Yes, Wintersong. One of my FB friends filled me in that one and when I googled them I found lots of pics looking just like mine. They flower quite late in the season and are not too tall. I caught up on some correspondence in the rain this morning and took a trip out in all my rainwear to the post box but of course had to go up the garden too as I was already wet! The rain has opened up the blossom on my Cornus siberica alba which looks glorious and I came back down clutching a huge bundle of spent bluebells for the green wheeliebin. Takes an awful lot to stop my itchy gardening fingers but oh my they were cold when I at last desisted.
Good weather has come back again and forecast to last till Monday. I have lots of plants needing permanent homes so should be time for a good session. AGS final meeting of the session tonight so might find something for the raffle. But need to go to the shops as I have a friend coming to supper before the meeting. I shall have a nosey in all the lovely front gardens I pass to get to our high street.
I had a repeat order delivered today as my parcel went missing. In it was Garvinias of the Sweet Series which are hardy gerberas. They only came on the market last year so something of a new venture. I do hope they do not close up like my gazanias did when the sun went in last year! However they have come safely through the winter so perhaps the gerberas will too. Front gardens full of lovely blossom and looking very fresh after the rain.
Just back from the AGS meeting where we watched two lovely videos of Alpines in Focus in China and I won a lovely Coronilla in flower which scented my friend's car all the way home. She won a Bowles Mauve perennial wallflower which is a favourite with her. I lost my Coronilla last year so could not have been better.
Yes flumpy a great day for gardening again. I have a long list including putting my new coronilla in a bigger pot as its roots are bursting out of the one it is in. But no rain forecast all day and already 12 degrees so hope to get it all done. My friends at the AGS remarked how my tan showed I had been out in the sun a lot so perhaps A sunhat is called for now. No excuse I have three somewhere.
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Flumpy, the tulip you like is called Shirley
Yes, Wintersong. One of my FB friends filled me in that one and when I googled them I found lots of pics looking just like mine. They flower quite late in the season and are not too tall. I caught up on some correspondence in the rain this morning and took a trip out in all my rainwear to the post box but of course had to go up the garden too as I was already wet! The rain has opened up the blossom on my Cornus siberica alba which looks glorious and I came back down clutching a huge bundle of spent bluebells for the green wheeliebin. Takes an awful lot to stop my itchy gardening fingers but oh my they were cold when I at last desisted.
Good weather has come back again and forecast to last till Monday. I have lots of plants needing permanent homes so should be time for a good session. AGS final meeting of the session tonight so might find something for the raffle. But need to go to the shops as I have a friend coming to supper before the meeting. I shall have a nosey in all the lovely front gardens I pass to get to our high street.
I had a repeat order delivered today as my parcel went missing. In it was Garvinias of the Sweet Series which are hardy gerberas. They only came on the market last year so something of a new venture. I do hope they do not close up like my gazanias did when the sun went in last year! However they have come safely through the winter so perhaps the gerberas will too. Front gardens full of lovely blossom and looking very fresh after the rain.
Just back from the AGS meeting where we watched two lovely videos of Alpines in Focus in China and I won a lovely Coronilla in flower which scented my friend's car all the way home. She won a Bowles Mauve perennial wallflower which is a favourite with her. I lost my Coronilla last year so could not have been better.
Yes flumpy a great day for gardening again. I have a long list including putting my new coronilla in a bigger pot as its roots are bursting out of the one it is in. But no rain forecast all day and already 12 degrees so hope to get it all done. My friends at the AGS remarked how my tan showed I had been out in the sun a lot so perhaps A sunhat is called for now. No excuse I have three somewhere.
My new coronilla.