#cotswoldgarden

[fionagardens]

These are flowers from a young lilac tree, variety Katherine Hevemeyer. It smells absolutely delicious. In a few years, it should have grown enough for there to be spare blossoms to cut and bring indoors. I should have planted one years ago.

[fionagardens]

Snakeshead fritillary are quite hard to grow in the garden especially from bulbs. I think I planted some 18 years ago and they never came up. Then three clumps appeared in completely different places a decade later. Snakeshead fritillary don’t like getting dried out so they are great plants for a damp area and naturalise in slightly boggy grass. I live on top of of a hill of rock and so no boggy places here, it’s very very free draining! I also forget to water out of season plants in dry spells. So it feels a particular blessing that my three clumps come up each year. Undeserved.

[fionagardens]

Hyacinths. I added purple hyacinths this year and am very pleased with them. You need to plant hyacinth bulbs in the autumn (fall) when there is absolutely no trace of the hyacinths you already have. So to be able to see what I am doing, I grow the extra hyacinth bulbs in pots and transplant them into the border next to their friends when about to flower.

[fionagardens]

This is a purple periwinkle, normally periwinkles have soft blue flowers. They are quite invasive plants so I grow mine in a very dry spot under a thorn tree to contain its vigour. Nothing else would grow there so it’s a double win.

[hydrangearose2023]

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[fionagardens]

The sun has come out and my woodland anemones look a lot happier. Flowers seem to be taking a long time to get into their stride this spring. Last year we had a sudden heatwave in the UK at the time of year, but the sunny days are scarcer and flowers are more cautious in 2021.

[fionagardens]

A few months ago I wrote in my gardening notebook that in late September I should ‘move white peony’. When I read it last week I had absolutely no idea what I meant. What white peony? All the white peonies look fine to me. Then when I cleared old foliage to make a space to plant February crocus, I found the sad white peony in question, struggling under too much shade as a tree has grown over it. I’ve dug it up and put it in a big space with more sun. Peonies do not like being moved, so it will take a couple of years to perk up. But that’s better than it just not growing at all in the shadows. I need to write more descriptive notes in my notebook, that allow for my poor memory...

[fionagardens]

Aren’t these violas tiny and cute? Grown from seed outside and the cooling weather is slowing them down. Nowhere else to put them so the three that are ready are squatting with the lavatera in its pot.