Today is a mix of sun and showers, April showers have arrived at last. Everywhere is looking so green, so many different shades for us to enjoy as all the trees are bursting into leaf, such a beautiful time of year. Time for SOS again, so off we go with this weeks offerings………..
Viburnum bodnantense Dawn
Viburnum bodnantense Dawn is still flowering, it started before last Christmas and as long as it isn’t freezing, it carries on, lots of lovely new flowers at the moment.
Prunus glandulosa alba plena.
My little shrub by the pergola at the top of the garden is now in full flower and looking very pretty with its tiny bobble flowers. My pink one is a little behind but should be flowering by next weekend.
Dicentra spectabilis alba
At the very top of the garden I am making a new shady area and this Dicentra spectabilis alba is one of the first plants that I have planted here, it seems to like it!
Acer Osakazuki
Acer Osakazuki is now in full leaf as well as being decorated with hundreds of tiny red flowers, the colour of the leaves in autumn. I have sown some seed in the past and now have a seedling growing in the new shady area where the Dicentra is, hope it turns out to be as colourful as its parent.
Double Primrose “Jack in the Green” form.
This double primrose is a “Jack in the Green” form, can you see the extra leaves that are formed behind the flower from the calyx.
Double Primrose.
A purple double primrose planted in the shade of some of the rocks on the rockery, it seems very happy and is increasing nicely.
Those are my six for this week, more flowers , more leaves and more deadheading now! Everything is racing away but I know I’ll catch up eventually. Do pop over to Jim at Garden Ruminations to see other plants from around the world.
Haha, somehow I clicked first on last week’s post! Anyway – the delicate pink of the viburnum is lovely. The white bleeding heart reminds me of my grandmother who favored white flowers, thou her garden was a riot of color. She always had to “have a white one”. Always loved them.
I have so much shade here Elizabeth, white flowers show up so well.
A lovely couple of double primroses. I have a very pale cream variety someone from work gave me 20 years or so ago but I may have to look into others. Nice to the white Dicentra. My white Diving Turtles plant has yet to make an appearance.
Thank you Graeme, do you split yours regularly, I’ve read that you have to split double ones every few years? I think maybe my purple one is ready for splitting.
That’s my favourite acer, the autumn colour is so amazing and it looks lovely now too. I love your primroses and that pretty white prunus.
Mine too Liz, you can’t beat the autumn colour. I always look forward to the little prunus, love the tiny bobble flowers.
Love the primroses and the Dicentra spectabilis alba. When it sets seed, it is worth planting them straight away, they go on to make flowering plants within a couple of seasons, as I found out. It is easiest to sow them straight in the garden somewhere shaded.
Thanks for the tips about the Dicentra seed Noelle, will make sure I follow your advice!
White bleeding hearts, just as unique as pinks , may be slightly less floriferous, but they are less common. This double primrose is magnificent.
Glad you like the Dicentra Fred, it looks lovely in the shade.
Lovely! Dicentra spectabilis is a favorite. We have both the white and the pink here–I love them both. The color of that pink/lilace Double Primrose is luscious. Made me smile with its beauty. Thank you.
The double Primroses are rather special Beth, but I still like the single ones! The Dicentra are also rather lovely, very delicate flowering in the shade.
love the double purple primula…it’s so pretty
So pleased Cath, I was surprised to see it doing so well, it is very shady where I have it, it must like it there!
Those double primroses are especially gorgeous, Pauline!
Thanks Cathy, there are so many lovely ones to choose from, spoilt for choice!