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  • And very nice it is too WillDB, certainly the star in your garden right now.  I love the tulips, both Logan's and Nollie's look so exotic.  I have Red Riding Hood which are just plain red, tulips don't tend to last more than a year or two here, so I am loathe to spend too much on the bulbs.  Our Geranium Maderense has just come into flower.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Hello , I visited the Keukenhof Spring Gardens in Holland 🇳🇱 last week 
    Fabulous , I will try and download some pictures 
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Hi folks, great photos, loving all the spring bulbs.  Here are a few taken today in my garden.  Enjoy the wallflowers @Victoria Sponge .







    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • AlchemistAlchemist Posts: 273
    Thanks @Nollie and @Logan4. Not very often spring allows to take a photo lying so pleased. Your tulips look equally lovely. Mine are waiting to open any moment. Will post once open.  
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    @Yviestevie Your camellias are truly spectacular.
    Could you please tell me what the dark-leaved flowers are, in the first photo?
    And the wallflowers in the 3rd and 4th photos, I absolutely love those colours, what varieties are they? Are they long flowering?
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edhelka said:
    @Yviestevie Your camellias are truly spectacular.
    Could you please tell me what the dark-leaved flowers are, in the first photo?
    That caught my eye too and I had to look it up - it looks like Lunaria annua 'Chedglow', what a fantastic plant! 

    https://www.specialplants.net/shop/seeds/lunaria_annua_chedglow/
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Lovely pictures - I can’t believe all the colour about! My garden is intentionally full of greenery (I love foliage and shades of green) but I feel that it is particularly lacking colour and blooms this month. Roll on Rhododendron time! 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • AlchemistAlchemist Posts: 273
    edited April 2019
    @Yviestevie love your wall flowers 
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Thanks for your kind comments,

    Yes the dark flowers are Chedglow.  Once you get them going they self seed brilliantly and if you get too many they are really easy to pull up.

    The wallflowers are Erysimum Cheiri varieties Giant Pink and Sunset Dark Purple.  I think the seeds were bought from Chiltern.  They were sown in Sept 16 and planted out in April 17 so this is the third year they have flowered and so far seem to get better each year.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Those wallflowers are smashing @Yviestevie , thanks for the alert. I like those Chedglow too, I recognised them as a lunaria but I've never seen anything like them. Extraordinary colours!

    @Big Blue Sky that is a grand orange wallflower a few pages back, and lots of orange from @Alchemist too, great pictures all😀
    Wearside, England.
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