The terrace garden starts to bloom 23/04/11
Emerging wild ferns and sweet woodruff flowers - great groundcover at the base of a large oak 25/04/11
The beautiful Rhododendron 'Naomi' flowers for the first time with us 25/04/11
- Bluebells, Rhododendron and White Honesty 22/04/11
Meconopsis grandis in full flow 24/04/11
- Camassia leitchtlinii and Narcissus ‘Jenny’
- A woodland view on 20/04/11
- Another lovely flower from a shady spot – Epimedium rubrum 23/4/11
- A beautiful natural mix of colour and form in the early flowering woodland pea Lathyrus vernus
- Purple Bugle takes up the baton as the best Bumblebee nectar flower, just as Pulmonaria longifolia is finishing
Male Orange-tip butterfly on Aubrieta flowers
Aubrieta is a wonderful nectar plant for many insects like this Bee Fly
- Bugle, Golden Marjoram and Mossy Saxifrage – a favourite combination
Early morning light on the front terrace, with colour at last becoming obvious 14/04/11
Spring morning mist can be just as lovely, though less frequent than those in the autumn 16/04/11
- At last found a location for growing the beautiful Erythronium californicum successfully, in moist soil shaded by our large oak tree 16/04/11
Magnolia stellata and Rhododendron Dora Amateis 16/04/11
At its peak now, Amelanchier canadensis, wonderful blossom and early leaf colours 17/04/11
Mossy saxifrage and Labradorian VioletGradually re-working the longhouse border 16/04/11
Tulipa 'Little Beauty' and Tulipa 'Peppermint Stick'... second year's flowers
Narcissus Jenny.... A lovely later daffodil which clearly has some attraction to bumblebees
- Oxalis oregana f.smalliana
Tulipa 'Flaming Purissima' - second year's flowering in plunged, slate mulched pots 4/04/11
Dwarf Rhododendron Ginny Gee
A reliable floriferous April flowering Rhododendron Dora Amateis
- Pulmonaria and Hellebores still providing lots of flowers
- Narcissus ‘Pipit’ . Strongly scented and reliable with us in containers
Stunning scent from many spring flowering Viburnum, like burkwoodii....after moving it for the third time!
Narcissus Thalia ... a perfect timed follow on from the shorter Topolino
Bee Flies enjoy Pulmonaria flowers for nectar just as much as bumblebees
- Worth waiting for the flowers to open. T.’Little Beauty’
- Lily of the Valley, Cardamine trifolia, Galanthus nivalis and Hellebore hybridus 4/04/11
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