The Early Garden

The garden has just exploded with new green shoots emerging from the ground, and a few of them are in bloom already.  Mrs. F.G. planted quite a few small Primrose outside the window to amuse me, but I also got out onto the patio a couple of times, it was so sunny and warm.  In fact it got actually hot for a few days, summer in April!

There are a number of both white and purple Primrose, adding a spot of colour to spring.

There's a pretty hellebore, though its blooms hang down so are hard to photograph.

We have a couple of patches of Scilla or Squill as they are called.  I've seen huge patches of these in a couple of lawns on the way downtown.

And there's a nice big clump of the Dwarf Iris.  I showed you the plants out front where they get full sun, but these are in shade and so bloom a couple of weeks later.

And out front the Hyacinth are just about to open up.

Footnote:  It's three days later and the Daffodils in the front garden are in full bloom, as are those Hyacinth.  But the Dwarf Iris, which like it chilly, have already faded in the hot temperatures of the last few days.