March has arrived as a lamb. It is beautiful weather. Sunshine, calm and warmth prevail. The garden is showing signs of advancing. The best show is being displayed by the daffodils.
Garden tasks this week have included trimming some hollies to shorten the skirt but not before they were stripped of berries by migrating robins. Tending my new seedlings which need some gentle watering every day. I attended a workshop on grafting Japanese maples and now have one Sekimori Japanese maple to cultivate.
I am joining the Six on Saturday group this morning. Check us out. Here is the website. https://gardenruminations.co.uk. We are hosted by Jim Stephens. It is easy to post photos of your own. The rules are on the website.
I may have posted one or more of these last week. They were putting on such a display that I hope you forgive me for having overlooked that fact. These are all well established and I have sizable groupings of each. May be time to consider dividing.
This hellebore is in very good form. It is standing erect and putting on a wonderful display in the morning light.
“Jetfire” is putting on a good show. The bright cups stand out in this grouping. I had these in containers last year but they look much better in this bed underneath a row of crape myrtles.
This is a new addition for this spring. It is the eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis). It is a small native often called the Pussy Willow. Since it puts out these buds so early in the spring, it has often been associated with rebirth. It seems to be off to a good start where it will replace a star magnolia (Magnolia stellate) which will soon need to be removed.
Happy Gardening!
