Monday, March 5

Just a couple of photographs

I just thought I'd post a couple of photos of the parts of the garden that are the most colourful at the moment.

Below is the front garden bed. The crocuses won't last much longer but the miniature daffodils and mini irises are taking over centre stage. A couple of varieties of daffodils are fully open but there are another three varieties still with tight buds. The species tulips started as red buds nestling at ground level in the centre of the cup of leaves but as the stem is lengthening the flowers are opening.
The second photograph is what I call the bird bath bed. It's a bit confusing now we have another bird bath - well three now in fact but one is by the pond so not in a flower bed. If you look at the second photo on an earlier post here, the bird bath bed is on top of the higher bit of walling on the far left of the photo and so is also close to a house window. The idea is to have lots of early spring colour close to the house. In this bed the crocuses are later - the Cream Beauty crocuses in one front corner of the bed are coming up amongst species tulip leaves so are easily mistaken for tulips. I think the delayed crocus flowering is because this bed doesn't get as much sunshine. 

The main daffodil display is provided by Tete a Tete minis and you may just be able to make out some red bellis perennis (daisies) in the foreground of the photo on the top right. I'd have expected the daisies to be perennials with a name like that but apparently they're biennials so I'll have to sow more seed for next year!
If you're interested I have some more photos of these beds through out year on my website here

Another reminder

18 comments:

  1. It's all looking lovely. I love the purple and yellow combination in the bird bath bed.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. IT's a pity the display is relatively short lived Jo - at least the cold weather should mean it all lasts that little bit longer

      Delete
  2. Damn! These are some nice pics to marvel at on a cold winter day! Thanks for sharing.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Pleasure John - it is certainly cold but at least this afternoon it wasn't too bad in the greenhouse

      Delete
  3. what a wonderful display so early in the year my garden doesnt get going till midd march normally. and looks its best in may and june.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Spring bulbs are a good way to get some early colour Stacy and they can be planted in amongst other things

      Delete
  4. What a great display! As you say though, it's a pity some of them don't last a bit longer. Those red tulips look good - I must think about having some for next year.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. The red tulips are called Show Winner Mark

      Delete
  5. What a pick me up looking at your garden, while I sit here looking at yet more..white stuff! Thank you.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Oh no not white stuff Bren - I'm glad I could share a bit of colour with you

      Delete
  6. I love the early red tulips. My mother used to have them about the front beds of my childhood home. A sure sign that spring is approaching when they bloomed. I am very partial to crocus. I love the colorful, thick blanket of cheer they provide. You have a stunning example of exactly that look around your bird bath. Cheers, Jenni

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hopefully the front garden bed with thicken up too with time, Jenni

      Delete
  7. I always enjoy bulbs, I usually forget where I've planted mine and tend to get quite excited when they come up and flower.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Forgetting is a problem Liz which means some end up being dug up - I'm sure some travel too as they seem to come up in other places than we had planted them

      Delete
  8. There is something terribly uplifting about the colours in a Spring garden. Off to have a peep what it looks like at other times.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Aren't they Just BW. That's one good reason for having the spring colour near the windows.

      Delete
  9. Such pretty flowers....and a lovely layout...fancy coming and doing my garden??

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Now you know that if I lived close to you I would Tanya :)

      Delete

Thank you for visiting and leaving a comment - it is great to hear from you and know that there are people out there actually reading what I write! Come back soon.
(By the way any comments just to promote a commercial site, or any comments not directly linked to the theme of my blog, will be deleted)
I am getting quite a lot of spam. It is not published and is just deleted. I have stopped sifting through it and just delete any that ends up in my spam folder in one go so I am sorry if one of your messages is deleted accidentally.
Comments to posts over five days old are all moderated.