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If this warm damp weather keeps up, everything will have finished flowering before summer even arrives!

Names for you Lorna!  ;D

 

These types of poppy spring up all over the garden, and they are fab and I leave them to it!

 

A couple of whites - white dicentra and white 'snow in summer'

 

A pair of shrubs now - a yellow potentilla and a soft pink lonicera the scent of which would take your breath away!  (Ina and C, I have 12 cuttings on the go in the greenhouse....fingers crossed!)

 

A couple of little ones now, a high rise primula grown from seed a few years back and an alpine, possibly a saxifrage that my mum has grown in her garden all of my life.  We always called it Chelsea Reach...don't ask why!!

 

Pink bluebells (which should have been blue), and blue bluebells.

 

Some froffy ones.  The laurel at the front of the house has never had so many flowers, and the forget-me-nots are everywhere, altho just going over.

 

These chaps like to look down!  Jacobs ladder grown from seed and cerinthes which I grew from seed a couple of years ago and was told they were tender, however they now appear all over the garden and don't seem to mind the cold at all!



And the last two are my woodland garden favourites, bugle and aquilegias.

gosh, what great pictures and plants EJ.  I have never seen a bugle, whats the foliage it is growing through?  that yellow poppy is just gorgous.

Bugle, also known as Ajuga.  It is growing through a carpet of Aquilegia seedlings.  The stuff is rampant in my woodland garden, almost a pain, but you can be brutal with it and oik it out when it gets in the way and it soon fills the gaps again.

of course, i recognise the leaves now.  You really do have some lovely plants i always like your pics. How big is your garden? your pictures are usually very close up and it is hard to tell wether youhave a huge rambling estate or a small very well tended pied a terre.  I would like to see some pictures of your allotment aswell as it sounds very interesting you kind of free form planting schemes.  hope i'm not being cheeky, just interested ;D ok nosey then ;D

Hi EJ. Many thanks for naming plants. I do have some nice bluebells at the side of greenhouse. Have also got some  poppy and aquilegia (thank you Georgie :))
Have only just put  the last two out in the garden so obviously nowhere near as forward as your plants..Last year I bought just one or two plants from a lady who grew uncommon plants. Today I was really pleased to see how the Ranunculus ficario (brazen Hussey) has come on this year. I understand it spreads like mad which is OK for where I have planted it.
Really enjoyed looking at your lovely photos. Thank you.
Lorna

love the jacobs ladder :)
your place is looking fab as always ;D

The Jacob's ladder really caught my eye - what's it's formal name?  I may have to find a small corner and squeeze some in.

Emma, your flowers are as spectacular as always...it seems that you are quite a bit further along than we are.
I just enjoy seeing your flower piccies so much. Thanks.
...and... our fingers are crossed...toes...eyes....

Lovely pix, Em..... 8)

Chelsea Reach? London Pride to me..

(at least we've got the geography right!)  I've huge banks of it established over a junk heap I inherited. The prettiest junk heap you ever did see ;D

STUNNED!!

speakless,great show.

Beautiful, you Essex Girls are certainly more forward than us Sussex ones! ;D :-X

It's that time of year again folk's.

Sarah, the other half will have to tell me how big the garden, but it is only really what I think as an average suburban garden.  It is a good size and has masses squeezed in.  Some of the pics are from the front garden, which is mainly drive, but I insisted on keeping half for plants and it is crammed with alsorts of perennials and a couple of shrubs.  It became my overspill for the plants I couldn't fit in the back garden.  I am back to square one with lots of excess plants, so the other bit of grass between us and the neighbours is next to go!  ;D