Early Spring

This post celebrates new growth. Some come via post, dry rooted, or plugs, or even in pots. And some are home grown.
Weigela cuttings. 
If you enlarge these photos you will see they are grown a pot within a pot. This maximises numbers per pot - 20+ deutzias is the record  and root-trains them so they are less entangled. Each pot seems to have about a dozen plants.The top is Weigela Bristol Ruby which has the advantage of repeat flowering. Our original pink weigela only has a two week flowering period.

 This second pot are the golden leafed form which is a luscious plant. Again repeat flowering I think.

Grape hyacinth, white form (actually pale blue)

A Fuji flowering cherry, Prunus incisa Kojo No Mai
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 Corydalis

'Black' hellebore, up-shot into the sun

 And down-shot

Other hellebores

and a pulmonaria, 'lungwort', foreground

 with young forsythia

 Magnolia stellata, two shots

One of the new auruculas, with green edge flowers

'Black' Double Hellebore from Harvington

Buying in season, these from Vernons

A project, a natural spring feeds a bog garden. Controlling the bulrushes and flag irises to reveal the day lilies and primroses

 Ribes sanguineum, flowering current. The white form (below) has given us a month of flower. Two forms of ribes odoratus, yellow and red,  should flower in the next two weeks and will be in my next post.