WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN APRIL 2019

[MaryMary]

@zigs, what is that delicate, tiny blue flower? (Do you think it is low enough to live under the mower? I would seed the lawn with that!!! )

 

[Sean Regan]

Two of our six wisterias, on the pergola on the back of the house. they are the first to flower, they meet in the middle.

 

[zigs]

@zigs, what is that delicate, tiny blue flower? (Do you think it is low enough to live under the mower? I would seed the lawn with that!!! )

It's a Speedwell, they evolved to survive grazing so it would and does survive the mower

The leaf rosettes look like little cabbages and I used to pick them and put them in the back of my toy land rover and pretend I was taking them to market when I was a Ziglet

 

[zigs]

 

[Logan]

English Bluebells in my garden

 

[zigs]

Some sort of Sycamore...

 

[Sheal]

It looks like an Acer to me @zigs .

 

[Esther Knapicius]

 

[johnny canoe]

Snow is coming today, all my plants are safe in the GH with both heaters going.

 

[Sean Regan]

Snow is coming today, all my plants are safe in the GH with both heaters going.
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It's a shame that all that effort can be subject to the weather you experience.

Here in the "Tropic of Trafford" (I call it that as we are in South Manchester/North Cheshire sheltered by hills on three sides) we never get really cold weather. All we've had this year is a sprinkling of snow and on Monday I was playing golf in "short sleeves."

But we probably get more than our fair share of rain. Like for the last two days and more is expected tomorrow.

I've been looking for things to do. So I cleared out a lot of "dead filing" and had a burn up in my incinerator on the small patio behind the shed. Incinerators are great as you can use them even if it's raining.

 

[Logan]

White hardy geranium

Blueberry

 

[johnny canoe]

Hello Sean, gardening beside the Rocky Mountains is a challenge this time of year. I like your burn barrel.

9:15pm and I just poked my nose out the back door, I can hear the sirens on the Queen Elizabeth highway, people are crashing their cars, the blizzard has been raging for a few hours now.

 

[Logan]

That looks bad @johnny canoe hope everything is ok.

 

[Sean Regan]

The azaleas hedge that grows round our tiny front lawn is coming into bloom.

The red azaleas to the side of the patio are out, the white ones will follow.

The first rhodo to flower. The one to the right won't flower until August.

These two tree azaleas won't be long to flower now.

This "well trained" wisteria is nearly there.

This Amber clematis, new to us last year, is spreading rapidly.

All in all, we ain't looking too shabby.

 

[the lawnsman]

The azaleas hedge that grows round our tiny front lawn is coming into bloom.




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The red azaleas to the side of the patio our out, the white ones will follow.

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The first rhodo to flower. The one to the right won't flower until August.


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These two tree azaleas won't be long to flower now.

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This "well trained" wisteria is nearly there.

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This Amber clematis, new to us last year, is spreading rapidly.

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All in all, we ain't looking too shabby.


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wow!
looks so nicely proper, fit for the queen!
I herby tap the applause button, well done!