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The garden is coming alive with plenty of colour. The star of the show at the moment is the Ceanothus. It was here when we moved in four years ago but hadn’t been looked after. Now, it’s covered in bloom and brightens a dark corner. See picture attached.

The rest of the garden is enlivened by the Heuchera Lime Marmalade and a beautiful caramel coloured one with dark orange veins and green leaf edgings. I can’t, for the life of me, remember the variety and the label has long gone.
The Aquilegias have gone mad, the Choisya Aztec has just started to bloom and the rock plants are a riot of colour. I’m pretty pleased with the way the garden looks.

It seems like all the plants loved the cold followed by the hot. Except for the Agapanthus. One pot is surviving but there’s no sign of the other. Still you can’t have everything and, at the moment, when I look out of the window the size and colour of all the blooms give me a real lift.

I hope you’re all feeling the same about your gardens. I’m sure you are.

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that is a wonderful shrub. I had a lovely one but it died in the winter of 2010/11

isn't it great when everything starts coming to life. I'm hoping my agapanthus have survived in their pots.

9 May, 2018

 

Your Ceanothus is a picture.

Agree it's good to see a garden coming to life again.

9 May, 2018

 

What a lovely corner to look out on a just reward after all the miserable weather we have had.

10 May, 2018

 

Lovely ceanothus and as the others say, spring makes all the difference after a long hard winter. It gives me so much more energy ?

10 May, 2018

 

Well, we all agree about Spring, this one in particular. It's been such a long, long and grey winter. We deserve and need a good lot of sunshine now. Let's hope we get it.

Let's be optimistic - we ARE going to have a beautiful summer and autumn. If we all say it surely it must come true!

10 May, 2018

 

What a glorious colour! Don’t see many round here do they need acidic soil?

10 May, 2018

 

Beautiful colour !

10 May, 2018

 

How lovely for you :) And the pic is beautiful :)

11 May, 2018

 

I think our soil here is neutral but I don’t think Ceanothus needs acid soil, Sewing. It certainly blooms better with some TLC though, that’s for sure.

11 May, 2018

 

It's a beautiful plant and a change from the bursts of yellow we have had with all the daffodils. The weather has caused a spurt in growth of everything - mostly weeds, but that serves me right for not tidying up before the winter!

15 May, 2018

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