The Garden in March

 

Things are happening in the garden at last. Especially after the freezing temperatures in the early part of the month when we even had a dusting of snow.

 I posted about the Viburum tinus at the end of February and it still looks wonderful in the top photo. The daffodils this year have been great and there are more and more bulbs yet to flower. The grass had it's first cut on Friday and the bare patches are beginning to repair.

The forsythia is usually a big disappointment and no change this year. For a start it should not be grown in a border that has good soil and too much nitrogen. Older shrubs do not produce many flowers, ours is well over twenty years old. There is also little sunlight in the garden for the previous four months so that is another reason.

The laurels at the far end are a mass of flowers.

Here is the Corylus Contorta with some nice catkins and lots of buds.

Some other bulbs are now in flower.

Even the Delphinium Pacific Giant has sprouted. The first of the main perennials in the main border.

At the end of the month, all the hyacinths are now in flower.

he large hypericum at the end of this border has been pruned and should soon be in leaf.

Those daffodils are a great display.

The main border is coming into life. This morning I found a lupin that I thought was lost but is now in leaf. Along the fence, I pruned the beesianum jasmine and tied back the honeysuckle which, against the odds, is coming into leaf. Then later, I spread three bags of compost and planted ten gladioli bulbs.

At the front, there are some unusual bulbs that I cannot remember planting. we will have to wait until next month to see what they are.

I also spread the last bag of compost on the bedding border as I am advised this will keep the moisture in the ground while waiting for the end of May.

And finally, in a bare patch at the beginning of the long border, I replanted some cornflowers then raked the soil to sow some Poppy and Corncockle seeds. We shall see if anything grows.