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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.

Sunshine and showers (well, hail actually), this weekend. Your plants look mor advanced than mine, Rose. All looking good.

Did you see M. Don on GW? He was planting blue and yellow on the mound. An episode worth watching this time, I thought.

Thanks Janey, but your ‘snow showers’ has much thicker blossom! (have I remembered the right name?😕)

Well Meadowland, every good gardener needs a coffee break.......

Thanks Janey and Shelia.

Thanks Janey, I like the bronze leaves too 🙂.

It is a beautiful old pot and would make a nice statement piece.
There's an old hall and country estate not far from me and in the Victorian walled garden a row of the old rhubarb pots are busy forcing rhubarb every spring.

Beautiful!

I love this one. I always wished I had one here, but no room now..

A really pretty cherry tree Sheila..

Yes, I'll not be moving ferns again!
I bet you are loving all the beautiful places on your doorstep. Let's hope we get a few weeks of sun to dry things out!

Thanks Karen, yes it’s lucky how well the colours look together.

They are quite showy Karen..

Sheila, good you brought it with you and it's looking lovely. x

Hi Karen, pleased it's a fast grower, I'm quite chuffed with it..:)

Yes, it's a very nice shape too Julia. My Jordan is in leaf, but with the cold rain they're not fully open yet.

Yes, it is very young Karen! Perhaps it will bulk up after such a wet year so far …

Yes, gorgeous photo Linda …

Julia, my Jordan also in bud, but quite a bit bigger than last year … must like rain!

The blue flowers on a Rosemary are such a pretty, soft shade of blue. I like your coronilla very much, they do look lovely together.

Hi, I’m not sure how old this post is but I thought I would answer anyway in case anyone else stumbles across your question that is also looking for the same answer. Wood lice 100% eat the leaves of lupin. I went out to my mini greenhouse this morning quite early & although it was daylight and I saw about 15 of them on one lupin stem and they had munched almost all of the leaves. I moved them on and I hope they don’t return again by morning tomorrow

Garden looking lovely Rose, nice colour on the camelia flower, my camelia's have been strange this year, the one out the front garden has not yet flowered and the one out the back has masses of flowers, normally other way round, starting to get a bit of life in the garden now but in the middle of replacing 5 6ft fence panels and some posts where I am having to dig the old concrete up, notice not as agile as I was when done them last time, :) :)

I saw bluebells in a wood today! I was so excited to see them out so early! Your Jasmine is huge! The Prostanthera..wow, what a beauty!

Such a wonderful tree…if a little twiggy.

Love those leaves!

I had this in Scotland Jane.. a fast grower. I loved it.