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What is Happening In Your Garden This Spring?
If we were able to meet as we usually do: on a CHS tour bus, a day trip, at the plant sale or a lecture, our conversations would be full of what was springing up in our gardens. We all take such delight in the first push of sturdy bulb-shoots, express amazement at stalwart frost survivors and lament our winter losses. What is coming up, failing to, or falling over – in your garden this spring? Like last year’s Lockdown show, we have made a special Flickr Album that you can see by clicking on this PLANTWATCH link, or on the page heading. Please send your photos and sketches to chsflickr@gmail.com with a title and a description of 60 words maximum.
A SELECTION OF IMAGES AND THEIR STORIES FROM CHS PLANTWATCH ON FLICKR
Peter Wooton-Beard
The Chipper Arrives!
9 months after we arrived at Rhos Eithin, a momentous day as the dozens of tons of overgrown shrubs and dead wood that I have cleared from the site are turned into mulch for the new beds….I might have even got a bit emotional about it! In the foreground: One of John Corfield’s miniature tulips in flower! A nice reminder.
Kay Edwards
Winter Flowering Heathers
The winter flowering heathers (mainly Erica x darleyensis) have been making a cheerful show since January. Soon the primroses will take over on this dry, sunny bank.
Heather Larose
Continuation of repurposing stones found in the garden to make a new retaining wall and steps. Aubretia grown from seed just starting to flower.
Peter Wooton-Beard
Tulipa turkstanica
The first clusters of Tulipa turkstanica are about to open. A dainty little thing that I will be growing in amongst the grasses (when they get going)!
Philip Ellis
Rhododendron leucaspis
Too early to be let out here, but it does well in Cornwall.
Barbara White
I like trying something new: this year, optimistically its Caigua! The seeds look and feel like bits of wood. It is a herbaceous vine with edible fruit, used as a vegetable. Known only from cultivation, its large size compared to closely related wild species suggests that domestication goes back many centuries, with evidence on ancient Peruvian ceramics. The fully grown but still immature fruit is either eaten cooked or in salads and pickles.
Barbara White
Chimonanthus Praecox
Fragrant, just a couple of blooms this year, the Bull finches love the flower buds!!
Barbara White
Broad Beans in the Winter Greenhouse
Sown late autumn, usually get a good crop before they are pulled out. It’s always a struggle growing anything outside here, along with these crops we have garlic, parsley & a few carrots.
Anne Ellin
Wind
Garden arch horizontal complete with climbers and plant store hugging the wall! Trying to take photos in the perfect storm yesterday was a challenge.
Ann Ellin
Early Seeds Indoors
Barbara White
Winter Greenhouse: Senshyu Yellow onions.
A Japanese variety, sown in the autumn and lifted before tomatoes are planted. Always a bit tight for timing, but worth a go.
Anne Ellin
Rhubarb “Victoria”