March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Anne Repnow]

Rather common, but I love 'em...

(1) Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' (producing thousands of seedlings in a patch of Hakonechloa)
(2) Anemone blande 'White Splendour'

[art600]

 
  A pot of Tecophilaea that cost only £6.00 last year 

[Leena]

Bolinopsis, how lovely combination of Helleborus and Hepatica!
I have also Helleborus Pink Lady, grown from Jelitto seeds, it is very floriferous (but here only now snowing buds, which are now covered by snow last night)

[Giles]

Magnolia campbellii 'Charles Raffill'
..after 8 yrs waiting..

[David Nicholson]

Magnolia campbellii 'Charles Raffill'
..after 8 yrs waiting..

...... and worth every second Giles.

[Anne Repnow]

That Tecophilea ist beautiful, art600! A wonderful blue A shame it won't survive outside (at least not here).

@Leena: Thank you. - 'Pink Lady' is very vigorous, isn't it? I moved it around the garden 3 times because it quickly became to big for the spot I chose (my inexperience). I hope yours survives the snow undamaged.

@ Giles: What an amazing flower - and it looks very big! Yes, well worth waiting for.

[meanie]

Spotted this whilst I was out doing the "slug run"......................


About a month earlier than is usual for me.

[Philip Walker]

I'll put this in before I kill it off.
Dionysia aretioides

[Steve Garvie]

Yellow is the dominant colour amongst the shrubs in my garden in early March.

Cornus mas


Rhododendron lutescens


Corylopsis pauciflora

[Tim Ingram]

Just planted Corylopsis pauciflora, a species I have always wanted to grow, but it will be a whole until it looks as good as that! We are growing it with a cobnut and Hamamellis in a shady area steadily being planted up with more choice woodlanders, aiming eventually to emulate Maggi and Ian's beautiful woodland plantings.

[Margaret]

Lovely picture of Corylopsis pauciflora - one of my favourites.  We had one for years but eventually the roots must have found some alkaline builder's rubble below a good depth of topsoil and it died.

[meanie]

Rather common, but I love 'em...

(1) Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' (producing thousands of seedlings in a patch of Hakonechloa)
(2) Anemone blande 'White Splendour'

I must confess to having something of an (intense) dislike of anything with "daisy-like" flowers. However, I am rather fond of my A.blanda too......................


Hard to put my finger on why I make an exception for them. They just work for me visually- nicely proportioned maybe?

Scilla siberica is another nice wee spring bulb in the garden today...................


Very little seems to be escaping the slugs this year and the slimey critters have taken a lot of these out.

[Anne Repnow]

Meanie, maybe it is just spring that makes you more lenient...   I'm not too keen on yellows in my garden - but in spring it is wonderful (including Cornus mas and Corylopsis - but I draw a line at Forsythia)

I didn't know slugs liked Scilla!

[meanie]

Meanie, maybe it is just spring that makes you more lenient...   I'm not too keen on yellows in my garden - but in spring it is wonderful (including Cornus mas and Corylopsis - but I draw a line at Forsythia)

Maybe.

I didn't know slugs liked Scilla!

Scilla, Ornithogallum, Fritillary, Tricyrtis, Ipheon and just about anything else that is emerging here that I like! But none of the stuff that I'm trying to get rid of.

[Anne Repnow]

After heaving read a report that certain snail pellets aren't a problem for hedgehogs I use them without a bad conscience. If I start early (warm days on in February/March) I don't need much to keep the snails at bay - 1 package does me for a whole year.

The only problem is that we have large populations of the protected vineyard snails (helix pomatia). Some of those are killed, too. But enough survive to keep the population doing well.