Hyacinth, Delft Blue, April 2002

Above: Hyacinth "Delft Blue"

Garden diary: March

Highlights of the April garden

Hyacinth "Delft Blue" (photo, left)
Tulip "Apricot Beauty"
Tulip "Queen of the Night", (photo, right)
Tulip "Mariette"
Akebia quinata - full of bright green leaves and small purple flowers
Dicentra spectabilis - a fine combination of gaudy colour and very graceful form
Clematis alpina "White Columbine"
Blue early-flowering clematis

8 April 2005

We've just had a bit of a snowstorm, with white flakes whirling, all blown about on a nasty north-easterly.
More from the garden, April 2005

April 2004 | April 2003 | April 2002 | April 2001

Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England - now!!

Robert Browning - Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)


Tulip Queen of the Night

Above: Tulip "Queen of the Night"

Garden diary: May