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Every day
this month brings new flowers and bright, fresh leaves. April began with
red and yellow tulips in the urns outside the back door and a continuing
show from numerous varieties of narcissi.
Primroses, fritillaries,
pulmonarias and purple honesty continue the colour in the hellebore bed
and elsewhere epimediums and anemones are in full bloom. A trip to The
Garden House at Buckland Monochorum lead to the purchase of four new
types of anemone to add to my collection of blandas.
David and Mum have been
incredibly busy in the garden this month. David removed a large dead
flowering currant from the back of the main border and, when I saw that
there was going to be a huge gap anyway, it gave me the courage to change
that section of the garden completely. I asked David to remove a huge
fuchsia that requires massive pruning every year and is still too big for
the border. So, with mum busily digging over and preparing the soil, we
are nearly ready for two or three new shrubs.
Other achievements this month
included a newly sown lawn to replace the one destroyed by ducky beaks
last winter, a new
mini hellebore bed in the duck garden and the spreading of five year's
worth of garden compost over much of the garden! |
