Late April

Pictures taken 25th April 2015.
Ornamental malus (crab apple)

and fruiting eating apple

Pseudo-quince (chaeomeles)

Camellias

Pieris in new leaf

Some daffodils have gone over, some are newly in flower

The tree paeony

Species tulip

A frilly tulip

and in purple

Close to black...

and green flowered

Spiraeas are useful to brighten corners and to take the eye from maturing bulb leaves

Fritilleries

The black and white bed - daffodil Thalia and tulip Queen of the Night.

Unusual shrub, carpenteria briefly in flower

Another rarity, lonicera syringantha (shrub honeysuckle resembling lilac)

Two roses are just out - this is Canary Bird

and this the Bankian Rose (rosa banksii)

A shocking green - cornus

The chocolate vine (Akebia-quinata)

Good colour mix, creams and purple geranium phaeum.

Mid April Sunshine

 Good solid sunshine with a cold wind.
Yellow archangel, dead-nettle

 with primrose

 On your marks! Cat thinks near pond

The auricula theatre through daffodils

White lungwort (pulmonaria)

Yellow flowered flowering currant Ribes odoratum.

Ribes X gordonianum (ribes odoratum and sanguinium crossed)

Buddleiya salviifolium (salvia-like leaves)

The leaves

Skimmia

King cup (caltha)

Yellow archangel, an ornamental dead-nettle.

Clematis armandii escaping

Kerria japonica, 'bachelor's buttons'.

 Miniature multiheaded daffodil 'Sun Disc'

 First flowers of spiraea 'bridal veil'.

 Primula auricula on the show-bench - green edged 'Fancies'

Magnolia stellata through the daffodils

Ribes sanguinium, flowering currant, has more flowers every day.