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.

Yellow azaleas do smell gorgeous, rather like ylang ylang. We planted one a couple of years ago, it's not very big yet - we make sure we go to some 'stately hall' type gardens to inhale.

Our clematis Montana should be flowering before too much longer, I love its vanilla scent.

Azaelia lutea. Grows like a weed, smells beautiful.

In my garden, its the tulips, the daphne, and the big flower buds...

This at the moment. First of many

The acers (DH is obsessed with them) are almost all in leaf now and look great.

My absolute favourite thing though is a eucalyptus in a pot which I bought at a country show when DS was 2 (he’s 25 now). It’s died back three times but always comes back to life. I love its fluttering grace and its silvery colour and the pink of the new growth . There are pale pink tulips round it just now and I love the combination of colours.

Scented roses bring me great joy too.

I'd never thought of growing a birch or a eucalyptus in a pot. Very tempting!

Is that a mecanopsis @MaxandMeg ? Lovely!

My magnolia tree. It's about 50ft tall and stunning in the spring.
I have a large pink hydrangea in a pot. The blooms are a really vivid bright pink in July/august then change to a deep burgundy red during Aututum. I used some to make an Autumn and Christmas wreaths last year so despite flowering in summer it was the gift that kept giving!

Wow! A fifty foot magnolia tree sounds wonderful. I visited Bute Park in Cardiff recently and they have about a dozen planted together like an orchard and they were so beautiful.

I love everything in my garden as I have never been able to grow anything until now.

Currently loving my cherry blossom but my Geums are just about to start flowering and they are my absolute favourite things ever. So cheery and wonderfully prolific.

Oh I've just fallen in love with some geums called apricot pearl and ordered them for next year @TwigTheWonderKid . What are yours like?

I love my wisteria........ it took 21 years to flower!

It began flowering in 2019 - this year it seems it is going to better than ever as there are more flowers than leaves.

I've got Mai Tai, Totally Tangerine and Scarlet Tempest but I think I will join you in the Apricot Pearl this year, they are lovely!

We have a lone robin, he or she follows me round rhe garden, so if I go to thr garage it comes with me, perches up outside, and waits till I finish and comes back with me. Last week I went into the garage and it came in too, then pooped on the wall as it sat on a shelf. I wasn’t best pleased. Such nosey tame little birds. I’m always astonished, I see it in on the patio , I go somewhere else in the garden, and it flies over, and sits watching me, then comes back and sits on a plant or screen on the patio when I come back,. As said,,nosey and tame.😍

My little clump of snowdrops under a tree by the garden gate.
I dug them up when we sold my childhood home (with a few other things) after my DM was killed in an accident.
She loved gardening and I think of her when they start poking through every year.

That's a lovely way to remember her @cptartapp . I find gardens are one thing that really bring my mum back to me. She always used to grow pinks for me. I'm trying to find some similar at the moment but none smell as good.