Saturday, 3 April 2021

Virtual Friday Forum on Good Friday 2021

Another Friday Forum catch-up allowing us to find out what is looking good just now in the gardens of our members plus Easter decorations for the house.

We had beautiful examples of a wide range of spring flowers and shrubs from pastel shades to vibrant colours.  Here are a few:

In Dorothy's garden

White flowering currant

 Pulmonaria

 Helleborous

In Kate's garden

Trillium chloropetalum ‘Album’ ?

Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’ with Millium effusum ‘Aureum’ and ‘Brazen Hussy’

Camellia ‘Silver Wedding’

Ipheion ‘Alberto Castillo’

The heron keeping an eye on the tadpoles!

A vase of spring flowers from Linda's garden

Flowering Blackcurrant, Polyanthus, Marsh Marigold, Muscari, Bergenia, Bowles Mauve and Daffies Talia and Minnow.

If you are interested in Erythroniums, this link takes you to a talk with Keith Wiley and Carol Klein.

(82) Keith Wiley's Erythronium - YouTube

… and finally, I thought this poem by Robert Frost sums up  the weather in April.

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March."
-  Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time, 1926