endlessrarities | Garden Update - End of April, 2011 (Reply)

I'm glad to be home, because everything's going great guns in the garden. And we're in the middle of a dry spell, so I'm running around like a mad thing, watering everything in sight.

I went to a garden centre today, and bought 18 small patio & container plants - fuschia, nemesia, bacopa and verbena. These will complement my existing plants, which mainly consist of petunia, surfinia and the like, plus the odd geranium, nicely. So I'm all set to put together this year's pots and containers, with seven begonia already potted up (NB: I said this last year, and I'll say it again. If you've never stuck your nose into a nemesia before, try it. The perfume is exquisite.). Once everything's hardened off properly, the work on transforming the patio can begin in earnest.

I didn't get around to photographing the blue cammasia this year, which is a shame. But there's always this year. I had to post some photos of this year's tulip crop, though, as it might not be as good next year:-

The tree paeony has flowered at last, and it's lovely! A brilliant cerise colour:-

Not bad for a fiver on special offer from Thomson & Morgan...

The second tree paeony is also in bud, and I'm hoping it's a different colour. But since it also came from T & M on special offer (though in a different year), chances are it's the same. Anyway, I just had to post it!!

Here's the general view of the back garden, which is still - as ever - a work in progress:-

As for the petunia I've been growing on... They're the best ones ever, I think!! Putting the capilliary matting under the peat pots on the tray and having a constant supply of water available to the plantlets seems to have made them come on a treat.