Long post warning! Today was my first day back ‘at work’ after a week off, so I decided to cheer myself up by photographing all the different types of flower in my garden. There were more than I’d realised!
First up: the Welsh poppy. I have a bunch of these, in various shades of yellow and orange
Next, pansies! Adorning a multitude of pots and window boxes. Bought half-dead from the Spar the day before we all went into lockdown - they’ve revived well!
Next on the list, bluebells, out early this year. These are Spanish bluebells. I do also have a few natives tucked away in odd corners, but they aren’t out yet
My gorgeous coronilla citronella, currently home base to a colony of ladybirds. Flowers all winter, October till May, without fail. The bees love it
Also Mecca for bees is Erysimum Bowle’s mauve, which flowers pretty much all year round, 12 months straight. I’ve had flowers on this one for six years and counting!
Next, the humble primrose. This one needs to be divided once the flowers start to fade - I can probably get four plants off the one clump here
Here’s a cluster of forget-me-not, which tends to wander pretty much wherever it feels like, really, from year to year. It started out in a pot, then seeded itself into the patio, and from there into the path, before finally establishing a foothold in the actual flower bed at last!
Ajuga (bugle) - this, again, tends to wander around the garden wherever it feels like. Good ground cover, popular with bees
Rosemary - it has usually gone over by now, but still going strong
osteospermum, first of the season, just beginning to open
Pulmonaria, going over now but still a few flowers hanging on
Aquilegia (columbine) - these are out fairly early this year
My little clematis majojo is beginning to go over now, but still beautiful
Some consider it a weed, but I’m growing it as a native wildflower: Campion - really hard to photograph on a windy day!
Bacopa, old and straggly but still flowering like mad
And because I’m encouraging a wildlife lawn and practicing weed tolerance, here’s some daisy
Not pictured, because the damn camera wouldn’t focus: arenaria, armeria, alyssum, sweet woodruff, periwinkle, helichrysum and bergenia
That’s…a lot of flowers, and it’s still only April! My aim has always been to have something in flower all year round and it is paying off - the garden is a constant hum of bees already, and I’m starting to get a few early butterflies in as well!
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