Updating my Gou virtual garden.

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What a stormy, windy day, but we in the South desperately need the rain, although it has been quite cold at nights, too cold to put plants out on the allotment.
So I have started updating my Gou files again, dashing outside to take quick snaps.
The purple Azalea behind the upper pond, with my pitcher plants on the left.

Now that some of the Geraniums are starting to flower, I’m trying to decide which is which.

Geranium phaeum Margaret Wilson has Lilac coloured flowers

G. phaeum Springtime has deep purple flowers.

Geranium phaeum Album has disappeared, probably when I moved the Crinodendron.

I moved the Narcissus, Golden Bells in its pot to see if this place is a suitable home, in front of the Dierama. The Dierama need all the dead foliage clipping off. Dierama just don’t transplant well.

Made sure the Perspex cover over the alpines had not blown off. When am I ever going to remove it this Spring?
Ps, I scarified the grass yesterday.

Yesterday, resited Iris japonica variegata, in front of Iris confusa, from a temporary pot…..

….also in a temporary pot, Iris foetidissima variegata, for resiting. They do have slightly different rhizomes, and when they bloom the flowers are quite different. Now standing in the conservatory border till I’m sure I don’t plant it on top of something else.

My Veronicastrum has to go in this border too.

I don’t recall removing the Lythrum salicaria, it was here, a big clump. it’s not something one can ‘lose’?

• 8 May, 2021
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