Garden in mid and late April

 

The maypole cherry is colourful at this time of year. Unlike the flower border where even the late flowering daffodils and tulips are nearly over.

The clematis montana is at it's best, but unfortunately a whole mass fell off the wall a month ago. I have fixed a wire at it's highest level and encouraged some stems to find their way there.

I'm quite pleased with these hostas (fire and ice) that I replanted. For the moment, not a snail in sight.

The same goes for these at the side of the house. Snails apparently do not like dry, sunny conditions.

These are the same hostas that were actually a blue colour a few years ago as in the photo below. See post 11th August 2021. I have a label which says they were Hosta tardiana 'Hadspen Blue'. Except for using Pl@ntNet, they are called Hosta sieboldiana. It seems there is a crossover between the two.

A couple of weeks later, and is it my imagination, or has the green in the top photo now become a little bluer? For some reason, I have never seen the hostas so healthy.

The yellow flower I now find is a Welsh poppy or Papaver cambricum.

Next door in the main border is the Muscari or grape hyacinth.

Further along is the Camassia leichtlinii 'Caerulea' that I once thought was a weed.

Also in flower is the dwarf crab apple.

In the conservatory I planted this areca palm – Dypsis lutescens. What I really wanted was a bougainvillaea, but it was not available locally.

I won some garden stuff in a raffle, and these are seed bombs.

The instructions said just to throw them on the soil. We shall see.

Last of all, the Wallflowers' "Sugar Rush Mix" is hanging on. They do prefer it by a wall.

Coming to the end of April, these late-flowering Narcissus poeticus brighten up the far round bed. I couldn't find the label, so thank goodness for PlantNet.

At the front, the photinia red robin has lots of flowers.

Last week I managed to jet-wash the side and rear pavings. For some reason, they seem better than the last few years. It must be the days of prolonged sunshine that helped.

The last day of April and the Iris next to the conservatory is well into flower.

Even the large geranium has a couple of flowers.