End of Month View

This should really be called the ‘ Beginning of the Month View ’ as I am so late with joining in with Helen ’s popular meme this calendar month . I have been away this week , enjoying gale and torrential rain in Liverpool rather than here at dwelling . Apologies to the web log I have not managed to keep up with .

Anyway , I am back now and thrill with what has come out in my absence . I love these dim plant . Magnolia‘Black Tulip ’ is n’t really black at all , but it has really dark flowers . This bud will spread out into a adorable , waterlily- regulate efflorescence . Euphorbia‘Blackbird ’ has beautiful black foliage and the Celandine ‘ Brazen Hussy ’ which was found by Christopher Lloyd has very black parting .

The bed on the other side is come on too , I have got rid of all the nettles and other tripe . ThePhormiumisPhormium tenax‘Rainbow Queen ’ which I bribe because it was half price and I ca n’t resist a bargain and the color is just right . Last hebdomad I boughtPrunus serrula‘Branklyn ’ from the rattling Beeches Nursery near Saffron Walden . There it is on the right . When it is ripe it will have beautiful , shiny , cinnamon - coloured bark . There are so many rarities at this greenhouse that I did corrupt one or two other flora but I will show them to you another time . Looking back towards the orchard the Narcissus pseudonarcissus are out . I bid my harbinger here had had the foresight and good taste to plant all the same daffodils ; these are all different people of color and they all come in out at dissimilar times . If I had the vitality I would dig them all up and replace them withNarcissus pseudonarcissus , like the ones Ellen Willmott grew at Warley Place . ( See my last post for photograph . ) .

Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ seedlings

The next photo is the view seem down the garden from the other side of the newly- cut hedge . you’re able to actually see through into the other part of the garden now . The lovely bark belong to to the walnut Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree which the squirrels have sex so much that they never leave us a individual walnut tree . you could see the tops of the wooden vegetable boxful that the Pianist build for me last year . I have been busy there too and I will show you what I have been doing in another post . In front of the Camellia there are expectant lump ofAnemone blanda‘White Splendour ’ growing with the delicate whiteNarcissus‘Thalia ’ and the white periwinkle ‘ Gertrude Jekyll ’ . I quash invasive winkle like the plague , but this niggling low - growing one looks sweet weaving in and out of the plants here . At the front is a little white Grape Hyacinth .

Elsewhere in the garden there are plentitude of Spring treasures appearing . The forked hellebore is one I buy from Elizabeth Strangman ’s tremendous baby’s room , Washfield , many years ago . She was one of the first hellebore stock breeder to produce doubles . The sky - blueAnemone blandaseed around everywhere .

In fact , there is plenty of sky- blue around now .

Magnolia ‘Black Tulip

Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ seedlings

Brunnera macrophylla ‘ Jack Frost ’ seedlings

The hellebores are still go substantial , they have been flowering for weeks . The large rose is ‘ Canary Bird ’ which is a very early one and should be in bloom after this month . The ruff you could see round the tree in the lawn , Acer drummondii , are the leaf of the winter aconites which have finished flowering now .

Yellow is the people of color of Spring and particularly daffodils .

Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’

Narcissus cyclamineus ‘ Jetfire ’

I grow the little hoop - underskirt daffodil in pots so that I can enjoy them faithful to . Christopher Lloyd naturalised these small hoarded wealth in the lawn but I prefer to keep them in pot . They are so ticklish .

Narcissus bulbocodicum

Ranunculus ficaria ‘Brazen Hussy’

Other jaundiced treasures are the string of pale yellow beads on the shrub , Stachyurus praecoxand the yellow Crown Imperial , Fritillaria imperialis‘Lutea ’ which always blooms before the cherry-red and orange ones in my garden .

Do visit Helen at ThePatientgardener‘s blog to see other End of Month Views . And give thanks you , Helen for host . I will examine to be on time next month .

61 Responses toEnd of Month View

I love primrose of all kinds , so no sneering here . The carpeting of wild ones is very pretty .

What makes a primula vulgar ? I be intimate primrose and hellebore and can only wish I had displays of both like yours in my garden . But then , I also wish the mixing of daffodil so different stroke for unlike folks as the saying goes . I ’m passing impressed by the progress of your winter garden – I would n’t have expected to see so much color from it already .

Your garden is looking quite beautiful ! The newly created beds are fill in very well . Your diligent attending to your piece of Eden is an inspiration !

oddly enough we swap the gale and torrential rain of Liverpool for a span of days in Cumbria this week Chloris – if anything the weather was even sorry up there . I hope that you enjoyed your time up in this neck of the forest . As usual your garden yield an abundance of treasures 🙂 You must feel encouraged by the way of life your fresh Seeing your ‘ Brazen Hussy ’ has got me to wondering where mine has melt to .

What a beautiful End of Month View , Chloris . I ’m just catching up on some position I missed , too . Got a little behind before and during the vacation as we host the bigger family this twelvemonth . have it off all your gorgeous blooms , especially the sky dingy anemones ! But really , everything looks great ! Your hard piece of work has compensate off . 🙂