My yellow garden.

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I was ambling round my garden recently (as one does!) and it struck me how much of it is YELLOW this year!

I didn’t plant any of the clumps of primroses that welcome me from the gate into the garden. I seem to have primroses galore this year.

But I must start at the beginning of the year. I have some beautiful daffodils called ‘Rjinveldts Early’ and I usually have at least one flower on Christmas Day – and no, they didn’t let me down this year.

More appeared quite soon. They are a real pleasure.

I have several more different daffodils in flower, too, including Tete a Tete which is multi-headed, and some large ones which really suffered in the recent gales.

I have several shrubs with yellow flowers; my absolute favourite has ‘almost’ faded now. It is Sophora ‘Sun King’ and this is what it looked like a few weeks ago when it was at its best. I recently planted a new one because I like it so much!

Another yellow-flowered shrub is Kerria japonica – I have two, both single-flowered, though you can get one with double flowers.

On the bed of the stream that runs through our garden is a strange looking plant with a rather odd name – ‘Skunk Cabbage’! I much prefer the latin version: ‘Lysichiton americanus’

I have several Euphorbia plants in my garden, although there are many more. They are all a wonderful acid yellow.

The first one is really a wild flower. It’s called Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae.

In one of the beds I grow Euphorbia polychroma.

But my favourite one is the largest. I have several as it tends to seed itself. It also has the longest name – Euphorbia characias subs. wulfenii

In the back garden there’s a Broom (Cytisus) which is a golden shower of blooms. It’s a real pleasure, contrasting with the blue of a large ’’ growing above it.

In that bed, too, the first Doronicum is now open. It’s called ‘Little Leo’.

I mustn’t forget the Pansies growing in some of my many pots. Most are not pure yellow, but there are several I found.

Nearby I recently planted a group of yellow Primulas with a golden Heuchera.

I could go on and on, as I haven’t even mentioned the yellow foliage – Ivy, more shrubs end so on and so forth.

But I hope you will see why I think of my garden as ‘My yellow garden’- well, at the moment it is!

• 12 Apr, 2022
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