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What's in flower in your garden right now?

Garden noobGarden noob Posts: 260
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What's in flower in your garden right now? ...or maybe 2 weeks ago because my North-facing garden is a bit behind.

My garden feels like it's stuck in a rut at the moment, lacking any real colour. The Spring bulbs were lovely, and I enjoyed the cherry blossom, but everything else is a bit leafy at the moment. I'm not sure if it's partly because of the strange Spring this year.

Our native bluebells are looking good, and a rhododendron is partially in flower. A small bleeding heart is flowering, and a geranium phaeum is flowering too. But that's about it.

Everything else is full of promise, but delivering little at the moment! I'd like to address the balance next year if anyone has suggestions?
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The Garden Gallery is looking fab. Lots of inspiration there.

    My forgetmenots are just going over, but the tulips are in full flood. Aquiligia is just coming out and montana. Group two clems just about to pop and my first roses. My silverfox foxgloves are budding and my bumble salvias have just started. Exciting times.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    edited May 2018
    You can get lots of colour from Brunnera 'Jack Frost'.  It's so easy to propagate too.. for a shadier moist position.
    For dry soil in full sun, little Erysimum 'Golden Jubilee' with Iberis 'Snowflake' look nice at the moment I think..




    or ready made annuals like this Nemesia 'Easter Bonnet'..

    East Anglia, England
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    I'm going to invest in some Pulmonaria Blue Ensign - unspotted and great for shade about now. The hellebores are still going strong.
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    For the last few years I had very little spring colour.   Last Autumn I planted wallflowers and they have put on a great show of early colour and the bees love them too.  I would post a pic but can't for some reason. 
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    I have a beautiful azalea in flower, montana, berberis, calendula, tulips, anemone and apple blossom and the first aquilegia are opening.  :)
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    So much further ahead of mine you lot! I have
    Forsythia
    The end of the Daffs
    Celendine.
    Plums
    Cherries

    Bluebells and aquilegas no where near flowering yet
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Most of my spring bulbs are over now, apart from Dutch irises and the odd anenome blanda hanging on
    Roses Warm Welcome and Lady of Shallot, others all budding nicely.
    Salvias Greggi in an explosion of red, Carradona
    Helianthumum Ben Heckla
    Lots of shrubs like Cytisus Lena, Teucrium Fruiticans, Berberis red and orange rockets
    Echinacea Summer Colours just budding...

    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • autumngloryautumnglory Posts: 255
    We have lots with buds about to open so it should be lovely in a week or so! 

    The daffs and forsythia are still out but going over. The dicentra was probably the first thing to flower this year. We have blossom on the amelanchier obelisk and wallflowers. The pulmonaria still has flowers.

    We have 3 clematis, 2 patio type and a Montana about to open. Aquilegia, tiarella and lily of the valley should be out soon as they have buds! Can't wait!
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    For some reason daff Thalia in a pot is still full of flowers while the ones in the border were over a couple of weeks ago. Grape hyacinths in a pot going over. Magnolia stellata ditto... Amelanchier still looking nice, albeit slightly windswept. Geum in flower but that was bought in flower three weeks ago. Bowles mauve have just started. Lilacs, although very sick, are trying and Magnolia 'Susan' is still going strong. Lots of flower buds on pyracantha and rowan and the Clematis 'Avalanche' on the patio is looking amazing :)
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited May 2018
    I've got quite a few late narcissi - the multi-headed ones and some of the fancy frilly types are still in full fig at the moment. The Pheasant Eye ones aren't even beginning to think about flowering yet - probably a couple of weeks yet.
    Some primulas - drumheads and cowslips (and crosses) are going over. The native primroses and gaudy primulas are still going strong. Bluebells are just beginning to uncurl the stems but not yet blooming.
    Muscari are still around but going past their best. Leucojum are also past the peak but still flowering. Sweet cicely is just coming into flower.
    The Magnolia is flowering strongly. The camelia is going over. One azalea - the deciduous one - is just hitting it's peak (late this year), the evergreen one still has tightly furled buds. My rhododendron is also still in bud.
    Euphorbias - the ones that survived the cold winds - are flowering strongly. Cytisus are starting to bloom. Pulmonaria are going over here. Brunnera are flowering madly, later hellebores are still lovely. Pulsatilla are in flower - they are not really established yet but doing well for babies.
    Erysimums are just coming out, as are the annual wallflowers. Honesty is in full flower. The vincas have been flowering for weeks. Aubretia is glorious. Saxifrage are peaking. Rosemary is as well.
    And tulips are the stars of the show right now. I don't have many and only in pots apart from two 'Lady Jane' which I love and which have come up for 4 years now- a record for me. One Tulipa Tarda has also escaped the rodents for one more year.

    It's quite colourful out there, albeit much later than last year - at least 3 weeks for most things.

    ETA forgot the amelanchier- still in flower here.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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