Garden Snap Shots!

Beautiful Brue👍

Thanks TDA, you'll be pleased to hear I saw a beautiful yellow Magnolia in full flower in one of our nearby villages. If yours looks like that in the future it will be quite stunning! I've never spotted one before just seen them in pots in plant nurseries etc.

Some Hostas that are more forward than the rest of my collection.

They are June which this year as started to revert back to its parent Halcyon. Also Wolverine , Sagae, and El Niño .

its nice to see some spring growth

Your hostas look beautifully healthy😁 Mine aren’t as far on as that yet, but doing ok.

The Magnolia is in the ground now Brue, just hope it likes it’s new home. I spent the last few sunny hours yesterday tidying up pots and repotting where required. Awful wet and windy day now, so confined indoors at Mums at the moment.

I've been outside this morning as we have quite a few things that need to come out of their pots and into the ground, most have gone in now. I have been trying to find plants that make nice edges to the borders so that we don't have to grow so many annuals to fill the gaps. Came in because I got quite cold but it's not very warm at all inside or out!

I saw an interesting idea at HC Brue, they were using Epimediums to edge one border, looked like they had been cut quite low to keep them small, but that multi colour foliage, plus the Spring flowering looked very nice.

Two ideas used at Brodsworth Hall in the past, one was low growing ivy, kept in check along the border, nice if it was variegated or with gold in it. Second was a border made up of Echivivums (?🤔) those little succulents that have lots of babies. Not frost proof the second though, certainly not in Yorkshire anyway🤣

Thanks TDA looks like the Epimediums in our garden have already decided that's a good idea, they've spread from the back and are advancing forwards.  I like idea of some patches of succulents. 

Just a few photos of some of my flowers, the mini raised bed has a lot of trailing small phlox and is great at this time of year and glad to see it as I thought I had lost it last year due to the heat but it has recovered well, not done well with Iris flowers this year this is the only one in the bed of them and not really crowded either but will move some later in the year to see if that helps.

Lovely colours Red Kite. Your garden is weeks further on than ours, we have a 0c overnight warning for Tuesday!🥶 

We used to be 3 weeks earlier than the north when we lived in Somerset and now more 5 to 6 weeks ahead, glad I took photos yesterday as we have had heavy rain today and the Lilac has come off worse for it, thanks for you comments Tda.