I brought lots of flowers inside today. Here are single and double violets for the bedroom. The singles are like a weed in the garden; on fine sunny days the whole back garden smells of them.
The laundry doubles as a flower room. I keep my flower vases on shelves above the handtowel
The first real spring bouquet - jonquils, "Earlicheer" narcissus, miniature daffodils and snowflakes
Delicious daphne and 'Alpenglo' camellia
Freckly hellebore
Assorted hellebores having a long soak
Other deeds today include planting a feijoa given to me by a friend. It had been growing by a hedge at her house and surplus to requirements, so I gladly welcomed it to a spot under my apricot tree. It was in a grow bag, but I had to remove that to get the feijoa to fit in the hole - there was a large apricot root there that I didn't want to cut, and the now de-bagged feijoa will grow around the root.
Fills the space quite nicely. This is a self-fruitful variety called 'Unique'. There's a rhubarb plant (dormant) in front of it but I don't think they'll bother each other.
Sitting under the apricot tree behind the feijoa, I had a different perspective on the garden
Yay! Broccoli.
Loving your garden.
ReplyDeleteSomehow I have never come across double violets. Will have to track them down. Love your freckly hellebore - and mourn the daphne which went to god here and has not yet been replaced.
I'd forgotten the whereabouts of the freckly hellebore, so it was a surprise when I found it. The double violets were given to me by the same friend who gave me the feijoa - the 'freemasonry of gardeners" as Vita Sackville-West said.
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