Growing up, my mother announced the character of March as coming in as a lion or a lamb and going out as the other. It would be interesting to know if this sounds familiar to you. This year, it is a lion here in the American South albeit a small one. It has been breezy and rainy today but spring’s promise does not disappoint.
There are an abundance of blooms to report today. So let’s get on with the show.
If you love spring, come join our group on Saturday morning. There should be an exuberance of offerings. Here is the link https://gardenruminations.co.uk/page/2/
This is the star for this week. It is the delicate, regal and magnificent Camellia japonica “Sea Foam”. In the last week, the plant has more than a dozen new blooms. It is still a young plant, so I am expecting many more.
There is an abundance of red camellias to report. The only one I can name for you is the “Professor Charles Sargent” which is on the right.
The asparagus fern has awakened from its winter sleep and is sporting a beautiful lime green gown.
The quince which I submitted a week or two ago is now displaying many blooms. I moved this plant last year and seems to prefer the morning sun location where it lives now.
The Kerria or Japanese rose has such a beautiful bloom. It is a leggy plant with long arching stems but the blooms make it stand out.
I am premature in showing you the begonia. It survives in my cold frame. Soon, I will take cuttings and prepare them for planting in window boxes. If it succeeds, this will be the fourth year in a row for this plant.
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow. Jim Stephens does such a good job of hosting us.
Happy Gardening!
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The asparagus fern is really pretty.,abd of course the Camellia ‘Sea Foam’.
Enjoy the promise of brighter days ahead.
It is a beautiful thing to see plants come back to like.
The saying is familiar, but not one I hear much of these days. Fingers crossed, we have a Lion here too. A lamb would be appreciated!
Your camellia flowers are much prettier than mine in the rain. The petals of mine turn brown quickly. I’m impressed that the begonia survive in the cold frame, I would have thought it was kept indoors for the winter
I am also surprised. I cannot explain it but I will take the benefit.
Everything looks beautiful in your yard this week! I got excited by your last Begonia photo wondering whether you already had Begonias outside in your yard. Mine are just holding on in the garage and basement but I’m already potting up rooted cuttings that have sat in water much of the winter. Your middle red Camellia looks a lot like mine from a few weeks ago. With Jim’s help, I tracked down its name as C. japonica ‘Kramer’s Supreme.’ C. japonica ‘Sea Foam’ is simply delicious. It would be the star of my six as well! Have a great week, and yes, I grew up with the ‘lion and lamb’ weather forecasting in my family as well. Is it maybe a southern thing? It was lamb like here yesterday, so I’m holding my breath to see what the end of the month brings-
Thank you for the ID help. It turns out that I purchased two of the same last spring at the Spring Plant Sale at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Those two are small and have not bloomed this spring.
You know what they say about planting in 3s 😉 How gorgeous they will be blooming together in years to come!
My mum used that saying every March! In recent years it’s definitely been ‘In like a Lion and out like a Lamb’! This March is definitely a lion – we started off this morning with sunshine but we had to come indoors when the hail came down. I love that gorgeous Camellia ‘Sea Foam’ and your Kerria has reminded me of the time it grew in my garden. It had to go after it rampaged through the borders, which was pity because it’s such a lovely cheerful bloom.
I have a white formal double camellia in the collection I work with that is wrongly named, so I made a list of all the other formal double whites so I could compare it with them all. There are 27, all slightly different. And your ‘Sea Foam’ is different again. And every one of them is different, if not by much. Some of the pictures in the Camellia register show a flower with the edges of the petals rolled in, which yours looks to be doing slightly. Is that normally a feature of yours?
The ‘Toyo-nishiki’ quince is a lovely looking thing too. I love the mix of flower colours.
Yes, the petals do roll in slightly.
The asparagus fern is lovely and fresh, I remember having that in Cape Town, creeping over a pergola (with shade netting). Too cold here unless kept as a houseplant. Your ‘Sea Foam’ has nice shaped petals, very neat like a waterlily.
All the camellias are beautiful but Sea Foam is definitely the star of the show.
Sea Foam is beautiful with its decoration of rain drops also like your quince which is very pretty. All the flowers are telling us that spring has arrived, even though the weather doesn’t agree!
Camellia japonica ‘Sea Foam’ is a beauty, especially bejeweled with raindrops.
The camellias are lovely and romantic. The quince is my favorite, lovely! tzgarden.blogspot.com