Flowers & foliage in April 2024

SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,912	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 1, 2024 16:34:39 GMT grindle, seaburn, and 2 more like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on Apr 1, 2024 16:34:39 GMT Full speed ahead in the garden with daffs going over & even some tulips been & almost gone!

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 2, 2024 3:03:32 GMT SueA and seaburn like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Apr 2, 2024 3:03:32 GMT lovely photos to start April SueA How on earth do you keep slugs off your Erythronium, put some new ones out last week and they're being chewed already

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Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 2, 2024 15:56:54 GMT SueA and seaburn like this

Post by balc2 on Apr 2, 2024 15:56:54 GMT

Beautiful flowers in your garden, SueA! I loved that Goldfinch in the last photo!

Many years ago, when I first went to Spain, in the early 70s, they used to keep these birds in small cages, like Canaries. In my wife's house they had a couple. Seems they sang very well. Her mum had a lot canaries in small wooden cages on the wall in their house. I don't think people have more than 1 or 2 canaries nowadays & probably no Goldfinches. I looked them up on Wikipedia & it seems they sing very much like canaries & are very popular for that reason. Again it says there were more than 2 million of the birds in Spain, in 2013! Again it says they were captured in their 1,000s here in the UK to be sold as songbirds in cages in the 1900s!

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Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 2, 2024 18:45:45 GMT grindle and seaburn like this

Post by SueA on Apr 2, 2024 18:45:45 GMT

Thanks grindle, I have no idea why the erythroniums haven't been eaten, I have a couple & they've survived a few years in the front garden. Our garden is like a slug & snail holiday camp normally but there are probably fewer in the front garden than the back! 😊🐌

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Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 2, 2024 18:49:14 GMT grindle and seaburn like this

Post by SueA on Apr 2, 2024 18:49:14 GMT

Thanks balc2, we have a pair of goldfinches who are regulars on the seed feeder & small flocks of them in our area. I think there were lots of different little finches caught & kept as caged birds in the past but it is a shame to keep beautiful little birds like these in tiny cages isn't it.

seaburn Top Member Posts: 2,598	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 4, 2024 16:32:13 GMT grindle, SueA, and 1 more like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by seaburn on Apr 4, 2024 16:32:13 GMT just a few things doing well. the tidied up pond Primula marginata an old heuchera from the 30's or 40's Lamprocapnos spectabilis [formerly Dicentra] Clematis Constance

balc2 Top Member The countdown has begun! Posts: 3,378	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 4, 2024 20:30:06 GMT SueA and seaburn like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by balc2 on Apr 4, 2024 20:30:06 GMT I agree wholeheartedly with you, SueA!

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 5, 2024 2:19:56 GMT balc2 likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Apr 5, 2024 2:19:56 GMT lovely photos seaburn

geumgrower Top Member Posts: 1,158	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 5, 2024 10:43:04 GMT SueA, Eli, and 1 more like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by geumgrower on Apr 5, 2024 10:43:04 GMT Thought I ought to take images before Storm Katherine destroys everything (or not as the case maybe). imgur.com/a/BrcoVHr

seaburn Top Member Posts: 2,598	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 5, 2024 15:38:41 GMT balc2 likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by seaburn on Apr 5, 2024 15:38:41 GMT beautiful photos. I envy the trilliums, never managed to make then happy in my garden. I think the squirrels enjoy them too much. you have some lovely primula, hose in hose too.

geumgrower Top Member Posts: 1,158	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 5, 2024 15:40:22 GMT seaburn and balc2 like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by geumgrower on Apr 5, 2024 15:40:22 GMT There are some Jack in the green primulas in the garden somewhere too.

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 6, 2024 3:34:41 GMT balc2 likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Apr 6, 2024 3:34:41 GMT lovely photos geumgrower fingers crossed the storm doesn't do any damage

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Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 6, 2024 15:48:27 GMT grindle, seaburn, and 2 more like this

Post by geumgrower on Apr 6, 2024 15:48:27 GMT

A bit of an anti-climax. The storm so far has done nothing more than bring down a few twigs and flatten some Daffodils. They keep giving these warnings about extreme weather and then nothing happens. Boy cries wolf scenario to me.
Maybe it was worse further to the west, but not bad here.

balc2 Top Member The countdown has begun! Posts: 3,378	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 6, 2024 20:14:46 GMT Eli likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by balc2 on Apr 6, 2024 20:14:46 GMT We have had a very windy day here but it doesn't seem to have harmed my plants.

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,966	Flowers & foliage in April 2024 Apr 11, 2024 10:28:40 GMT grindle, SueA, and 2 more like this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Apr 11, 2024 10:28:40 GMT I couldn’t remember how to upload a photo to the forum, but I found a note to myself, so here is my Quince and Trillium.

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