What's Looking Good in April 2022

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  1. Balc

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    The Calla Lily tubers were divided among two pots & a couple of weeks ago they started to flower again.
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    Curiously the two pots have flowered at different intervals! :scratch:
     
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      Beautiful colour. I haven't looked at mine down the bottom of the garden.
       
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      Some more tulips popping up
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      This one of our Solomon's seal was very droopy but started perking up when I got the sprinkler working.
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      Tree Paeony ludlowii (Tibetan tree paeony) with the sprinkler perking it up as it looked very sad. It's about 8ft high when it isn't droopy.
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      I pruned this Euphorbia mellifera down to 6"-12" in November. It would normally be up to 6ft by now but the lack of rain has stunted it. It did reach about 10ft one year.
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        One of the few Hostas we don't have in a pot
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        Epimedium - the leaves are through now (we have three different colours of flower)
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        Dicentra (Love lies bleeding)
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        Name has slipped my mind at the moment :scratch: and the head gardener is not available at the moment :heehee:
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        Euphorbias growing wild (we didn't plant them but the bees love them)
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        Poppies just poppying up in a 'cleared' patch (paeony flowered wild ones). The bees love those as well. :thumbsup:
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        More of our wild area
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        With the leaves of some of the wild orchids starting to show (these will be Pyramidal Orchids as the Bee Orchids don't show this size leaves yet)
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        Some of our Lilacs are just showing (also suffering from lack of water but they should have some next week as I move the sprinkler around). Not a hint of flower on any of the white ones or the doubles :sad:
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