The month ends warm. April quite often does, the sun suddenly appears and everything warms up. It is grand.
Am I still in love with the new front lawn? Gosh yes, it has had another mow and it is just a delight.
Memories from the Knot Garden keep reasserting themselves through the grass. Isn't this tulip wonderful? I have carefully mowed around it, it felt rude not to.
The Gertrude Jekyll rose by the front door is, as usual, the first to open its flowers. The scent is wonderful. I always think it is first because it is by a warm wall as my other Gertrudes are not this far on.
The new ceanothus in the front garden is starting to flower. This makes me very happy. There was a ceanothus in the front garden when I first moved in but it died after a couple of years, so this feels like a piece of restoration. I love the deep blue of its flowers.
The new clematis is on its way up.
and the passionflower made it through the Winter. Exciting times ahead for the new fence.
On the other side of the fence some of the new tulips are flowering.
My beloved Gingko is leafing up nicely. Always a happy moment,
In the Smell me and Dye Garden the madder is growing well and the woad is starting to flower. I need to move the sweetpea support to a new position, not sure where, but as I have not sown any sweetpea seeds yet this year (don't ask) I do not feel in a rush (this is a bit of a lie....).
In the back garden the standard wisteria, that used to be white but is now purple and white is starting to flower. It has developed a bit of a lean and I will have to put that right. I debate every year whether to cut the purple out to restore it to white. The purple must be emerging from below where it was grafted and it is rather dominant and yet I like the the effect.
Lawn mowing is now in its fortnightly cycle.
and before you whisper 'no mow May' just remember that a good third of my garden will not be mown until September.
It is cow parsley time in the Wild Garden. It is abundant this year, it is abundant every year.
I look to the Liriodendron and wonder whether this year will be the year that it flowers. It is about seventeen years old now so it should be soon........ she hopes......
The tree ferns still look wintery-brown...
but there are knuckles.
The plants that are released from the conservatory are doing well outside, except the very sickly rubber plant still looks very sickly. I just did not water it enough through the Winter and it has almost totally defoliated. Will it recover? Time will tell.......
The pond looks quite choked up but it is not too bad really and there has been frogspawn (hurrah hurrah). Yes there have been newts eating the frogspawn, but I am hoping some have survived.
I wonder what May will bring for the garden...
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