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I love these delicate flowers - we seem to have one left in the garden!!!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments. They made me smile after what has seemed to be an endlessly wet winter!
The garden is beginning to look better now and hopefully the sky will become bluer and we can all really enjoy the spring.
xxx

Chris, I'm just loving your lilacs, pinks, mauves etc!!!! Gorgeous blooms you have!
Everything looks so floriferous in your garden, I'm envious! It's bursting with flower and colour. Such a pretty sight.
I do hope you've enjoyed a lovely Easter weekend!!!

Pretty form to it too, Janey. I've Orange Dream, it's planted out in the ground. Does fabulously well, thankfully!!!

That's a pretty little one, Sheila! You've such a pretty garden.

Pretty little blossom tree! Looks right at home there, with the fab photinia hedge backdrop.

Lovely blog, Sheila! Your garden is definitely alive with Spring blossoms and colour!!! Your Pieris has that wow factor. I hope you enjoyed some good clement Easter weather! It's been pretty nice here too, until today. But, good weather predicted for the next few days!!! Happy gardening!

A wow from me, Rose! You have a lot of pretty and glorious colour there!!!! It sure was a lovely Easter weekend, it definitely feels like Spring has sprung in to action now! Your camellia is so vivid!!! Quite a perfect purchase too!

So very pretty.

Lovely decorative tray display, Klahanie. Love your Easter innovation.

I must agree!!! Gorgeous Spring colour combo, Karen. Perfectly pretty!

It's fabulous Julia!

The ruffles are an interesting variation.

That must be an amazing sight!

Thanks, Janey and Sheila.

Looking so colourful and really lush.

Thanks Balcony and Klahanie.

https://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/258836-alocasia-odora-elephant-s-ears

A cluster growing in Hawaii.

Thank you for all your lovely comments and like to see my garden. Sorry I am only just rereading through them.
I hope everyone has had a really nice Easter. Lots of chocolate for the chocoholics and flowers for everyone else. We had all the family here so it’s been a bit hectic but I am always so happy to have them here all together.
We got to mow the overgrown raggy lawns yesterday and its made a vast difference. It’s so good to be gardening again.

Sorry I missed this Julia but thank you and I hope you enjoyed the Easter weekend too. That's a gorgeous arrangement and the blue glass makes it pop even more.
Goodness was Sheila still in England??
Little bouts of sun here in-between slabs of grey cloud, but I was busy in the GH sowing Pacino sunflowers..:)

Nice and bright Julia.

I like theProstranthera, very pretty. Nice colour in your gdn at present.Ty for posting.

Great blog Ange. Love your “dahlia” Cookie, and love your “supermarket” Spiraea. I agree how satisfying it is when seeds actually germinate … I sowed some Gypsophila in my raised bed a week ago and was thrilled to see tiny growth this morning. You sound very cheerful even with so much to do, but we all like to get busy in our gardens, and we have been lucky with the milder Easter weekend.

Thanks Julia. We inherited the hedge actually, but do like it.

Many thanks Rose and David!

I love to see what is flowering in your garden, Wildrose! 👍

You have so much going on in your garden, Sheila! 👍

Lovely to see so many spring flowers in your garden, Rose! 👍

Beautiful flowers, Wylie! 👍Your Amaryllis is lovely! My first 3 Amaryllis have now finished but I have another two with buds, one of which is opening now. The other one will take much longer in flowering.

Interesting to read about the earth tremors, Wylie. I've never experienced one in all my life.

It's a lovely hellebore, Klahanie! 👍

Thank you, Meadowland! Hope you are having a good time as well! Sunny & windy here but n rain.

No worries, Janey! It's good to see how people care for their plants & what they do!

My method is the same for ALL my plants, just give them water occasionally & a bit of fertilizer in the summer.

I never dunk my orchids in water, nor do I use orchid fertilizer. They sit all the time they are not flowering a WNW window. The windows are double-glazed so no danger of them getting frosted during the worst of the winter chills nor are draughts a problem.

I have 1 more orchid that also has a scape (flower stem without leaves) which has plenty of buds but won't open its flowers for a couple of months yet.

Thank you, Lindak! I've never grown this variety before now & it looks every bit as stunning as the picture on the packet!

Thank you, Klahanie! This is the third time it's flowered for me I think! There are woody rests of previous flowering stems at the very base of the plant.

Thanks Linda for all the info....I do like the white ones..:)
Sorry Balc if we've taken this over..

It is going to look lovely when it starts to get bigger Janey.

Your photos are great Sheila
and they are all looking lovely!

I am sure you will have more blue skies soon Chris!
I had the same jasmine in my conservatory but it just grew too huge and was fastening itself round the blinds, so, it had to go!

It's very unusual, flowering spasmodically from December to April. I wonder if there is any other plant that does that??

Thanks Ange.

They are a plant that grows in trees Janey, so if you give them too much water they rot. When the flowers on the stem have finished, I cut the stem to the next notch down. If the leaves die back and go yellow I cut them off. If it's healthy you should have green roots emerging over the top of the pot.

How lovely they must look Ange. We don't seem to get many slugs and I put that down to my hedgehogs...

Thanks Seaburn. It does make you feel better when spring flowers are here.
And lovely to have sun at last!
Thank you Sheila.
Hello Janey, yes it certainly has at last!
Such a shame about the Doronicums.
Thank you Paul.
Hello Chris, hopefully it will get drier for you soon!
I love the Amalenchiers and used to have six down the path at Willow Cottage.
Thanks Karen. It is just starting to get more showy now, but being next to the hedge needs to get a bit taller so that it stands out. I couldn't find anywhere else in the garden to put one.
Oh I am sure you will be able to do that job Davey..once you get stuck into it.
There are quite a few things that I could have done easily a few years ago, but not now although I do have a go.
Strange about your camelias and I have to wait a couple of years before mine get a lot more flowers.
Thanks Ange. I wonder why that is!

These are another flower in my garden that is being nibbled away! I shall enjoy yours, Linda. I do prefer the white ones, the others are quite drab, I think. There is a field full of them not far from us: they are an annual attraction!

I inherited an Orange Dream. It's enormous! But it has been a round for a few years. It's spring colouring is attractive.

I did see that Ange. I’m liking his garden more now it has less hedging!

Goodness Linda, I think I might try one again then. My kitchen window faces east so good for the winter site, if not a bit chilly? My main room is west facing with lowish light. I think maybe the watering was the issue.

Yes it does, it's a super little tree, I wouldn't be without it. I do like the daintiness and the winter flowers of the autumnalis though..

Such lovely plants you have! And I envy the view from your window!

We soak our orchid in a jugful of rainwater with an orchid feed then take it out and let the water drain away.
We place it in part sun part shade on the kitchen window in the winter, and in the summer it goes into a shady position in the conservatory. We let the plant dry out and the bark is dry again then give it another go in the jug. We had three flowerings last year and one this year.