My Spring Bulb collection is starting to come up

Spring Bulbs

Spring Bulbs are an easy way to get colour into the garden. I picked up a whole load of Crocus plants at the end of the planting season for only a few pounds. These are all starting to come through now. I would say that the new bulbs are about 4 weeks behind some of the more established bulbs. I hope to get some pictures when the rest of them have come up.

45 bulbs to start the season off.

16 * Crocus Vernus "Flower Record" 8-12cm tall

20 * Iris Reticulate "Harmony" 10-15cm tall

10 * Chrocus  Golden Bunch 8-10 cm tall

All of these flower Febuary to March but are running about 4 weeks late due to late planting

and to accompany them Tulips and Daffodil's 

8 * Tulip Late Mixed 40cm tall
8 * Daffodil Cheerfulness 40cm tall
Both of these flower April to May and although they were planted at the end of December I think that they will come up on time.

on top of these new purchases there are a lot of bulbs already in the ground from previous years which have already started to put on a good show

Beds

Beds

I have several beds this one is the front Garden. Last week I removed 2 Lavander bushes from this bed to the back garden.

Here are the 2 lavender bushes on the right of the picture. This is a very shaded area but it is too dry to support most plants. The Lavender plants suffered in the front garden getting too wet (not surprising with this year being the wettest on record) so I am hoping that they will thrive here.

This is the new bed that I have just dug. Not a lot to look at at the moment but this is the part of the garden with the most direct sun so I am hoping that the bed is going to be spectacular this summer. When you dig a new bed you disturb the seeds that are in the ground so You find that you have a flush of weeds that will all come up.

I have planted bulbs in this bed ready to flower between May to October but I wont plant anything else here for a few weeks until the weeds have been dealt with. When all the weeds have germinated I will remove them in one go.

This is my fruit patch. There would normally be a rhubarb plant on the left (Please come back in the summer). Then Strawberries and in the cold frame are 2 fuchsias. I am considering removing the Strawberries at the moment. I feel that this would be a good bed to plant some flowers maybe a wild flower mix. I have been thinking about moving the strawberries into so large pipe I've found cutting holes in it and standing it vertically

This is the west wall so will receive a lot of summer sun.