Plant porn thread - what's looking lovely in your garden right now?

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I am currently smitten with all the geraniums, especially a beautiful purple one that is next to a yellow Welsh poppy. The dicentra spectabilis alba was gorgeous until the fox cubs rolled on it. Grrr.

it is nearly over now but my bleeding heart plant (don't know proper name) was beeyootifool and i hearted it ever so much. and now it is all pale and wilty

That is a dicentra spectabilis, MayorNaze. I heart mine too, fox cubs notwithstanding!

Rhodies and azaleas. Dull for most of the year but completely ott for these few weeks.

oh thank you i was surprised at how early t came back actually, it is the second year i have had it - went to check on it fter winter and it was rampant and almost flowering...this was well back in april as well

My dicentra is lookinggreat this year but for sone unknown reason when I got it I got a white one so I don't know if it'll stay for another year, white is a bit stark I think.

My perennial wallflowers are looking lovely.

None of my geraniums are flowering yet

veratrum
exchorda macrantha "the bride"
piptranthus laburnifolius
camassia

tulips
apple tree
wallflowers
bleeding heart
bachelor's buttons
bluebells

My camelia was fabulous

My geraniums aren't in flower yet

ASmallBunchOfFlowers - are you me? The only things that look nice in my garden are the welsh poppies, bleeding heart and purple geranium. The rest is just weeds and forget-me-nots, (forgot about forget-me-nots, they are lovely too).

The best things in my garden at the mo are the plants I bought at the garden centre today - 2 lavendar bushes, 1 hardy fushia and 2 massive lupins. I am hoping the lupins are too massive for the slugs and snails to chomp.

Japanese maples - gorgeous glowing red. Clematis montana scrambling all over the garage roof and up the telephone pole, pink osteospermum in a dark blue glazed pot, variegate wigelia in the front, cleredendron coming into leaf, new fresh leaves all over the silver birch.

Faaaaaar too much for a tiny garden really but what the hell?

Oh and some mauve pelagonium and white and mauve other plants that I bought in B&Q just to make the place look nice for viewings. But they don't really count.

Bearded irises are gorgeous atm.

Aliums are just coming into flower
These make me very happy

at all your lovely plants.

Ours have either been stunted with the miserable temperature/ wind or eaten by the gang of hens.

Our daffs were nice though.

Enormous bright purple bearded iris
French lavender - in pots and serious amounts in ground - obsessed with it. English looking nice and tufty for a good show in a month or so
Azaleas in pots
Cow parsley mixed with white verbascum blattaria, foliage of hollyhocks and linum perenne poking through
New growth on potatoes after frost - a heartening sight
Pink anemones
Peonies looking ready for party in two weeks ( fingers crossed )
Masses of aquilegia

So lovely to be out there today. Until something stung me on the lip.

My alliums are about to come out, I LOVE them, have lots of tall purple pom poms. But I move house on friday so they have 2 more days to come out properly so I can enjoy their splendor.

MedusaHead - I don't think I'm you and I do have some other lovely things in the garden at the moment, but those are my very favourites. I should have mentioned the clematis montana which has been much improved by a hard prune a month or so ago, and Nelly Moser and Niobe who are about to do their stuff.

Looking at the lists here, I am developing shrub envy, though. It is only recently that I have come to appreciate shrubs.

Keep 'em coming .....

My tellima grandiflora has gone bonkers and is just about to flower. My lovely delicate little bronze leaved violet was fabulous - just going over now, and I have two white-flowered epimediums that are lovely and delicate next to the unfurling shuttlecock ferns. We also have a huge swathe of lovely honesty that has appeared - we're still renovating the garden - was untouched for 20 years so still some way to go, but all sorts of things have just appeared of their own accord including the honesty and a massive patch of polygonatum - also lovely at the moment. I have great hopes for an enormous patch of self-seeded foxgloves too.

honesty
bluebells
forget-me-nots
periwinkle
lilac
wisteria

(I've got geraniums to look forward to - mine aren't out yet)

Sorry, slight overuse of the word 'lovely' in my last post - I do love this time of year though.

My geraniums not out yet eitehr.

Mmmmmm bluebells. Lucky you!

The tulips that survived the winter are still gorgeous, they seem to have been out for weeks.

Other than that it's all a bit slow, but I can feel the garden revving up.

The anticipation just now is pretty exciting.

And does it count to mention how proud I am of my salad bed at the moment, beautiful radishes (which I don't normally like, but these are gorgeous), a fine crop of rocket and the spinach just bursting through. Courgettes will be ready to go in a couple of weeks and tomato plants loooking very promising...

As I said, mainly just now it's the anticipation.

The acers, red robin,hebes and azalea are all looking fine (and are chicken proof).

First varigated (sp?!) iris came out yesterday, flag irises soon to emerge.

First Rosa Gertrude Jekyll looks set for tomorrow.....

The back garden has loads of very pretty white geraniums.

And the passionflower which I thought had expired seems to be reviving. Such joy.

My strawberries are going red

No flowers, but my bay trees, rosemary bush and thyme bush are looking fantastic.