Six on Saturday. Spring Fever.

Well the Erodium cicutarium go ahead to dark so at last we can really say that it is spring . Yippee ! But the discriminating hint does n’t finger very natural spring - like and it has created rather fuzzy photo , but never thinker we have to celebrate the garden in its leap party finery and if the photos are a snatch bleary it is because the flowers are dance .

My number one is this really pretty little peach tree .

When I was a child my grandmother grew a peach tree diagram from a stone and every year it was loaded with voluptuous fruit . My endeavours to grow peach trees have all end dismally until I see this wonderfulPrunus persica‘Meldred ’ . The reason for my failure have all been because of peach leaf curl , cause by the fungusTafrina deformans . This fungus is make by rain falling on the tree in spring and the leave curling disease step down the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree each year until it dies . This tree is dwarf and lives in a dope in the greenhouse where spring rainwater ca n’t get at it . I brought it out today to photograph it and to give the bees a chance to pollinate the flower . I would produce this tree for the lovely dark pink efflorescence alone but in later summertime it gives me little but very juicy yield .

Flowering currants are ubiquitous and I have kept one of the shocking pink one which seed everywhere and was all over the garden and I also grow several different form which are more sophisticated . But I am very fond of this whitened unfolding one which flower before the bud on the pinkish one open up . It is calledRibes sanguineum‘White Icicle ’ which seems a good name for it .

I love early cherry red blossom and I also get laid dainty blossom rather than the bountiful blowsy ones that bloom later . genus Prunus incisa‘Kojo - no - mai ’ fits the posting absolutely . The name means ‘ Flight of Butterflies ’ which is a beautiful verbal description for the masses of touchy little flowers . This is a dwarf shrub and it baby-sit perfectly in my wintertime garden because even when it is not in bloom the zigzag sprig of the bare limb look lovely .

A favourite bush in March is the lovelyStachyurus praecoxwhich has racemes of primrose yellow , bell -shaped flowers like strings of beads swing from each unembellished outgrowth . I think Americans call this ‘ Spiketail ’ but I bid they would n’t , it is such an ugly name for such delicate beauty . In a previous garden I had a stachyurus with attractively variegated farewell in summertime after it had finish flower . It was calledStachyurus‘Magpie ’ and I have never been able to find it since I will . I am still endeavor to hound it down .

I do it any sort of sweetened pea type flower and the little recurrent spring- flowering one is a gem . It is calledLathyrus vernus‘Alboroseus . The peak are pinkish and ashen and the ball fetch bigger every year . I also have the purpleLathyurus vernusbut it always blossom a bit later . Occasionally , you get seedling . Bees love this flora and so do I.

checkered lily are amongst my favourite outpouring flowers and I have quite a few dissimilar varieties but the first one into bloom isFritillaria imperialis‘Early Fantasy ’ I love Crown Imperials and I have clumps of them brush up the garden in red , orangish or yellow but this swell one is new to to me this year . I just bought the one to see what it is like but next class I shall have to empty out the piggy bank and have a giving ball of them . It is so pretty .

I like it against the cinammon -coloured barque ofAcer griseumwith a pocket billiards of apricot violet at its feet .

So here are my six on Saturday to join in withThe Propagatorand his ever grow stria of enthusiastic followers who find interesting horticultural thing to share with us each Saturday . Do go and see .

46 Responses toSix on Saturday. Spring Fever.

I ’m so covetous , Chloris . Fritillaria , in particular , is a plant I ’ve always look up to but it ’s well out of bounds here . I ’ve kill Ribes sanguineum once or twice , in all probability causing it to die of thirst , and have had to make do with the much less striking Ribes viburnifolium . I inherit a noID flowering peach tree diagram with the garden , inexplicably planted on the back slope by a prior owner . It ’s never bring on viable fruit . It get from leaf curl last yr and I spray it during dormancy – your situation is a monitor that I should watch on it . perchance the copper spray – and our exceptionally humble rainfall – will make a difference this year .

A peach of a peach Chloris 😄 That fritillaria imperialis is such an attractive color – so much more appealing than the Orange River . Worth emptying the piggy back for .

I eff these “ six on Saturday ” post . One of these days , I ’ll have to join in . All your flowering trees and shrubs are lovely – I truly ca n’t pick a pet . glad bound !

Six on Saturday. Spring Fever.