Isn't that last one acer? What beautiful stems! Mine had been lying on the ground and the root ball half out. The foxes and wind and of course, the lazy me! I propped it up yesterday and I just need to find a place for my beauty. It was a tiny £1.99 beauty! Is the other one a pittosporum? Up the road, a man had 2 in his front garden and when one flowered, I would sniff and sniff like a dog! Very chocolatey. He had a most beautiful tidy front garden. But the 2 were as scarlet as yours!
Talking about All 4: I have never watched so much good TV for a long time. I have been immersed in true crime murders, but C4's crime thrillers have been keeping me on edge. I have to say, Zenj, you must be very brainy. All those Oedipus, Icarius, Promethus had me drifting in and out of consciousness! I did know about the first two, the last one not so familiar. I nearly gave up as I was half dead. The romantic interest is a bit of rubbish. I started to think there was no handsome actors in France as these drama all featured that detective, Clovis, and every time I saw him, I wanted to wash his hair. But this Passenger made me miss Clovis! LOL! You see, I am a victim of lookism!
C5 featured a good investigative docu into the death of Sadie Hartley. Very good episode. I gifted me a very good evening last night. I also enjoyed Nordic murders, but I wanted to peel off the caked wall paint on Karin's face. The woman detective is disgusting: putting it about! Dramas nowadays have to integrate unwarranted promiscuity!
One thing worries me: The EU ambassadors all agreed to the deal! Meaning we have been had!
Another thing is that all these professors extolling the Oxford vaccine, amongst some others makes me think that these are not panaceas and yet our government are throwing money at it as if there would be no tomorrow. This blessed virus have now mutated into viruses and a nurse who had been vaccinated 18 days ago showed NO IMMUNITY! The blind leading the blind! Meanwhile, shares are rising and some people are eyeing huge profits at the expense of humanity!
This is also part of the Spring Promise series, Lily
Spring Promise Anja Oudolf.
See the virus on the leaves? I need to trim them and burn them. Apparently, my land is full of virus! Too hot and it's a hotbed for aphids!
A single shade of the Night??
These beautiful clump could be an Elwesii.; For anybody who is interested: Broader leaves i.e. bigger than the width of the small finger nail could be either an Elwesii or Plicatus. In this case, the leaves seem to be facing each other instead of folding into each other, so this would be an Elwesii or plicatus or just a hybrid. Need to see these grow up a bit more to see how the leaves actually relate to each other. The shorter bulb seems to have leaves folding round each other. So not yet known. If you have land, grow some Elwesii as they are the earliest flowering ones, vital for bees and bugs. The hooded tips seem to suggest a plicatus. Wait and see!
This looks like a double!
Now, this is pure excitement - a
Bill Clark. Apparently, Bill Clark is a plicatus, an offspring of Wendy's Gold and is named after the warden of Wandlebury Ring site. I had Wandlebury Ring which was huge!
According to Judysnowdrop:
This snowdrop has a “real” yellow ovary and simple inner marking !
"real", but qualified by ""?? Whatever it means!
If you want to know, the leaves of plicatus are perfectly well shown here
1) Greyish blue colour
2) hooded tip like a cobra head!
3) broader than small finger nail (now that's VERY scientific! LOL!)
4) Leaves NOT like praying. From the dead leaves, you can see they fold around one another.
These teasers will torment me with their slow developments, aggravated by the freezing cold. Keep warm, everybody!
I'm still a bad mother as I still don't know how to terach them NOT to poo in their bed chamber! 
