Flashes of light in the wild garden. Anemone blanda White Splendour. It’s full of bees today. White Stands out well against a leafmould carpet. I love the golden stamens.
Wild primroses escape from the hedgerow and colonise the lawn. We will mow around them.
Wild violets all along the hedgerow. Fabulous scent. More bees.
Talking of scent, these hyacinths, Carnegie White and Delft Blue, are still going strong on the greenhouse trolley. I’m enjoying shuffling the plant pots around for my “potted garden” display. Must admit, I got the idea from Monty Don. His “little pots of delight” always caught my attention. Last autumn, I threw lots of bulbs unceremoniously into shallow pans and Sankey pots, and stuffed them under the greenhouse benches. Corkscrew hazel twigs are holding the hyacinths up. ( Thank you Mary for dropping two sacks of twigs on the grass verge for me. 🙂)
From little terracotta pans – to this giant Italian pot, bulbs look great in any container. This is packed full with 50 white tulips. After I’d planted them, I thought I’d layer up with other bulbs to extend the flowering season. There’s white crocus Joan of Arc, anemone blanda, blue hyacinths, and blue violas, topped off with narcissi February Gold.
It’s really worth buying top-size bulbs. These crocus have three flower stems per bulb. It prolongs the crocus season. So cheerful now the weather has turned cold and windy. We need all the cheer we can get. It’s currently sleeting here, and snow is said to be on the way. Enjoy your gardening weekend, and try to keep warm. I will be in the greenhouse- with the heating switched on!
Links:
Six on Saturday https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/09/six-on-saturday-09-03-2019/
Anemone blanda https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/90635/i-Anemone-blanda-i-White-Splendour/Details
Bulbs : https://www.gee-tee.co.uk/
Bulb compost : https://www.dalefootcomposts.co.uk/products/bulb-compost.p.aspx
Your so lucky to get perfumed violets around us it is mostly dog violets, but they are still pretty. Amelia
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Thank you. They are by the front gate. Lovely to come home to.
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A glorious collection Karen. They sure lift the spirits.
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Putting twigs into hyacinth pots is a great idea which I first saw Sarah Raven use when I went on a course at Perch Hill. I think they also add a certain welcome structure (and I use them in big flower arrangements – pedestals for the church – from time to time for that reason).
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I might have a go at a pedestal arrangement this year. Trying something new. Thanks for reading.
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Oh what a good idea to use the twisted hazel for propping up hyacinths – I think I will take that on board too. It’s certainly more elegant than the alternatives. Love the trolley as well!
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Thank you Cathy 🙂 xx
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Stunning hyacinths a la Monty and those violets are sweet.
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Thank you. Just going out to see if they are still standing. Gale force winds here all weekend.
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Love your pot display Karen. Must up my game.
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Thank you 😊
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I love jean of arc crocuses. It’s that thin purple line that does it for me!
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Me too 🙂
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Karen all your flowers I love, they are magnificent and the bees will be delighted. The soft Anemone White Splendor is divine. The wild springs in the green meadow are wonderful. All the pots on the greenhouse car have flowers that I love like the Jagietos Carnegie White and Delft Blue. The giant clay pot is a source of beauty with the amount of bulbs it houses in bloom for months: I love it, I love it, I love it. I’ll copy it for next year, plus I already have the pot! The white Crocuses Joan of Arc I like very much, they are very beautiful. Karen thank you very much for showing us your wonderful flowers from your garden: they are a treasure and they have made me smile. I’m sorry it’s cold and it’s going to snow. Warm up very well and stay warm. Very good idea of the Greenhouse! Here today is 20ºC, but they say that this week the weather will change. Hopefully! Thanks for the links, I like them a lot. Karen love, health, strength and happiness for your whole family and for you. Take care and rest. Very loving greetings from Margarita.
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Thank you Margarita. It’s been perishing cold – and it did snow, but didn’t settle. It’s only 8C tonight. I’m having to take extra measures to keep warm. I didn’t have any trouble during February, but there’s a really cold wind here now. Brrr. Keep warm also. Loving greetings to you all and many thanks. Karen xx
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The garden is definitely coming alive
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It’s certainly taking off. Have a good week Derrick 😊
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You, too, Karen
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I love the wild violets – seems an odd question but I’m wondering if I can buy them anywhere! Beautiful crocus too, looking pefect in the spring pot. My anemones are only just in bud, the London bubble is not doing it’s job!!
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We are all over the place with the weather aren’t we. Looked out the window this morning and all the Hellebores were flat on the ground with the snow. By 11am they were back up again. I’ll send you some violets if you like. E mail your address to k.gimson@btinternet.com . I have masses here. They came from my grandfather Ted Foulds.
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thank you, that’s very kind. And how lovely that they come from your grandfather. I’ll be in touch.
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I bought lots of those cheap packets of bulbs from the garden centre this year and stuffed them in small pots, mainly crocus and iris and they have been fabulous.
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I love your garden Helen. I bet those bulbs look wonderful. So cheerful aren’t they.
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Crikey, those hyacinths are a show.
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Thank you 😊
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Lovely photos. Spring bulbs are so colourful and a sign of Winter going & Spring arriving
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Thank you 😊
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Good idea these tortuous stems of hazel … I have a friend who gave me stems to make cuttings last Sunday. He has a huge hazel tree in his garden that produces even nuts and I will try to get one shrub here … If it’s like the common hazel, I should succeed!
What a beautiful Anemone Blanda! Mine are dark blue and light blue. The white is super nice too
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Thank you. Hadn’t thought of taking cuttings! Great idea! Yay. Then I’ll have my own supply. A friend dropped these on the grass verge for me. They are so useful! Enjoy your weekend . K
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Beautiful display of bulbs and the collar weather might slow down their demise a little. I really like the corkscrew hazel too.
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Thank you Keith 😊
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This is my first year growing anemone blanda. They were a bulb mix. So far only the purple have opened, but one bud looks like it will be white or pale pink. I love it!
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They are all so beautiful. I’ve got blue ones in the front garden, and wild ones under the trees. Enjoy! 😊
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Anomene blanda? I must look that one up.
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Oops; I do know that one. I have not tried it yet, but have seen it in catalogues. It supposedly does well here, even with redwood litter, but I have not seen it in anyone else’s garden. I don’t like to be the first to try something, but might be the first for this one.
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Yes it is. Hope you can grow it there. To be pretty. Follows crocus.
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I found it appealing because it looks wild. I am told that it tolerates redwood litter, but I sort of wonder how anyone knows if no one has grown it here yet. Someone must have done so somewhere else in redwood country.
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So lovely collection 🙂
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Thank you kindly
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The epitome of spring!
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Thank you Gill. Hope all is well xx
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I’ve got lots of pots of joy shifted around during the year but with building work going on can’t put them on the patio in pride of place. The irises are the current stars.
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My iris are all going over. Luckily the primroses are taking them place. Good luck with the building. We are hoping to build an eco house. Eventually.
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Wow those hyacinths are huge!
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That is what I was about to say. I have not tried them in years, but there are a few at work. I will post pictures of them tomorrow. They fell down in the rain.
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Oh no. Mine started to droop , so I stuck in some twigs, which did the trick.
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We did the same . . . after I got the picture.
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Thank you. I used dalesfoot bulb compost . Can recommend.
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