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Mine wasn't too bad probably as it was mostly around the edge but some are much harder to get out arent they, hubby helps me thankfully, a daylily we split was quite tough :-)

Yes thanks Kate hope you are too, I work for NHS admin, always very busy so can imagine how busy you are, lovely to get in the garden 😊 x

A lovely tree.

All the shrubs seem have flowered very prolifically this year. The Forsythia was a riot, also Rosemary and Pieris also. Now Lilac is starting to bloom everywhere & it looks it might do also. Lovely time of year!

That would be the flower I would chose for Easter..sadly they don't like our garden.

Lovely pic, Karen. Looks a pretty variety too. Hope you have a good crop this year.

Pretty gorgeous this one. I love Rosemary and Lavender. I’ve a few Rosemary in bloom on the bund, they seem to do well there.

There was Kate. They do very well at school holidays.

:)

Thanks Shirley. I have never seen as many flowers on Rosemary. I kept them pretty dry all
winter and that seems to have worked.

Thank you Shirley. Happy Easter x

Hi Kate you've hit the nail on the head..Adam was so good last week..I felt I learnt so much.

Good plan!

Happy Easter Kate. Love the Pasque flowers!

Thanks Shirley but don't expect it to be this year. I may decide to move it into a pot.

Thanks Shirley and Grandad gardener. As my raised beds are in a part of the garden where birds don't go Grandad G, I think I will have to use nematodes.

Ditto for vine weevil grubs. If it's a large area, you may find nematodes an expensive option.

Can you try to encourage birds & beetles to get them?

Thanks kindly, Sue, hope you are keeping well?
We’re getting there at work, still lots of things to catch up on, assessments and new patients..not enough hours in the day.
We think we’ll be back to our norm by end of June 🙏
Hope your Easter weekend is nice with your family, you’ve had a difficult time in the past year or more xx

Thank you, Jane. Busy times!! Hope you’re doing ok 😊x

Gorgeous pic!!! I can only imagine the fragrance and the bees buzzing! Idyllic.

A wow from me too! I’ve a few here but they are very slow to spread.
This one looks gorgeous!

I shall cut it back at the end of may/June time.

Looks a lovely day out, Karen. Pleased you managed to take some pretty pics. Good to hear they had plenty of activities for children at Easter time too! Something for everyone to enjoy.

Thanks Balcony. The bees like it.

Very pretty, Sheila. It’s a favourite of mine, which I’d some space to plant one. I do like it in leaf too.

Looks healthy too, Julia! Gorgeous view also 😊

I was baffled watching GW and this was his plan. I love cats and dogs, having a border collie growing up and now a cat..but, this was definitely not one for me. I’ve grown more and more disinterested in Monty and his ideas and advice. I don’t like his garden and Adam Frost was brill the week before, presenting.

My dad had a Daphne in the San Francisco Bay Area many years ago. It was extremely fragrant.

My backyard yard is overwhelmingly fragrant right now. There’s many Angels Trumpets, Gardenias and Capulin cherry (or evergreen tropical cherry) flowers.

Klahanie,

Happy Easter 🐣!

I think there’s three or four types of hummingbirds that are native. They live here year round and in middle January they collect the lint from the dryer vents around here. It’s fun to watch.

This is a very rare plant from Huila, Columbia. It just started flowering a few days ago.

As a rule I don’t collect volcanic plants. 😂 Most probably wouldn’t do well here.

I know it taste very similar to a mangosteen. However, I’ve never tasted one.

This tree is my experiment (just like my mangosteen tree). I know people grow them in San Diego, but it’s a pretty rare tree here. It’s very tropical with extremely high water demands to grow well.

I really struggled to split mine using two forks back to back yesterday - it was such a dry clump! Luckily my friend managed to help (much stronger than me!) 🙂.

Wonderful.

David, I don't think there was a single sport I enjoyed at school!

Thanks Julia,

Rose, this has always been in a pot, now it has moved up to a bigger one with Ericaceous soil and is doing well.
I hope yours has some buds before too long.

Rose, that looks like the grub of a Vine Weevil and I found this information for you:

Use biological controls – nematodes are effective in killing the larvae in the soil, both in beds and containers, during the warmer months when the soil is at least 5°C. Apply a liquid drench to the compost – this kind of pesticide can be applied to compost in containers and will control the larvae.

Quite agree Rose!

I didn't have any success years ago.. if memory serves me right Sheila has one??

Yes David, maybe the very wet early Spring weather made a difference. We’re benefiting from the lovely blossom anyway!

I particularly like Mexican orange blossom! It was one of the first shrubs I ever grew about 60 odd years ago! Yours is wonderful, Shirley!

This is a beautiful Gladiolus, Wylie! :)

Are you now into collecting "volcanic" plants, Andy??? :D :D :D

It's a lovely Clematis, Lindak! :)

I've had to water my pots almost as if it were summer! Yet not many weeks ago we were all complaining about the rain we had been having! Even a couple of pots of Pansies on top of the balcony railing collapsed because I didn't realise they were so dry!

All flowering trees do seem to have done better this year! I nearly missed out this year on taking photos of the Magnolias when they were in bloom! I think that was because I took a different route to town for a couple of weeks this year & so missed the trees I would normally photograph!

There is a fantastic old Magnolia tree that grows in a garden only a few doors up from where a girlfriend I had nearly 60 years ago used to live. I've taken photos of the tree every year for the last 20 at least & I very nearly missed it! I did get a couple of photos but lots of the flowers had fallen off & the leaves had started to grow.

Thanks very much Klahanie. The flowers are even prettier close-up but K took the photo so I’m not going to say anything!

I saw it again this morning & it's a real picture! :)

I can fully commiserate with you, Shirley, nothing on the physical education side of school ever interested me & I would have gladly stayed in the classroom & read a book rather than do anything physical! When the other boys had to choose their team members for any team game - who was the last one they wanted??? :D :D :D

Now that you have identified it I can see that it is a photo of Forsythia flowers! Probably being as the photo was so close to the flowers I couldn't make them out.