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.

My daffodils. They win trophies 🏆

Right now my Acers look fantastic, my cherry tree is covered in blossoms and my heuchera is turning gorgeous colours. I have grown tulips for the first time and I'm really happy with how Queen of the night have turned out.

Year round I have a pink cordyline, a monkey puzzle tree and an olive tree that always make me smile.

I'm looking forward to my Albizia Summer Chocolate and my Tamarix Tetranda bringing their beautiful colours to the garden.

Berry catchfly, Silene baccifera. A lovely lime green annual which scrambles over bushes in a shady corner, flowers which are good close up but not showy enough to detract from the lime green-ness. But as it moves into late summer, it becomes covered with shiny black berries, and a purple colour begins at the shoot tips and starts working its way down - a very “tasteful” pairing. It’s not going to dominate a garden, but it’s a delight to seek out on one’s morning pootle around the garden

My snapdragon 'Apple Blossom'; they flower for ages if you dead head them and are so, so pretty- the pictures in the catalogue never do them justice!
Also my gardenia 'Crown Jewel'; the foliage is so elegant, and the scent of the flowers in summer is just heavenly!

My bright tulips and hornbeam that line my driveway make me happy everytime I pull up. Also my purple magnolia tree in the back garden. We moved from a house with only concrete out the front and no decent borders to this house which has a modest size garden BUT is much more suited to planting things. I'm a novice still but I love it so much.

Wisteria round rhe house which is just considering blooming, loads of buds.
clematis round rhe door. Early spring blooms and so pretty.
camelias, lots of spring blooms.
Tall bamboo in pots, about 12 foot high now, on the patio.very impactful.
azaleas, a riot of colour late spring.
climbing roses, we have several varieties on fences, all repeat flowering. No blooms yet, but in full leaf. When they do come in it’s all summer long. I’m not a fan of shrub roses at all, but climbing roses are a different animal and have bought another two bare root from David Austin.

Spruce/fir in my new back yard that I have worked out must be responsible for the lovely fresh smell I am getting on my line-dried laundry.

Oo that sounds nice.

I'm busy googling all these lovely plants.

I've planted an autumn flowering cherry last year and it's looking really happy - can't wait for it to mature.

I also planted a sango kaku acer against a white wall so can see it from the dining table - it's just come into lime green leaf and is lovely.

The lavender hedges and the climbing roses are the best thing in my garden. I've got lots of David Austen climbers

Ooh! Which climbers did you go for? I'm thinking about getting one to climb up a wall.

I have a bright green Acer. The colour is extraordinary! @BarrelOfOtters

I have some glorious fringed gorilla tulips out at the moment- yes I did partly buy them for the name! They can’t cope with high wind but look amazing until the petals blow away.
Also a Salvia Hotlips that looked innocuous in its original pot- I really must learn to check for projected growth… The herby scent is divine, enough to forgive it for the fact it has taken over a sizeable chunk of my raised bed, crowding out everything within a couple of metres despite the fact that I hack it back to a 6 inch stump every year.

Whispering this but - variegated ground elder. A surprise hit; looks lovely and bright in a dark corner and infinitely more controllable than the bloody weed version

My teucriums are the gifts that keep giving. They seem to flower and thrive all year round and grow like billy-o. Sometimes I feel
Slightly sorry for them when everything else is having its winter rest!

What a lovely idea for a thread. My acers are my favourite plants. They're so vibrant and I love watching the colours change throughout the year.

A massive Albertine rose that covers the back of the house - had it about 8 years

A Philadelphus bush whose scent is the most powerful thing in the garden

An acer tree we bought when DS was 2. He’s 20 this year and it’s 25ft now 😁

My 16 year old Sarah Bernhardt peony, it's my absolute pride and joy garden wise!

My rhubarb , it’s lovely

Gosh I feel very amateur reading all these! That said I’m proud of my first tulips and my French lavender has filled the barrel out really nicely and looks quite professional!!

I also have a lovely Japanese maple but I inherited that so can’t really claim credit.

I am learning a lot too. It's lovely. I'm very interested in @faffadoodledo 's teucriums. There see to be lots of different sorts.

@LadyGardenersQuestionTime on another thread, posters were marvelling at Ground Elder being sold. Obviously it has its uses

I've got Sandra Bernhardt's coming up this year that never gave before. I bought them years ago in the sale section but they haven't done anything until I dug them up and replanted them more shallowly.

I have a bit of a blue project going on at the moment, so particularly love the forget me nots, brunnera and lithodora. Looking forward to my ceanothus, anchusa and lobelia coming into flower.

I also like the reds of the heuchera, pieris and photinia and the silvers of the cinneraria, cotton lavender and helichrysum.

My forsythia is looking beautiful and yellow at the moment. As is the Spirea bridal wreath.

I love this time of year!

My magnolia tree.

My Lilacs. I have a lilac one and a white one. Both bought as small-ish shrubs about five years ago and they’ve done brilliantly. I just don’t want them to get much higher than they are now. Loads of buds in them, compared to the drawl one that I have in a pot which is pretty much in full flower already.

Come early summer, I will wax lyrical about my perennials - I love lupins and foxgloves. And hydrangeas too.

Come mid summer, I will be admiring my agapanthus, astrantia and phlox.

And come late summer, I will be loving my salvias and gauras.

And then it will be all about colour over autumn/winter. And then spring bulbs …

Its too hard to choose just one!

The hosta I thought had died by slug.
The grass, less than 2 years ago our garden was all gravel but now it's green and nice.
My red robin.

I love my cherry blossom tree. It is so beautiful in pale pink 🌸 blossom. It usually flowers the first week of May, but this year it was very early and flowered the last week of March which I have never seen before.