Flowering now April 2007

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I can see why this is your favourite L. Tweedyi Derek !
You don't seem to allow any foliage....
Great plant !

[johngennard]

A few pictures taken in the garden in the last few days.

    Malus floribunda taken 3 days apart.I missed it in it's red bud stage.
    Frits.beneath Prunus sargentii and acers.
    Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Gem'
    Trillium albidum
    Ttrillium Kurayabashi

[Maggi Young]

Lovely pictures, John! The sunlight shining through the Trillium kurabyashi flowers is so dramatic!
Just wait till Ian sees your fritillary meadow... he'll be so jealous. What a delight to see, has it taken long to establish? What a wonderful garden to create and enjoy!

[Ian Y]

Your fritillaria meadow is a stunning sight John. I am deeply envious it must be wonderful to just stand and watch them dancing in the breeze. The other plants are also wonderful you have a superb garden thank you for sharing it with us.

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

Great photographs or should I say great garden well photographed?

Malus floribunda is a particular favourite of mine but the planting of frittilaria is outstanding, something rarely seen and so to be appreciated all the more.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

Here are few of mine at present



R Loderi King George and a close up
Trillium grandiflorum
Narcissus jonquilla
Trillium simile
Rhododendron Prim. Doksa looks better in the ground than in a pot here
Trillium grand. roseum
Shortia sold. var magna
Lewisia hybrid

Rhodo curlew and razorbill

[Olga Bondareva]

How beautiful are your gardens! Our spring is just started with:

Trollius patulus

http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1356770/49841785/#mainImageLink


Primula sonchifolia

http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1199602/49841756/#mainImageLink



And saxifrags
   

[David Nicholson]

Great pictures Olga and lovely plants. Thanks for sharing them

[Kenneth K]

The flowers in south west Sweden is a little later than in Britain. Some exemples of what is flowering right now.
1. A greek violet, Viola schariensis
2. Shortia uniflora, just out today. It has been waiting some time now for warmer weather.
3. Jeffersonia dubia. Picture taken some days ago. Now it's beginning to fade.
4. A small bush, Corylopsis sinensis var calvescens. (Used to be C platypetala). Soon the beautiful leaves will complete the picture.

[johngennard]

Thanks for the compliments eveyone,it is a pleasure to share the garden with you all.I started the garden from an absolutely bare plot forty-two years ago and am still developing it.
I planted 100 frits.originally about thirty years ago and evey year since I have collected the seed and scatter sown it in the following January.A slow process but well worth the effort.
Here are some images that I forgot to include last night.

      Cercis sinensis 'Avondale'
      Myosotidium hortensia(Chatham Island Forget-me not)
      Prunus 'Ukon'(the nearest to yellow prunus)
         

     

[Paddy Tobin]

Olga, Ian, Kenneth & John,

A great display of plants.  Many thanks.

My pick of the bunch, so to speak: Olga's trollius, Ian's shortia, Kenneth's shortian and John's cercis. All so very very desirable.

John, with the cultivar name 'Avondale' I thought that your cercis might have an Irish connection but I have just looked at a book on plants with Irish connection and find no reference to it, nor in the Hillier's Manual. Can you tell me anything about it - besides  the fact that it is a beautiful tree, of course.

Paddy

[johngennard]

Paddy,
I have just checked Hilliers and it is listed in there.Apparently it is a New Zealand selection.I came accross it three years ago in a local garden centre and could'nt resist it,but then again I can't resist plants full stop.

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

I am obviously showing the age of my copy of Hilliers and consequently my own.

It looks like a wonderful plant.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

Here is one I forgot to post not a plant but a general view at the bottom of the garden which gives a feeling to me of what is the best time of the year

The acer is A palmatum atro superbum with a japonicum aureum just coming into foliage. The skunk cabbage has bee seeding itself and is gring in just 4" of mud over the concrete base of the pool

[Maggi Young]

Charming, Ian. No garden is complete without water, is it?