Don't know why I didn't move that watering can and yes, that is a massive telly but I just loved coming down to this the other morning. Spring is wonderful!
Gosh Dove/nut - that lemon is beautiful. What a joy!
Not much blooming here as I've dug out or cut back most of the old Spring things to make a change for next year. Just a few plants dotted about here and there with loads of perennials just beginning to re-appear with loads of annual seeds coming up as well in the gaps
Ranunculus Brazen Hussy - is at the exposed end of a little rockery patch and they come up every Spring and go down just before summer starts.. Tough as old boots here.
Last of the Bergenia Bressingham White
Erysimum Muurbloem x hybrida Red Jeps (Wallflower)
Honesty have popped up here and there.
Primula sieboldii 'Alba' - have a few of these which are lovely small plants but they have never spread at all after 4 years so I need to work on that.
The cowslips are growing underneath my wisteria in very poor dry sandy soil. I don't know where they came from but they are lovely They are gently seeding themselves, one is several metres away in my Alpine bed.
At present enough sun is getting through to them to keep them going. I think they will be over before the wisteria really starts blooming and the leaves take over. It looks as if they might co-exist quite happily.
"The Book" said "Ensure your soil is loamy and has a ph of between 6.5 and 7.5 as Cowslip is a weakly alkaline soil loving plant. "
Yes right! Tell my cowslips they are flourishing the wrong soil.
I like the red one Slum - we also have an area of the lawn where primroses have naturalized, with a few of the pink primulas that you have also growing alongside them, violets and the inevitable moss and ivy too - I am sure it is a lawn, but there appears to be less grass and more "other" things growing in among the grass each year!
I love the Cowslips Iamweedy - I would love them to grow in our lawn too.
I also have a patch of non-mown lawn and it's covered with Primroses in Spring. Like Guernsey Donkey2, mine is mainly non-grass! I might actually leave it completely un-cut this year and see what happens... may be a fine line between unkempt and natural??! It will never be a 'good' lawn as very shaded and next to and under trees, but I haven't dug it over mainly because of the lovely Primroses.
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I think I would buy a house on the basis of it having a wisteria like Obelisks.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Looks gorgeous Cloggie
the scent of the wisteria when you open the doors lovely
Molly the Witch's first flower ... ever! Thank you Nut
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gosh Dove/nut - that lemon is beautiful. What a joy!
Not much blooming here as I've dug out or cut back most of the old Spring things to make a change for next year. Just a few plants dotted about here and there with loads of perennials just beginning to re-appear with loads of annual seeds coming up as well in the gaps
Ranunculus Brazen Hussy - is at the exposed end of a little rockery patch and they come up every Spring and go down just before summer starts.. Tough as old boots here.
Last of the Bergenia Bressingham White
Erysimum Muurbloem x hybrida Red Jeps (Wallflower)
Honesty have popped up here and there.
Primula sieboldii 'Alba' - have a few of these which are lovely small plants but they have never spread at all after 4 years so I need to work on that.
Geum 'Flames of Passion' which I love.
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The cowslips are growing underneath my wisteria in very poor dry sandy soil. I don't know where they came from but they are lovely They are gently seeding themselves, one is several metres away in my Alpine bed.
At present enough sun is getting through to them to keep them going. I think they will be over before the wisteria really starts blooming and the leaves take over. It looks as if they might co-exist quite happily.
"The Book" said "Ensure your soil is loamy and has a ph of between 6.5 and 7.5 as Cowslip is a weakly alkaline soil loving plant. "
Yes right! Tell my cowslips they are flourishing the wrong soil.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
I leave an area of grass unmown until mid/late summer. Flowers like these are starting to establish.
I like the red one Slum - we also have an area of the lawn where primroses have naturalized, with a few of the pink primulas that you have also growing alongside them, violets and the inevitable moss and ivy too - I am sure it is a lawn, but there appears to be less grass and more "other" things growing in among the grass each year!
I love the Cowslips Iamweedy - I would love them to grow in our lawn too.
I also have a patch of non-mown lawn and it's covered with Primroses in Spring. Like Guernsey Donkey2, mine is mainly non-grass! I might actually leave it completely un-cut this year and see what happens... may be a fine line between unkempt and natural??! It will never be a 'good' lawn as very shaded and next to and under trees, but I haven't dug it over mainly because of the lovely Primroses.
Yes, and don't you just love it like that - I certainly do and so do the birds.