
After cleaning the house I sat down and logged in here. Imagine my delight when I saw all the beautiful flowering plants you have. I really love your white Bleeding Heart and those hellebores are gorgeous!!
They all look so healthy and beautiful. It would be difficult to stay indoors when those beauties are in bloom.
I am happy, happy, happy that you have these blooms to show off. It has made my day. Thank you very much. Love all your flowers. Wish you would have had labeled all of them....
Thanks all. It is beginning to be that time of year. Unfortunately April showers are keeping me under cover and indoors. Was hoping for at least a nice walk but alas. Didn't want to put on full rain gear. Maybe tomorrow. Barb, I will try to label, so here you go. They are all very common plants easily found most places and so old-fashioned many are out of favor and considered weeds 1 primrose Bellerina cream, an old variety resurrected and put back on the market a few years ago thanks to cloning 2 bleeding hearts alba (white) 3 pigsqueak inter planted with Pacific bleeding hearts (native here and spreads) 4 hellebores a plenty (purchased doubles and self sewn single ones) 5 I should remember at least the common name but don't (got several more plants at a trade last fall) 6 Van Dion daffodils, one of my favs, an oldie (dates back to the 1600s) but goodie 7 Pacific bleeding hearts (native here and spreads all over my yard) with blooms. Also called fern leaf bleeding heart 8 pacific trillium, another native. This is my mother plant, but divided her last year and have several others now in the woodland garden. She doesn't even look smaller 9 front yard heathers and hellebores. In another week or so the pink flowering almond bushes (look like sticks and another very old fashioned plant) and wild/Spanish hyathins (look like weedy grass) will be in bloom for a lot more blues and pinks 10 one of my favorite self sewn hellebores in th front yard 11 a 45 year old azalea I got from a neighbor 30 years ago. It has been moved so many times, kept in pots and replanted again. Still it blooms away every spring with beautiful small lavender flowers covering it. 12 grape hyathins, like the wood/Spanish hyathins a weed popping up everywhere, even right through patio bricks and asphalt but I love them Living in the rainforest so these are the spring reliables despite slugs
What a beautiful selection of plants and flowers you have No.5 looks like Pulmonaria .I'm sure I have pulled this up thinking it was a weed when we first moved into this house
Jewell--Thank you so much for your photos! I love that first one, the primrose. Beautiful thing. I also really enjoyed your hellebores! They are amazing. But....the photo I most enjoyed was 'Heathers and hellebores waiting for the hyathinth and almonds to bloom'. Nice to see a short of your garden.
Spectacular! And all with no help from you? I can't imagine how beautiful it would be there IF you gave them a hand! :-D
Frank, glad you appreciate the labeling. I was thinking of ten other things while uploading pictures so forgot Kiasmum, right on! Good ID. Some people consider them weeds but I like all early blooms. I especially like the way the flowers go from purple to pink. Carolyn and CM, those primroses are one of my favs. They actually divide fairly easily later in the spring. I am glad they were reintroduced. Would love to see them in the other colors. CM, the front yard with ferns, heather, hellebores, Oregon grape, bulbs and flowering almonds has been one of my easiest areas to maintain. If plants are planted close enough together and like our wet 3 seasons and dry cool summer they seem to be self sufficient. I don't even water this area Do have to give it a good weeding once a year. Thanks Netty Cherylad, I am blessed with a temperate climate and good soil. A can't fail combination...if the slugs don't eat it.
