Some pics from my garden today

This lovely Rhododendron. not sur what its name is.

This is such a pleasant and relaxing thread, thanks everyone for posting.

More beautiful pics.

I agree Nonu. But I think this time of year is a very special time when the garden comes to life again. So much beauty as if appearing from nowhere in what were patches of soil just a few weeks ago.

*Agus I do think you could be right, however, my garden gives me so much pleasure all the time

Except of course in the dead of Winter, I know a lot of folk have winter flowering stuff but I am not one of them!

It's really hard to get hold of over here, it's more common in the USA, but I have tracked down somewhere for you.

www.rosecottageplants.co.uk/tulip-cummins/p179

The little nursery where I bought mine has disappeared. Tulips are an extravagance in my garden - the mice eat them. I'm thinking of wrapping all the bulbs in chicken wire before I plant them.

Lovely rhodo. Mine are just coming out.

Nellie isn't that the rhodo called Apple Blossom?

I've not taken a picture to send, but a fragrance instead...when I went down to put the chucks to bed it was getting dark and the scent of the Choisya on the night air was breathtaking.

Heady.

Thanks JANE, I have been onto website, it is a bit early yet so I have registered and they will contact me when the tulips are available !

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Are these the ones?

I'm going to mix the purple frilly ones with these black tulips next year.

They look much 'blacker' in real life than on the photo.

AKA, they are the ones, quite special IMO !

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Done a stint of compost shovelling (before breakfast number two), made some date slices (cooling in soop's kitchen as we speak), done a mega washing up, partly from last night cos I was out archerifying until late. Must be brekky number three time.

And our yellow azaleas are beginning to flower.

Stop it! I've not had breakfast no.1 yet and you're making me hungry.

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I love the azalea. partly because I really dislike the one I inherited when we bought this house 7 years ago. I can't convey its fluorescence in a photo, but it shouts at you.

Yes, Aka! It's really special, isn't it? It will look lovely with Queen of the Night.

Scary camellia and bi-coloured camellia sport shown. The camellia is weird, I keep thinking I will get rid of it. It flowers white on one side, pink on the other, and red and white variations in the middle that change from year to year. I don't like it at all but it fascinates me.

I think that BI camellia is beautiful !

Anyone got a choisiya by the way?

I am trying to identify a shrub in my garden !

Gold or green? Probably 'sundance' if gold, possibly 'goldfingers', the commonest green is plain 'ternata', there is also a green called 'white dazzler' but I can't think of any others without looking them up. Oh no, I used to have 'Aztec pearl' as well. It has spikier-looking leaves.

That camellia is lovely janer

Nonu I posted earlier about the smell of my Choisiya at dusk. Wonderful.

Agree about those tulips. I picked some up at a local garden centre on spec, but I'll be hunting them down next year as I only have half a dozen.

JANER ---green

AKA --- oh I see your post now, but am not "sure" about mine , doh !

I will have to go and study the pictures in my garden manual

Think the best place for me is going to the movies, out the way!!

I'll go and take a picture. Give me a minute.......

If it's in flower now, smells good (especially at night) and looks a bit like this......

I think my Choisia is Astec Pearl; the evening air is suffused with its scent. I also have a very pretty pink Deutzia which may or may not be Strawberry Fields - the label has faded. The latest tulip to bloom is the almost black Queen of the Night with lovely lustrous dark petals.

Which is probably Aka's, as it is as late as Cummins. We do have Queen of the Night, quite a few of them, but they are in the shade in my OH's black bed so are later than most. I say it is his, but he chooses the plants and makes me look after them. You can't see the tulips because they are growing in amongst his collection of black hellebores and heucheras.