the most colourful time of year

Beautiful Sticky, I love this time of the year too!

Wow! Can't believe your Pieris is already in bloom . . . lovely pic Sticki.

Right you are Stikitoffee, absolutely beauties going on there :))))))

Darned site more colourful than my mess Sticki!

thank you everyone;
pieris has been out for a while sheila, not often that there is no colour on them ~ thats why i like them
but i havent got exotics meanie ~ the camellia, azalea and pierris were here when we came ~ lucky me!

very pretty sticki, your right they dont last long enough.

The "exotics" take up a lot of indoor space, and that is all well and good until the red spider mite comes a knocking.......

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhgggggggggg!! thats not so good.
dont mind spiders really ~ its slugs i hate.

Spiders I like (we had a Tarantula move into the flat in Sydney) - red spider mite I curse!

did you keep the tarantula?

It just decided it was staying!
We called it Spike.

i had a feeling you might have named it!!
and no doubt you fed it too??

We preferred not to think about what it found to eat!
It must have escaped from captivity, as it was completely unfazed by being around people.

Your garden's looking fab Sticki! So neat too! You've had great weather to take photos. And I know what you mean about everything looking lovely and staying for longer, but, if it didn't go away, it couldn't come back again next year!

excellent it looks like July or something - very nice garden and colours :):):)

thanks both ~ it had been raining a little so the colours look brighter.
very true libet!
i dont think it looks as good in july PG ~ have you got some plants you could recommend??

Thats a lovely picture Sticki. Fantastic colour

very nice,Sticki,lots of lovely colour..you must have acid soil there,for them to do so well..

thank you cinderella and bloomer ~ yes its a bit on the acid side ~ im glad about that cos these are the plants i like. its on the side of the lickey hills

Couldn't be better then..to be able to have plants you like..:o)

im very lucky.

Wow, that is really beautiful and just so 'spring'. I love Camellias too, in fact I think I shall plant a Camellia for Japan. Perhaps not a Japonica after this winter, but a good Williamsii to replace one of my dead evergreens. Thank you Sticki!

welcome karen

I think rubbeckias are lovely Stickitoffee for summer - Goldsturm type

is that the yellow daisy-type with the black centre? to put in the spaces i have?

yes - quite big - but just a thought for you :):)

thank you! that border is quite shady ~ will they be ok in there? OH likes them, i think i have seeds for one type of rudbeckia

it can tolerate partial shade yes - grows tall anyway so should reach the sun the flower heads :):):)

Must be a treat to look out your window on a sunny spring morning ..

yes certain times of the year are better than others but the trees are lovely, even if they do create shade, thanks bill.

the colours have gone now tho ~ azalea and camellia have finished till next year!