Mid-March, a hard frost last night will probably have blasted some of the lovely new shoots and buds that have been popping up. Luckily, I took photos yesterday for this week’s #SixOnSaturday.
I hope these have made it through their first cold night in the cold frame. A few broad beans that I started in the greenhouse are gearing up for the spring growing season. I need to plant more as some mice got into the greenhouse and feasted on some of my pots.
In pots on a sunny table near the greenhouse, spring blooms are busy. I love a drumstick primula, this one has delightful flowers and promising almost-furry buds.
New shoots are bursting forth. One of my favourites is magnolia stellata. I’ve been waiting a while, looks like I’ll have to wait a bit longer for the flowers. In the mean time the buds are now very fat and very furry.
Climbing roses are now awake, and showing off new shoots and leaves. This one shows an interesting detail of a red lining to each of the leaves.
It is good to spend some time investigating small details. Clematis Montana, for example, is pushing new shoots that will soon give us leaves and flowers.
My best find this week is a plant that only pops up some years, and hides in the not-quite-tidy borders. The wonderful erythronium (dogs tooth violet) is full of visual detail in both it’s foliage and the almost perfect flowers.
No frogs this week (see last week’s blog), I suspect they are back into torpor in the bottom of the pond, I hope the frogs wan make it through this chilly snap (freezing again this morning). The flowers and shoots are satisfying enough for now. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, it’s a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot
Ooh, these broadbeans are really beautiful, and well ahead of mine: well done! When did you sow them? Mine have been in the ground for 3 weeks under a small polytunnel, but I can’t see anything yet because it’s too cold. As for these pretty erythronium flowers, they’re really a success
I start the broadens in pots in the greenhouse. They are resting outside now, it is still too cold to put into the ground.