April 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[fermi de Sousa]

Viola stojanowii. It blooms almost all summer, despite our 38c heat.

Tremendous, Robert! Maybe it'll survive our 43^oC summers!
I'll be on the look out for seeds!
cheers
fermi

[fixpix]

I really fancy your "little" garden Cliff.
Something I also hope one day to create.

[Mike Ireland]

Images from the past few days … all taken in our small front garden here in Lancashire.

Cliff, fantastic plants & photos.
Wonderful white pulsatilla.

Mike

[ranunculus]

Many thanks folks.

[Tim Ingram]

Cliff - your postman must dwawdle outside the front door given that lovely planting. There is a lot to be said for a smaller garden! (says he in from weeding ready for another open day this weekend). We have a small bed outside our front door which has never really been planted properly and it would be good to convert it into an alpine bed - a project for next year. At the moment the nursery is filing with alpines and small perennials so we look forward to any local gardeners keen to make such a planting.

A favourite plant on the sand bed at the moment - Lithodora oleifolia.

[ranunculus]

Many thanks, Tim.  I must say that the garden doesn't look this good very often … this has been an exceptionally mild spring.

[hadacekf]

Cliff, fantastic plants  and perfect photos.
I think you love your plants.

[David Nicholson]

Cliff, lovely garden and troughs and great collection of images.

Is the little Aquilegia in Pic 12 A. saximontana by any chance?

[ranunculus]

Cliff, fantastic plants  and perfect photos.
I think you love your plants.

Many thanks, Franz … to be honest I think I love your plants as well.   

[ranunculus]

Thank you so much, Mr. N.

The dwarf aquilegia was a £1.50p unlabelled bargain buy (reduced to £1) from our local garden centre.  I could have been born in Yorkshire - apart from the stigma. 

[David Nicholson]

I could have been born in Yorkshire - apart from the stigma. 

    You've got to have the birthright mate, you've just got to have the birthright!

[David Nicholson]

A few not very rare items from the garden but pretty just the same.

Aethionema 'Warley Rose' Absolutely stonkingly good value and will flower it's socks off all Summer.
An unnamed Arabis, also great value
Soldanella villosa, obviously happy as it's beginning to be a bit of a thug.

[Maggi Young]

The dwarf aquilegia was a £1.50p unlabelled bargain buy (reduced to £1) from our local garden centre.  I could have been born in Yorkshire - apart from the stigma. 

 A bargain ? At only one third off the price?  Tell me you're kidding....... that barely qualifies as a reduction at all in my book!

[ranunculus]

A bargain ? At only one third off the price?  Tell me you're kidding....... that barely qualifies as a reduction at all in my book!

It might if you had grown it, Maggi?   

[Maggi Young]

It might if you had grown it, Maggi?   

Very true, it looks worth a good fiver now!  Two-tone  flowers are very pretty.