Flowering now April 2007

[ian mcenery]

Your'e not wrong Maggi

[Anthony Darby]

How long did you have to wait for the fish to jump out of the water Ian?

[Paddy Tobin]

Lovely view, Ian.

Great shot of the fish jumping.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Oh, the fish is JUMPING? I thought the poor thing was high and dry from too low a water level on account of the lack of rain!

[ranunculus]

....And there was I thinking it was singing for Anzac Day....I should know my plaice!

[Maggi Young]

I should know my plaice!

So you should, Cliff.. and anyway, it is clearly a carp.

[Anthony Darby]

Oh ....... carp

[David Nicholson]

A couple of pictures of a minor (very!) triumph. After years of loosing Clematis plants in the garden to wilt I gave up and tried one in a pot instead. Here is Clematis 'Nelly Moser' (I like 'em big and blousy!!)

The structure on the right hand side of picture 2 is my home built shelving for over-summering my Primulas and Auriculas. It weighs an absolute ton because I don't do joints and every piece of wood is screwed to 'tother with angle plates etc.

[Maggi Young]

 I have only two Camellias in the garden: This is the luscious C. 'Anticipation'


This is at the east side of the house, where neighbours are building a huge extension right up to the boundary line....YUCK     Luckily the Forsythia, (which I notice has been looking really good wherever I see it this year) will serve as a distraction, if not a screen... it looks bright with the camellia


My other camellia is along from the double pink, it is the very charming C. 'Margaret Davies1 ( or Davis ?)
A very neat double white with a sweet pink/red picotee


I'd appreciate  it now if you do NOT remind me that I don't care for double flowers!

[Maggi Young]

My houseworking skills are often called into question, usually by myself, so here is a shot to prove that my whites are whiter than white

Betula jacquemontii

[mark smyth]

I peeled mine on Monday evening. Currently it is a lovely shade of pinky brown that will bleach as soon as the sun comes back

[johngennard]

That's a lovely combination Maggie.Is it a scilla at the base ? Incidentally,I jet-wash all of my birches but none of them look like yours.I think you must have been around the DULUX.

[Maggi Young]

Is it a scilla at the base

Now, I deliberately didn't mention what the little blue and white bulbs are at the base of the birch, because I have terrible trouble differentiating the squilly things, and at the time of posting, I couldn't remember their name! Just been out ofr a look to see if inspiration strikes.....it is a Chionodoxa, a form of Chionodoxa forbesii I believe . It's from Turkey, home of so many good bulbs.

As to the white birch, I scrub it with an old window brush and some soapy water, then rinse down. I have used a jet wash on some other trees that were a bit green and scruffy... brings 'em up a treat!

[ian mcenery]

Sorry you lot only just caught up with the fish thing.  By the way the fish's position is known to fishermen as tail walking.

Anthony as I am a flyfisherman I cast a fly and made him rise.
Carpe diem as they say

[hadacekf]

A few pictures of Gentiana taken in the rock garden in the last few days.
Gentiana-acaulis
Gentiana-acaulis
Gentiana-angustifolia 'Iceberg'
Gentiana-angustifolia 'Iceberg'
Gentiana-verna-garden
Gentiana-acaulis-white
Gentiana clusii Violett