Gardening corner 2018 season!???

They are here!! The dreaded lily beetles have started appearing on my snakes head fritillaries and I am going to have to start a constant patrol to keep them from the disgusting mess the make when they lay their eggs. When all my other lilies start appearing I'll be up to my neck in the little blighters. I'm told there is no remedy but to pick them off by hand. Anyone know any different?

In the last few days everything has exploded here. Blackburn is white with blossom. Trees and hedges greening rapidly. Masses of tulips, blueberry, and primaries in the garden The rhododendrons are flowering. It is just beautiful. And we have just come home from DDs to find a corporate sitting on the back lawn.

Blackthorn not Blackburn. We are in Wales

I must proof read
Mazes of tulips, bluebells and primroses ?

What’s a corporate BB is it a Welsh thing?

Delphiniums half up today, poor confused things.After a hot couple of days, so much leaf and flower out that shouldn’t be as yet.
Not complaining really though, as sitting reading in the sun has been such a treat.?

I hate this Kindle. It has a mind of its own !!!

I meant a cormorant ( Bird)

I'm pleased to report that I've spotted green shoots of recovery on the fuschias I thought I'd lost. ?

I have managed to find new shoots on my Fuschia. I thought the beast from the east had finished it off.

I bought this pretty plant on a U3A garden trip last spring. It was remaindered.
Mine has now flowered and it's lovely. so I went out and bought two more plants half price on the search and rescue table.

I have also found that a pot of dahlia tubers someone gave me have actually survived. I have never grown them before.
Why do I get so excited about such things.

The plant I am enthusing about is this.

Erythronium 'Pagoda' | dog's tooth violet 'Pagoda'/RHS Gardening
www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/89327/i-Erythronium-i-Pagoda/Details
Find help & information on Erythronium 'Pagoda' dog's tooth violet 'Pagoda' from the RH

My erythroniums haven't flowered this year

Erythroniums are lovely. I planted some bulbs last Autumn and had forgotten them. Nice surprise when they popped up.

Things are certainly galloping away at the moment. My clematis struggled to make it to the top of the fence last year, but is already there and still travelling this year. agapanthus and day lilies have put in a strong appearance too.

Hope everyone’s enjoying the lovely weather, sudden down pours are at least watering the garden. My seedlings are a bit behind, but the rhododendrons and Azaleas have been magnificent. How everyone else’s garden doing?

Tulip, daffs, bluebells, cowslips and forget me nots all over, now lily of the valley smelling delicious, chives, thrift, little violets californis poppy ( that I never planted) alliums and foxgloves again that I never planted out and beautiful I love my little garden

Lucky to have alliums that you didn’t plant! My perennial Stock is flowering it’s heart out, it’ll go on all summer and smells devine.

This is for Allium fans yes I am daft. I have been admiring the Alliums I bought at last years GW show at the NEC and are now blooming

I have a found myself patting and holding the heads of the flowering my Allium flowers when I walk past. They are lovely to feel with the petals their shape.