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.
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.
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.