Garden in mid 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.

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. See previous post for a better photo.

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.