Hi Eileen,..ah yes the Hibiscus Woodbridge,..i wasn't sure if it would grow over here but as most plants seem to thrive in my garden,..maybe because its a suntrap and walled in,..i tried it out,..and success,..its a nice flower indeed. ................................................................................................................................................................................ Hi Barb,..nice to see you also,..i hope you will be ready for a blitz of pictures lol. ............................................................................................................................................................................... The Garden in October.
Just beautiful Philip and a pleasure to watch time and time again. I can never get enough of your gorgeous roses but I wish I could breath in their scent as well as look at them.
Thank's Eileen,..there was a time that i wasn't bothered if the rose didn't have a scent,..then when the occasional visitor came into the garden,..first thing they did was sniff at the roses and i found myself saying,.. try that one over there,..its scented,..so now i take cuttings from only the scented ones. Putting on a nice display just now,..Pieris japonica 'Mountain Fire'. Pulmonaria officinalis 'Lungworth'.
Isn't it wonderful to see our gardens coming back to life again? I do so enjoy springtime!! Your Pieris is beautiful Philip. Mine is recovery after the gales flattened it and is putting out new growth.
When it starts coming back to life it beckons me out,..then within a week blooms suddenly appear and i want to remain in the garden,..this year i have a new Bird Visitor to the garden,..i am sure its a Dunnock,..i am sure you have them in Scotland,..i have just the one,..easily mistaken for a Female Sparrow,..though much browner. Wallflowers.
You're right Philip that is a Dunnock also called a Hedge Sparrow or Hedge Accentor. Yours appears to be a male who's probably on the look out for a mate. I have a few that visit here as well as the more usual house sparrows.
Ah so it is the Dunnock,..thanks for confirming that,..i have only spotted one other around here and that was down near the river,..as for Sparrows they appeared in the garden only this year,..its mostly the Blue,..Great,..and Coal Tit that arrive in groups in my garden,..not forgetting the Robin of course. Helleborus 'Double Ellen Picotee',..and Helleborus 'Double Ellen Red',..blooming now.
I have two hellebores flowering just now too Philip. They, along with the snowdrops, are the first flowers that appear in the garden each year and are a very welcome sight.
Eileen,..do you have yours in a pot or planted out,..i had mine in pots placed at ground level,..this year i raised them to a small garden table top,..just to keep off the slugs,..not a sign of the slugs this year. I like Snowdrops,..and Crocus but sadly they would be dwarfed with all my tall plants,..mmmmmm thinking about a container,..lol if i have room for one. Primrose and Cowslips.
Mine are planted out in the ground Philip. I divided the common pink one so, technically, I have three in the garden. I've never had any slug damage to any of them here although the little devils make short work of some of my other plants.
The first year i had them it was those small slugs that attacked mine,..i killed them but only after the damage,..where i have them positioned now,..atop a garden table,..not a blemish thankfully.
Narcissius 'Replete',..i wish i had more of these. Coal Tit. This year i didn't have to sow many seeds due to plants self seeding,..the container below started producing seedlings last year so i decided to let them mature,..they all survived over winter plus more in other parts of the garden,..they are mostly Digitalis 'Foxglove',..and Verbascum niger ' Dark Mullein'. Primula vulgaris 'Common Primrose'. Sempervivum tectorum 'Hens and Chicks'.
More wonderful pics, Philip. congrats on having a dunnock in your garden. Now that they are there I hope that it stays. Will you put out some seeds for it? We feed them in our lottie and they are now present the whole year round. I like them. P place some seeds down on the ground and also on a feeder table and they now visit both. Those crazy things eat not only the seeds but also peanut butter! What a surprise. Wonderful narcissus and Primula this time.
