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Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica in the woods
Carpet of Vinca
Corydalis cheilanthifolia
The Spring Corner (under the Yew tree)
Sunny Tulips
Pulsatilla vulgaris ‘Rubra’
Wordless Wednesday: Spring Flowers
I love the spring flowers especially in the dappled light.
We have actually had very strong sunlight recently – but under the Yew tree it is nice and shady. 🙂
Very beautiful Cathy!! I love all of your flowers, the slide show is cool 🙂 You are about 2-3 weeks ahead of us. Enjoy your evening!
Thanks Michael! I have plenty of these early tulips so my tulip season lasts until May. The Hepatica and Vinca were actually fairly late this year.
What delightful spring flowers you have. The hepatica are lovely, I really must try to find some to put in my garden. I love the Spring Corner mix of bulbs – so cheerful!
Thanks Eliza! That spring corner looks lovely now, but in summer it is hard to grow anything in dry shade there, so it will be a challenge to improve on it for this coming year!
Maybe you can do containers? but there’d still be the watering to do, which can become onerous by the end of the summer, I suppose. Dry shade is a challenge!
Watering is a problem, so I will have to put my thinking cap on!
Maybe this link might help? http://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/perennials/tough-perennials-that-grow-in-dry-shade/
Thank you so much Eliza! Yes, a few good ideas there. Especially the geraniums which do well in various other parts of the garden. 🙂 Ajuga grows wild everywhere here, and Lamium too, but I also like the idea of spurge. Thanks!
You’re welcome. I, too, love all the different geraniums – they are beautiful and so hardy. I’ve seen them growing in a gravel driveway next to a blistering hot stone wall – talk about tough! My favorites are G. macrorrhizum, sanguineum var. lancastriense, ‘Johnson’s Blue’ and cantabrigience. I also grow G. phaeum and renardii, which are less typical. Good growers all.
You’ve convinced me! I can feel a Geranium post coming on too, as I do have several and the G. sanguineum var. lancastriencse has just gone on my wishlist! 🙂
Lovely, Cathy!
Thanks Benjamin!
So lovely spring flower photos, Cathy! I´m happy that spring finally has arrived…
Happy spring to you, too!
Thank you Elizabeth. Lovely to hear from you!
Aren’t they gorgeous? Here’s to spring and all its welcome beauty.
I second that! Thanks Sarah!
A woodland in spring- wonderful. Is that a Pasque flower, if so I haven’t seen that colour before. It is a plant I should search for, thanks for reminding me.
Yes, Pasque flowers grow wild here but are then usually bluish-mauve. I have this red one as well as a purple and white one. They are pretty robust and amazingly survive dry heat all summer and still look good. The seedheads are a show for many weeks.
You have a beautiful woodland setting. I always admire your hepatica.
They are quite something, aren’t they! And a few wild ones have found their way into the garden, under the fence! 🙂
I am envious of your woodland Cathy, it looks so inviting. I love the hepaticas too, are they scented?
The scent is elusive Julie. I have only smelt them fleetingly on a warm windstill day. If I stick my nose in one, nothing! Many people dispute the fact that they smell at all, but it is a wonderful sweet fragrance. 🙂
What a beautiful slideshow. I can see you can grow wonderful hepaticas and the Pasque flower is stunning.
Thank you Chloris, although I can’t take credit for growing the Hepaticas as they are all wild. But I am pleased with the red Pasque flower which has been going strong for several years now. The blue ones grow on the hillsides here, but I rather like this red one.
I’m so glad you include the names on the slides–I don’t know Hepatica (I think that was it) at all! It’s such a sweet little blue flower. And it looks a bit like a wildflower. I also love your little spring corner! I’m sure you’re spending a lot of time in the garden right now and it shows. 🙂
Yes, Hepatica is a wild flower, and difficult to grow in a garden. The spring corner is always lovely and fades far too quickly, but there are still more tulips to come which I am looking forward to! It is lovely to be outdoors more often, but rather cool again today – just 10°C. Have a lovely weekend Debra!
Such wonderful spring flowers. I love the Hepatica and the Pulsatilla also.
I have got some smaller Pulsatilla plants in different colours, but this pinky red one is my favourite.
Spectacular! Amazing colours! 🙂
Just what we need in spring! 🙂
I can’t get enough of your pictures! The flowers are so beautiful. ❤
Thanks Tanja! Happy springtime!