What thing do you love in your garden?

[MerylSqueak]

In praise of lovely plants! Which ones bring you joy?

Hooray for the chocolate chip aguja I have planted in a shady area. Spreads nicely, looks good all year and I like the flowers. It's a right little trooper.

Hooray for the floribunda rose The Fairy. It's neat and compact and flowers like mad.

Hooray for the anemone blanda I have near my pond and am really looking forward to seeing how my fern and astilbe arrangement works out.

Also a cheer for the random hellebore I bought. It's given such good value.

Gah. I meant things.

I have 2 different Heuchera... lovely plants

And a Polemonium? Otherwise known as Jacobs ladder....never lets me down

My beautiful white wisteria. Stunning and scented. I look forward to it every year.

Oo wisteria. I wish I had a place for one.

My Brunnera - purchased for the silver-veined foliage, but loving the blue forget-me-not flowers it's got blooming at the moment.

For a similar reason, my blueberry bushes. Selected for the fruit, but provide an impressive autumn show when the leaves change colour.

i love my Daphne. Planted it just over a year ago and it has thrived. the flowers are beautiful and smell amazing 🥰

I only have a small north facing yard but years ago I noticed this little weed growing in one of my pots. I kept forgetting to pull it up and it just grew and grew and I started to get curious and just left it. It's now grown into a beautiful Goat Willow and in a much bigger pot- it towers above me and at the moment is covered in pollen so it's loved by the bees too ❤️🌳

A determined little plant! ❤️

I love eg Fox gloves, all the various poison type ones, as they are quite intriguing.

Not that I have any, just those are the plants I like

We had a gorgeous wisteria at a previous house that DH killed by being sloppy with wood paint.

On the boundary of us and next doors there is a large magnolia tree. Planted long before we moved here. For two weeks it is stunning.

Mallow. I grew last years from my own seeds which made me happy.

The Bride… flowering now and mine has a lovely twisted woody tangle of stems below the White explosion of flowers, I look forward to it bursting in to flower every year!

My bbq area, it is built in brick and connects to my little herb garden so we can always have fresh herbs on hand for our bbqs. This year I am jazzing it up some more, with some festoon lights around the outside and potted dahliettas and hopefully some climbing jasmine if it ever flowers! My inspo is a really nice little cottage we stayed in in France once summer, although the flowers there were roses which I’ve never been able to grow!

Stocks!I adore the smell, on a warm summer evening I can even smell it from my bedroom which is a fair way up. I have several planters around the garden stuffed with them

So many, each in their season. At the moment, the pieris in a large pot on thr patio, right next to where I'm sitting now (indoors!), the 2 Bowles Mauve I finally got around to buying last autumn after meaning to for years, looking good among the self seeded forget-me-nots and honesty.

And the rockery at the front which we've recently totally redone, the saxifrages are the stars at the moment.

My cherry blossom trees are in full bloom at the moment. The white has just gone but had a fantastic April.
My pots of tulips make me smile every time I come home.

Right now - the primroses that are self seeded all over the garden but particularly under the cherry tree which is just coming into blossom and the yellow and pink look lovely together.
Also the hellebores that have been flowering for months and are still going strong.
Feeling sad that some of my tulips are finishing when they’ve been so pretty.

Right now the tiny little wood anenome. I adore them and have terribly sentimental reasons for wanting them. The bottom of my garden is essentially the edge of woodland and is gradually being made more natural. Several years ago I planted rhizomes and like rhizomes do they sulked and I had pretty much given up hope but this year I had one! Just one bit of brings me hope. In general that area is becoming beautifully woodland ish. It is covered in wild garlic too so it must smells like a wood.

I have some horrid Spanish bluebells inherited from owners past so this year I'm going to dig up each one i see so that one they are all gone I can put natives in.

Autumn flowering cherry
Snakes head fritillaries
lavender hedge
honeysuckle
a glorious pink rose that I've failed to identify

I have self-seeded yellow primroses too. I love them.

Our robot mower has a motor fault so is going back for repair and in the 2 weeks since he broke the lawn is full of daisies all flowering and it looks fantastic. Love them.

For proper flowers, agastache coming back and straw flower seedlings all coming along nicely. A perennial stock smells gorgeous, my cumin is flowering so will save the seeds for curries and my lemon verbena is all coming back. Love it all.

Violets have worked their way into my lawn and I love them

Magnolia in full flower. Most of my roses. The fennel, the fig and the fountain grass.
and the acer in a pot I’ve had for 15 years.

Japanese Maple .... looks stunning in a big pot on the decking