Its been damp with fog or low cloud and the garden is dripping. For maybe fancier flowers and great turns of phrase, you will need to go over to Jim's where we all hang out. Its Birthday Cake time here, but I expect to still have time late tonight to see what others have posted, or else at leisure tomorrow.
Here are my six...
Everything is rather shoehorned into the garden, and for the size of the garden I think I may have reached capacity. I've even moved some plants for fear they may have been growing over the top of some snowdrops!
Galanthus Godfrey Owen is looking 'champion' up by the seating area.
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| Galanthus Godfrey Owen |
Having started my quest to grow some nice snowdrops soon after moving to this garden, I was glad to receive some from friends and also buy at the Snowdrop Fairs in the locality and also on garden visits. Sadly many of my labels have either been moved, have disappeared or the writing has faded beyond recognition, and I am having to try to sort through my notes and my blog to seek clues as to their names. Godfrey Owen however is easily recognised!
2. I had put some of the parsley seedlings in a spare pot, where I also had planted a flowering Lathyrus latifolius 'White Pearl'. To support the white pearl I had in my normal fashion used some 'sticks' which I had recently made when I was pruning back the pink flowering Phlomis pupurea 'Matagallo'.
To my surprise more than half the sticks used are sprouting new plants from under the soil. I know my friend Maggie was very keen to acquire a plant of this, and I will be potting them up during early March.
3. Although the coums are starting up in flower, I wanted to add just a small selection of the foliage of Cyclamen hederifolium. They give such a variety of patterning and great foliage all through the winter months.
5. Another shrubby Phlomis that has proved itself in the garden is Phlomis bourgaei. It is just starting to form shoots that look as it they will bear flowers.
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| Phlomis bourgaei |
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| Phlomis russeliana seed heads |
The snowdrops are very pretty, and I especially like the cyclamen foliage - what a variety of leaves!
ReplyDeleteHelen I appreciate your comments, are you tempted to grow cyclamen? If you are in the UK, it is easy to grow them from seed or small corms. Let me know if you would like some seed when they mature in the summer time.
DeleteLovely snowdrops! Mine are just beginning to show a nose. The cyclamen foliage is beautiful. Have a good week x
ReplyDeleteThanks Sis, such variety of foliage to cover the soil in the winter I just love them.
DeleteI love the various foliage examples. Not much foliage here. If I cleaned the garden, there would be nothing, and the seed heads are nice with frost and snow.
ReplyDeleteI notice the tips of the leaves of my snowdrops that are just coming. Congrats for yours !
ReplyDeleteNice diversity of cyclamen leaves. Love them all
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DeleteThanks Fred, they are super early varieties which I am showing, though in general I would say the bulbs are earlier this year.
DeleteHappy Birthday! The accidental Phlomis cuttings made me chuckle.
ReplyDeleteHi Graeme, thanks and I have had a smashing day, and the cuttings were such a surprise to me too.
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