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  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290

    I hope Nora manages to sort something out for those of us with poor Internet. I still can't see many of the photos.

    Now I'll see if I can post any, they are all under 2MB. Signs of spring at last, but rain is forecast yet again for most of next week.


    Very nice pictures :-) Please tell me what the purple flower-carpet in the bottom-left corner of picture 3 is? I like it so much, would love to have it my garden. Thanks.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    I think I can see 4 petals so likely aubretia, Eustace.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444
    My magnolia and cherry this time last year.
    the magnolia has already flowered and dropped most of its flowers
     
    And the cherry blossom was out.

    Todays photo shows plenty of flower buds but none fully open and no blossom on the cherry at all yet.


    The best years are if they flower together. The backdrop of bright pink for the magnolia is one of my favourite spring sights.
    but again not going to happen this year.

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Magnolia will be stunning when the flowers open Sunny.
    SW Scotland
  • As you can see, I am a naturalist gardener!
    Here's a photo from last year of a delphinium, a firethorn bush (to the right - just sprung up there!), a wild rose trained, over the rainbow!, from next door (shh!) and in the background is my lawn meadow.
    A 'weed' is just a plant in the wrong place - subjective! ;)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Hyacinth 'Woodstock' 


    Narcissus 'Sailboat'





    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    No pics Dove....
    SW Scotland
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    They are there now. :)
    love the purple/blue of the hyacinth.
    SW Scotland
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2018
    Oh good.  They're the same size as I've posted before and no one seemed to have a problem so hopefully that was a blip.

    They are a fantastic colour aren't they?  Sarah Raven describes them as the colour of beetroot ... I think they're more the colour of pickled red cabbage  B)

    It's the first time I've grown N. Sailboat ... I'm very pleased with them, they're so elegant. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Eustace, Bob is right, it's aubretia, it seeds itself all over the terrace in gaps between the stones.

    I can see all the pictures today, after a little wait, lovely, wild flower's arrived first.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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