One
Here’s a pink pulmonaria, known as lungwort because of the spots on the leaves. I think this variety is “Raspberry Splash”.
It’s evergreen here in town and is good ground cover in shade. When the leaves look tatty I cut them off and new ones appear at once. This clump seems to be spreading without any help from me but sometimes I lift a bit up and move it somewhere so as to keep the spreading going.
Pulmonaria
Pulmonaria flowering early for the early bees
Two
Fabulous hellebores ready for the opening of Chelsea Physic Garden this weekend “Heralding Spring” where we feature snowdrops and early spring plants. Snowdrop lovers from all over the country come to buy rare varieties and see the displays in the garden. See website for opening details.
Chelsea Physic Garden
Hellebores at Chelsea Physic Garden
Three
Lupins
Six dwarf lupins came free with JParkers bulbs. No idea what to do with them so I’ve had them sitting about in the kitchen and they’ve got on with growing – just got on with it – so now I really will have to do something sensible with them.
Four
Beautiful waxy flowers on the winter honeysuckle “lonicera fragrantissima”
These are flowers of winter flowering honeysuckle, lonicera fragrantissima (or similar variety). The wonderful scent fills the garden all winter. It’s an indestructible and ugly shrub but always worth having. Just pop it in somewhere where it can spread and let it do its thing.
Five
New shoots/buds (not sure which) on a summer flowering clematis doing their thing. This is what I love about plants. They know what to do without asking us every five minutes. They are programmed to continue with or without our help. Great.
There are some plants of course that sit and sulk and wait for you to give them more attention. I don’t have those in the garden and if I find I’ve got one, I give it to someone else with more compassion.
Six
Some lovely new buds on a summer flowering honeysuckle that just epitomise life bursting into life. Yes these new buds might get battered by terrible weather in the next couple of months but they will produce new buds. They try try and try again.
There’s my Six signs of life. Thank you to the Propagator for hosting this theme of Six on Saturday. On his blog you will find other people’s sixes.
All those heavenly hellebores or hellobores as my Hubbie called them the other Day! 🤣
Sorry I only just saw your comment – they seem to hide. I think hellobores sounds lovely.
Very lovely photos that have me yearning for spring. Amongst all those hellebores I would think I’d died and gone to heaven! I hope to add more each year until I run out of shady garden space.
You must really love them. Luckily they do self seed don’t they, but slowly.
I do love to see clematis growth coming through. After a couple of years of tentative growth, most of mine seem to be very keen to grow. I think this is the year…!
Isn’t is always so hard though to cut them right down when we see all those shoots but we know we have to , with late ones anyway. One year I cut down the alpina in november. Then realised my mistake. Wished I could have glued it all back on. Good luck with all yours and show us the pics.