Spring Flowers 2013

[Barbara]

[Barbara]

[Tig]

Some lovely ones you've got growing Barbara, I have the big doubles (Chuckles named them for me a few years back as Golden Ducat). The ones in the pic that is a bit fuzzy look stunning! Try again

I've got some flowering today which are cream recurved backs with a peach trumpet! Must have the name of them somewhere

[Geranium]

Apr 18, 2013 9:10:42 GMT Auricula said:

Love the top one Geranium is it an alpine?

Not really - it's a shade lover. I've got it in a double wall, but the others are all in the garden.  The best one is 'Cherry Ingram' - larger flowers, lovely blue.

 

Thank you all for the noms!

[Jasmine]

Pretty violas in the top pic on the page Barbara.

[Jilly]

I love the Geranium growing out of the wall Barbara, I love the way they put themselves in great places like that.

Tig, those Daffs with the peach trumpets are very pretty, was it you that got the reduced 40 mixed ones from T&M that I did, I've been really impressed with the mixture, I've just got some come out with orange trumpets & swept back petals.

[Tig]

I didn't buy that offer Jilly, just checked and I bought the 'spray collection' which comprised Prom Dance, Yazz and Regeneration and Twinkling Yellow, and I had Rainbow Butterflies Mix, and another called Shrike from them. I bought mixed bags from Homebase (which has included a few weird looking ones), and I've just checked my list of sale buys from Wyevales and found them - Cotinga

[Ladygardener]

Wonderful spring pics everyone. Barbara the little Viola are a gorgeous colour. Tig the daffs with peach trumpet are lovely, very different looking.

[Rosefriend]

Finally got a bit of colour in my garden..









RF

[Jasmine]

Spring has sprung in Germany Rosefriend. I love the flower in the bottom pic - can never remember its name

[Geranium]

That Doronicum is such  a sunny plant -





That's a Hepatica, Jasmine. Mine is almost over now.

EDIT: Photo added due to POTM confusion - RF

[Ladygardener]

  This is smashine Rosefriend. It did'nt take long once the snow disappeared for you to get some lovely colour.

EDIT: Changed to a POTM1 - RF

[Rosefriend]

Thanks folks - we seem to make a leap somehow from nothing to everything !!

RF

[Geranium]

I think I confused things - I'm sorry.  My nom was for the Doronicum, Rosefriend.

[Rosefriend]

Apr 19, 2013 6:43:04 GMT Geranium said:

I think I confused things - I'm sorry.  My nom was for the Doronicum, Rosefriend.

No problems Geranium - all sorted - thanks for posting about it!!

RF

[Tig]

Hurrah for RF - colour at last, and so pretty

I love these, must add them to my wish list

[Rosefriend]

Thanks Tig - if you find some at a reasonable price them grab them. I wanted a couple more and the ones that I saw were 7.99E each - 6.82Pounds !!!

I didn't bother...

RF

[Jasmine]

for the Hepatica! (Thanks Geranium )

[Jasmine]

Lots of daffodils!



Golden Amber



Feu de Joie, I had to wait a couple of years for these.  The bulbs came from Croft 16, a small holding in Scotland that specialises in historical daffodils, they had a write up a couple of years ago in The Garden and had no bulbs that year as they all got bought so they held my order until last autumn and then I got the bulbs I'd chosen!



Bath's Flame



Lucifer

[Jilly]

  
All the Daffs out together is such a joy to behold after the Winter we've had,  for these beauties & for the cloudless blue sky   

[Jasmine]

Thanks for the nom Jilly! I can't believe what a difference a week of better temperatures has done for the garden!

[Auricula]

Apr 20, 2013 17:03:07 GMT Jilly said:

  
All the Daffs out together is such a joy to behold after the Winter we've had,  for these beauties & for the cloudless blue sky   

 beautiful against the sky... really springlike 

[Jasmine]

Thanks for the nom Auricula - I was laying down on the grass to get that shot!

[TeeGee]

I was walking down the allotments today and spotted this bowl of tulips in a fellow allotmenteer's plot and just had to take a photograph of it.

Took it on my mobile phone camera

[Ladygardener]

from me Jasmine copy and paste is'nt working. You have a glorious display of Daffs, love the look of Golden Amber and the Feu de Joie was worth waiting on.

[Jasmine]

That's a lovely display of tulips TeeGee.

Thanks for the nom Ladygardener. I can't wait for the other Croft 16 daffodils to open - they are all so delicate!

[Rosefriend]

Apr 20, 2013 19:56:06 GMT TeeGee said:

I was walking down the allotments today and spotted this bowl of tulips in a fellow allotmenteer's plot and just had to take a photograph of it.

Took it on my mobile phone camera

Lovely photo TeeGee



RF

[Auricula]

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 from me 

[TeeGee]

Firstly thanks for the nominations, its made me feel guilty in so far as I only took the picture I didn't grow the flowers!

Passed them again today and saw how the cooler conditions and the lack of sun affected them!

This is the same pot on a different day and from a different angle;

[Tig]

Apr 20, 2013 19:56:06 GMT TeeGee said:

I was walking down the allotments today and spotted this bowl of tulips in a fellow allotmenteer's plot and just had to take a photograph of it.

Took it on my mobile phone camera

This is a glorious display Tee Gee

It doesn't matter that you didn't grow them, it was your picture and you shared it with us, and we like it!
The key rules with POTM are that it must be your photo and it must have been taken at the time of posting, not earlier in the year or the previous year.

What a wonderful selection of named daffs you have Jasmine - I think I may have some of the Bath's Flame, or something very similar. Feu de Joie is almost double isn't it?