Having missed a few Bloom Days due to being really busy in the garden getting everything ready for the snowdrop season, I can now take a breath and take a general view of the whole garden and realise that half is looking rather nice and half still has a long way to go. I will show you the better half!
Thank goodness Derek, the gardener, was able to cut the grass and do the edges before I took my photos!
The little woodland in the distance is where most of the work has taken place, but now I’m working hard on the rockery.
My old faithful Camellia Donation is still flowering, this is its 5th month, not bad!
Another younger camellia nearby.
Narcissus Jet Fire and creamy Sailboat are brightening up a dark corner.
Lots of hellebores are still flowering, this one is on the rockery.
Primula sibthorpii, also flowering on the rockery, a lovely lilac flowered species. The primula family is a wonderful family, so much variety in shape and colour and also which conditions they prefer to live in.
Same colour but totally different, Primula denticulata, the drumstick primula.
Cyclamen coum on the rockery.
Scilla sibirica on the alpine scree which is tucked into the rockery, seedlings jump over the little wall and spread far and wide!
Into the woodland and growing on the bank at the side of the ditch is Corydalis solida and its seedlings.
Corydalis Beth Evans with lots of Narcissus pseudonarcissus in the woodland proper.
More Narcissus.
The fritillaries have started!
A colourful little corner which a few weeks ago was a splash of white, now it has all colours vying for attention.
What I call snowdrop hill at the end by the old school is now covered with an assortment of colourful flowers, and there are lots more little treasures to come. With it being a slope the drainage is better here for woodland ephemerals.
Corydalis solida George Baker at the far side of the woodland among all the snowdrops.
Pulmonarias are open everywhere for any passing bee, although I think they have plenty of choice for their pollen and nectar. Can you see all the long thin leaves sprouting up, hopefully they are my seedling narcissus which will flower in years to come.
Cardamine forming ground cover in a corner of the woodland.
Brunnera Alexander’s Great, still in the woodland.
Daphne bholua still perfuming the woodland.
Before we leave the woodland I should show you the last of the snowdrops flowering here, this is Baxendale’s Late, but he looks a bit thin, I don’t think he likes the cold wind!
And my very last one is Polar Bear, he should be used to the cold! So that’s it for snowdrops, just another 9 months to wait for it all to start over again! The snowdrops have been amazing this year, they put on a wonderful virtual display for the village ladies. Specials seemed to come a bit early but the wildings stayed resolutely to their normal time. I have a one or two clumps that now need dividing, so will get those done soon.
On the way round to the front drive, I have to pass my Chaenomeles hedge which has been flowering since the end of November, fantastic plant.
Camellia Margaret Davis trying to hide the gas tank, she is doing a good job!
Primroses have now taken over from the snowdrops in between the red stemmed Cornus.
Hellebore with the toning foliage of Peony mlokosewitschii behind.
I’ll finish with another long view across the garden from the woodland.
I hope you enjoyed your wander with me, one day I’ll show you the other half of the garden, but a lot of work needs doing first to tidy it up!
Many thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting this, do please pay her a visit to see other flowers from around the world.
What a lovely garden. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you Dorothy, nice to hear from you.
So many pretty flowers heralding in spring! I love your woodland best.
Hello Lisa, the woodland is my favourite part of the garden at the moment. Spring is certianly with us here in the UK, hope it stays that way for a bit.
It is looking gorgeous! I’m amazed at how much you have in bloom. That primula is such a lovely shade of blue. Lovely seeing the first fritillaries.xxx
I wish I had a pause button Dina, everything is coming too quickly. I would like it to slow down and let me catch up, but then it is the same every year, I should be used to it by now! It won’t be long before I do a special post about the fritillaries, more flowers are coming each day.x
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As always a pleasure to wonder around with you Pauline 😄 Your woodland garden gets better and better with each passing year!
Thanks Anna, I feel it has come on a lot this year and is now beginning to look how I imagined it all those years ago!
Oh it was so lovely to see all these, Pauline – so much to enjoy and admire, and well done for all the work you have done while your gardening chappie has been absent! Your camellia and chaenomeles have been amazing in terms of their bloom longevity. Here, my fritillaries are in bud so I am watching for the first ones opening
It’s thanks to the lockdown that all the work has been done Cathy, staying at home and not seeing anyone has meant that I’ve been out everyday working in the garden, hopefully it won’t happen again! What would we do without our old faithfuls, they have been amazing! Fritillaries are coming on nicely, lots of flowers now open, I feel another post coming on.
Everything is so beautiful and well cared for! I can’t imagine that there’s another half still in need of attention.
Spring has certainly arrived and the daffodils are really shining. I hope you can really enjoy the next few weeks with some wonderful weather. It’s that time and no better place to be than in the garden 🙂
Thank you Frank, so kind! The other half has had the dead stuff cut down but no weeding done yet, I have that to face. We are having a dry spell at the moment but with cold winds from the north and east but we can safely say that Spring has arrived!