keen gardener | Rosie Amber

We had had another week of sunshine and showers which the garden is adoring. Temperatures have stayed quite low, but there are promises of a fine weekend.

I’m off to help at a plant sale this morning, so I shall catch up with posts from all the other SoS gardeners later.

The Lily Of The Valley are just peaking through the lush green leaves in photo one. While photo two begins the pink and purple theme for the rest of the pictures. This is Clematis Josephine, she’s supposed to be easy to grow, need low maintenance and have a compact habit, which sounds fine to me. I bought her in the post Christmas sales as a gift to myself. The third photo is of the first flowers on the variegated Weigela. Last week Graeme from OneManAndHisGardenTrowel predicted that I wouldn’t have to wait much longer for my Weigela to bloom, and how right he was!

Moving from a pink theme, now we get to the purple flowers. I couldn’t resist sharing this pretty self-seeded Viola that has popped up in the ‘lawn’ (it is mainly Astro which I am slowly removing) I really love Violas and much prefer them to the larger Pansy. The fifth photo goes to some Jacob;s ladder which is attracting the bees. While the last photo shows three Alium which are almost out, but just tantalising with the initial flowers.

Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.

Happy gardening

Rosie

With very little flowering in my garden recently, I took a two week break over the festive period.

So what plants are waving hello today?

Starting with this lovely vibrant pink Hyacinth, just one from a bowl given to me as a festive gift. The others are slowly emerging.

Second photo goes to this white variety of Jasmine. This was given to my husband two years ago for his April birthday when it was in full bloom. I have taken a successful cutting of it. Neither flowered last year, but now both are budding up this January.

Third photo is of some ‘mystery’ bulbs shooting up. My best guess is that they are bluebells, but as that is quite early, they may be Hyacinths. I can’t remember where I planted everything, so they will be a surprise when they flower.