Last Saturday, I posted my third collage of six wonderful plants in the garden on Twitter, coincidentally the photo of people's favourite, most commented on plant was larger than the others.
Soldanella is easy to grow in my garden, and reliably self seeds into other adjacent pots. I grow it in a pot because it does well in a pot and it means I don't lose it in the garden.
The second of my choice of six was this lovely white Dicentra or Lamprocapnos, not only did it look lovely in the front garden, but it has self seeded in the gravel so is especially favoured.
Above the Acer just about to burst into leaf was hard to photograph
That was my Soldanella photo before I put it into the collage
This Erythronium above has gorgeous spotted leaves and lovely white flowers, it pushed its way through a pile of compost a couple of weeks ago.
Planting Snakeshead fritillaries has been a thankless task over the years, usually I take them out of their pots, plant them in the ground and enjoy them for that year and never see them again. This year, the clump looks larger than I remember planting last year, and there are lots more flowers about to open. North Meadow near Cricklade is the place to see these flowers. It's worth looking at the website to find out when they are at their peak. The site was last updated on the 2 March when the field was flooded.
Tim thought this plant was invading the wood store and cut it hard back, it was in fact looking charming as it weaved its way in and out of the woodstore roof. I accidentally knocked the pot off the table yesterday and discovered the stems had no roots on, they were just sending buds out, so whether they will grow I don't know
I think this might be Narcissus 'Peeping Tom', bought from a rare Plant Fair like so many of these plants which give pleasure as each season comes round. I would have bought these at the Wells Rare Plant Fair, usually held in mid March. Sadly this Sunday's fair has had to be cancelled due to Coronavirus.
There were two other great things in the garden which weren't selected. they were these Trumpet Vine or Campsis cutting with buds on:
Last but not least is a glorious Primula with startlingly bright yellow/orange flowers, I must look through my record of plants bought and find out the name. I haven't got the national collection of Primulas, but I've got a lot.
With thanks as ever to the Propagator for his inspiration, here are his #SixOnSaturday: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/?ref=spelling
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