My Cornus canadensis has finally bedded in to the groundcover mix under hamamelis etc on a shady bank, with ajuga, violets, and wild strawberries. Hardly room for a weed.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
This is from a few days ago. I have lots of plants at the end of my garden but sadly the shade from the tree hides them.
Its a slow process to get the garden how i want it because the shady areas are so tricky! But we loved the tree when we first viewed the house so it will stay.
Getting there with the sunnier side on my new border. Sunflowers (black magic), verbena bonariensis, salvia nachtvlinder and 3 different dahlias need to sow some hardy annuals now!
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Thanks Perki if its the ones below they are Tulips Tres Chic a Lily type, and Eyecatcher a Viridiflora type
Last edited: 07 May 2017 15:28:18
@JamesO,
I do like the combination of those white and red tulips, very elegant indeed!
Here's my contribution to the current May flowering in my garden.
Tulipa x 'Finola' (an improvement of the well-known 'Angelique' variety). Enormous flowers!
Polygala myrtifolia (Yes, I know it will not survive the winter, but it is certainly a showy plant)
Rhododendron x 'Pink Pearl' with young Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium' in the foreground.
A lot of things in our garden are quite new so not a huge amount of stupendous things to look at yet, but I do love the acers.
Last edited: 08 May 2017 07:46:15
Really looking smart there gdan
You have so many tulips James - looks really glorious in the sun
I have a little Columbine which is flowering just now - a dwarf, white one which will go in my long border
The dicentra is , at last, starting to perform. It got damaged by a r***y cat earlier in the year
and these have reappeared - white Dutch Iris. I'll cut them for the house with the last of the narcissus
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi glasgowdan! Your acers are indeed beautiful.
Fairy, lovely white dicentra. Mine got broken by the wind... is the upturned hanging basket a protection from the cats?
Lovely soft colours.
I meant to ask, what colour is the carnation?
My Cornus canadensis has finally bedded in to the groundcover mix under hamamelis etc on a shady bank, with ajuga, violets, and wild strawberries. Hardly room for a weed.
This is from a few days ago. I have lots of plants at the end of my garden but sadly the shade from the tree hides them.
Its a slow process to get the garden how i want it because the shady areas are so tricky! But we loved the tree when we first viewed the house so it will stay.
Getting there with the sunnier side on my new border. Sunflowers (black magic), verbena bonariensis, salvia nachtvlinder and 3 different dahlias
need to sow some hardy annuals now!