April is such a wonderful time of year with new growth bursting forth everywhere. Trees are beginning to look green once more and everything in the garden is waking up and showing new leaves. Even evergreens are showing new growth in a different colour from the old leaves. Once again, it is time on the 22nd of the month to celebrate the importance of leaves with GBFD. thanks to Christina.
Acer Sango Kaku
This is my only Acer showing its leaves as yet, my others are still in tight bud.
Libertia peregrinans.
Having said that even evergreens show new growth of a different colour, this Libertia stays the same 12 months of the year!
New growth on Rosa Shropshire Lad.
Cornus alba sibirica Westonbirt.
This Cornus was grown from a hardwood cutting and is in a pot and didn’t get coppiced last month. The problem is that it has rooted when it is. I will have to cut the roots to move it and plant it in the woodland – soon! The new growth looks stunning against the red stems when the sun is shining through the leaves.
The climber Actinidia kolomikta (cousin of the Kiwi Fruit) is starting to show its coloured variegation, it will get much better than this over the next few weeks.
Heuchera and Milium effusum Aureum are contrasting with Narcissus foliage.
Amalanchier lamarckii’s new copper coloured foliage glowing in the early morning sunshine.
New growth on Spirea japonica Goldflame.
New growth on my tree that is a cross between an oak and a copper beech.
Just the plain ordinary montbretia, but with the sun shining through the leaves they turn into something special.
Lovely new foliage on Sambucus Black Lace.
Philadelphus coronarius Aurius now bursting into leaf.
Old snowdrop foliage making a nice contrast with the new foliage of a peony.
Sticky buds on one of the Horse Chestnut trees are opening now. We have to watch where we walk so we don’t walk the sticky bits into the house!
After having bare branches on the ancient trees for the last 5 months, it is lovely to see them greening up once more.
You can appreciate the size of the trees compared to the 6ft 6ins archway underneath, soon all this will be green and hiding us from the world once more!
The side of the ditch is looking rather green at the moment.
The woodland is also wearing a cloak of green which will increase as the days go by.
Thank you Christina for encouraging us to get out and look at our foliage, do pay her a visit at My Hesperides Garden to see foliage from around the world.
Good luck with transplanting the cornus. It is the best time of the year for new growth appearing everywhere.
The garden is changing every day Alain, and the green is appearing not just in the garden, but along the hedges and trees at the side of the roads, a wonderful time of year.
Your trees are enormous Pauline. So I understand what you meant in your comment to my post about not needing any more shade in your garden; I like how the arch is a link between the border and the height of the trees. You’ve made me realise that I’ve lost my Libertia peregrinans, it survived and even clumped up quite well but I think last year’s extreme temperatures have finished it! Your last view of the path into the wood is so inviting. Your contribution to this meme is always very much appreciated, thank you.
They are rather tall trees Christina, I had to learn to love all the shade they cast when we moved here! What a shame you lost your Libertia, it is such a lovely colour and I thought it could survive anything.
Hi Pauline,
Your garden is beautiful this time of year. It really is a fun gardening time….looking, everyday, to see the progress as something different breaks the ground and watching for
the first buds of the season.
I’m looking forward to seeing the progress over the weeks.
Thanks Sally. It is a wonderful time of year, I always feel that there are times about now that I would like to shout “stop” as I feel everything is changing so fast!
The image emphasizing the height of the trees reveals how lovely your garden is. Wonderful to welcome back the green after winter.
The trees are very old Susie and have preservation orders on them, so no-one can cut them down, thank goodness. They certainly made the garden look mature when I started all the planting. It is lovely to see the garden turning green again after all the bare branches of winter.
It is such a delight to see everything greening up. You do have some lovely trees sheltering your garden. I love to see the candles on the Horse Chestnut, one of my favourite sights of spring.
The squirrels seem to like the candles on the Horse Chestnuts as much as you do Wendy, I’ve seen them peeling them like a banana, then tucking in to a nice meal! It was the huge old trees that attracted us to the house in the first place when we bought it 25 yrs ago, never thinking how important the woodland would become to me later on.
I noticed the same about the montbretia leaves, they really glow with the sun behind them. Mixed feelings about the leafing up of the canopy here.. it means I lose part of the garden again, it all looks so much lighter and bigger in winter.
Yes Jessica, even the most ordinary of plants can sometimes look quite magical. At least with the leaves all coming on the trees, the huge house built next door is disappearing once more, thank goodness, I felt so exposed in the veggie garden!
I always think trees have much to give in making a beautiful garden and now I can add one more function to my list……. hiding us from the world once more! What a lovely concept. Enjoyed all your garden leaves photos Pauline.
I love the old trees we inherited with the house Denise. It was winter when we moved here, so I didn’t realise how private we would be once spring came and we decided we loved it and look forward to it each year!
It’s a truly amazing time of the year. Every day something new blooms or comes out of hiding. In my own garden I like the increase in privacy that the new foliage on shrubs and trees lend…although our trees are not quite as splendid as yours in height. I love the colour of your spirea!
Spring is such a wonderful time of year Hayley, so full of promise for the year to come. Each day shows something new to be photographed, another little treasure that has survived the winter!
What a charming celebration of spring growth, you’ve captured the translucent quality of the new leaves of the crocosmia and spirea beautifully. I like the idea of hiding the garden from view, the mature woodland trees certainly give your garden a wonderful air of seclusion.
In the summer Kate, it is just the aeroplanes that can see us! I like to think of the garden as a private place just for us and the wildlife, but occasionally others are invited in to share it with us. I love it when the sunlight shines through leaves and petals, they look so beautiful and it adds an extra dimension to the garden.
I remember you showing what great oaks you have in the back but I forgot how majestic they really are. Beautiful!
You’ve really captured the feeling of spring with all your new foliage. The heuchera looks very happy and I hope I can do the same with mine, they were replanted next week and I felt completely ashamed of the poor quality of the soil they had been growing in.
The oaks and ash are really tall Frank, the horse chestnuts not quite so tall, they sometimes make me feel quite insignificant, they have been here for so long. Some of my Heucheras have needed replanting as they have risen up out of the soil, but hopefully they will be ok, I hope yours will be too.
Oh it is all so lovely, isn’t it Pauline? I just can’t get enough of it here and am having lots of extra rambles round the garden. Hope the ground is dry enough for you to do the same. Love the Libertia – that will go on my Wish List for next year!
I love this time of year Cathy, something new to excite me each day! Yes, the ground has dried out enough to wander round, but the soil is still very wet when I do any weeding.
In Porterville we had two 30 year old (then almost 40 once we left) ash trees.
This garden has a carob tree, which was somewhat rearranged in yesterday’s fierce wind!
Mere babes Diana compared to ours which are over 200 yrs old! I don’t know how much longer we will have our Ash trees, there is a disease spreading from Europe which is killing off all the ash trees, already thousands in this country have died, I just keep hoping that maybe ours will be lucky and escape.
I love the fresh green leaves in April.
It is such a beautiful shade of green isn’t it Jason, I don’t think anything beats it!
This time of year when the garden is reborn is magical, and I love all the fresh foliage in your garden. Everything looks marvelous! I especially like how young foliage looks with the light shining through. The Actinidia kolomikta is new to me; it is gorgeous! Does it produce fruit?
Magical is just the word for it Deb, especially when the sun is shining, you can’t beat it!
The Actinidia will also change from white to pink eventually, it has beautiful foliage. It has lots of tiny white flowers, but unfortunately no fruit, even though it is a relative of the kiwi fruit.
Isn’t it heavenly to see the new tender growth, and you have such a varied, delightful selection. Just loved seeing all these.xxx
Thanks Dina. The difference in the garden in the last week is simply amazing, it seems to have gone from winter to spring almost overnight. The different colours of the foliage always takes me by surprise at this time of year.
A wonderful time of year. Not only our gardens greening up but a real pleasure walking or driving anywhere right now. The fresh green growth is at its best, especially the Hawthorn.
Great pics Pauline, good luck with that Cornus. I hope the roots aren’t too awkward
It really is a wonderful time of year Angie and the lanes are greening up nicely here too, the birdsong is amazing and there are new flowers and foliage to photograph every day. I’m still looking at the cornus in its pot, it will get moved eventually, but more important is the weeding and tidying that still needs doing!