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Thanks all for sharing your gardens once again #GardensHour

Another week with lots of yellows 💛brightening the feed, but also sooo many other colours gracing your gardens.

Let’s keep sharing joy and positivity in this corner of our virtual world. See you next time 👋

A few people have asked about my camellia regime. I water throughout the year with a last good soak Sept/ Oct. Also give an ericaceous feed once a year. If yellow leaves or blossom drop problems, I make up a sulphur mix in a watering can & completely drench the foliage & soil. 🌱 #GardensHour

A twig covered with small white blossoms with slightly pink centres

The Prunus incisa 'Kojo-no-mai' has blossomed #GardensHour 🌱

Cherry plum blossom

Hellebore

Dead hedge

I had a busy week in the garden. I made a dead hedge, pricked out some wallflower, allysum and gypsophilla seedlings and sowed tomatoes, Centauria and verbena bonariensis. #GardensHour

Two spires of electric blue/purple star-like Hyacinth flowers edged with pale blue stripes.

Hyacinths doing their fabulously fragrant flowery thing... just before they topple over #GardensHour 🌱

That's a perennial problem for me too, the foliage is lovely though even if it doesn't flower (mine hasn't yet).

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Only ten minutes left #GardensHour

Yeah it’s been very foggy and slightly cooler the last couple of days, but I don’t think we are getting the cold spell some parts are. Sun due out again this week, so I’ll keep my eyes peeled! Just had a moth try to make my house its home for the night - though not sure that counts 🤣 #GardensHour

That was Wednesday last week, weather turning again now though so hopefully it'll find somewhere to hunker down

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Three pale blue star-like Chionodoxa flowers with dark blue stripes.

It's a miracle - the slimey plant assassins of the night have left the Chionodoxa flowers alone this spring #GardensHour 🌱

Pale pink six petalled Hellebore with dark purple at the centre and creamy large stamens

This 'Sugar Plum' Hellebore flower decided it wasn't content with the usual 5 sepally-petally thing & opted for 7 instead! #GardensHour 🌱

We had snow again last week, so not sure i dare to start planting anything out yet. But there are signs of spring! #GardensHour

Barrel pond

I returned my plants to my barrel pond today after over wintering them in a greenhouse, hoping they'll get going a bit quicker than normal this way, I have some water forget-me-nots, an iris, some miniature reed mace, some spiral juncus and a miniature water lilly 😀

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White and yellow narcissis standing tall on sturdy green stems backlit by sunlight, seen from below with blue sky background

So many narcissus flowering past their prime in the garden centre last week.

Glorious backlit by sun light tho ☀

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A dark purple hellebore flower with black speckles

Crocus flowers

Lots of purple crocus flowers

A panda crocus flower

One word to describe my garden this week? Maybe “purple” is a good one? Hellebores and crocus are still going strong and I forgot to take a picture of my hyacinths but they’re coming out too #GardensHour 🌱

Ornithogallum umbellatum. Garden star of Bethlehem in full bloom. Very reliable returners which spread. 🌱 #GardensHour

Two determined pot plants for #gardenshour this week: chive that was given to me by my neighbour (and had a dead blue tit half rotten in the tangle of leaves!) and the Moroccan daisy that didn't go to sleep this winter.

Hope you're all enjoying the start of the season 🐛

Amazing! I’ve not seen a butterfly yet this year! How exciting! #GardensHour

A small tortoiseshell butterfly on white Heather

It's been bringing in a ton of bumblebees, and this week a small tortoiseshell butterfly 🌱

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I cut all this heather back quite savagely in late summer last year, wasn't sure if I'd maybe gone too far but it seems to have been the right thing to do. 🌱

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Eight years ago I nearly removed this camellia as it was in a sorry state (inherited when I moved in) Yellow leaves & a few blooms which dropped almost immediately. Tlc of sulphur washes & late September waterings & look at it now! #GardensHour 🌱

Some Hyacinth orientalis from my garden #gardenshour

‪Evening #GardensHour it’s still pretty damp outside so I haven’t done much out there, but the inside seed sowing continues; this week, these ‘Red Midget’ (Ratibida columnifera). Haven’t grown them before but I thought they looked fun!‬

This well established clematis has wound its way up through the fig tree. Inherited so unsure of variety. 🌱 #GardensHour

I’ve never noticed the amount of heather around until this year. Not sure why it’s suddenly standing out to me! #GardensHour

Very close up shot of the flowering tip of a sprig of winter heather bearing a cluster of small white urn shaped flowers

White winter heather 🌱

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But I’ve planted out some cowslip and foxglove plugs, done a touch of rockery repair, and got my first lot of seeds in the propagator. It’s all coming along - really want to get stuck in to the weeding, but the mornings are still too cold. #GardensHour

Good evening #GardensHour. My one word = Preparation. If you know, you know 🌱

After such a gloomy winter, it did me so much good to see these gorgeous crocuses come up! For some reason, crocuses in these beautiful colours really resonate with me, as familiar from my early childhood. Just love them!💛💜🤍
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Been here a little while! It’s still building, but getting better all the time #GardensHour