April Impressions

These Goldfinches are regular feeders at the nyjer seed. I hope that at the new house that I can attract these beautiful birds. I admire their quick flying, their beautiful song when they are serenading or calling each other, and of course their beautiful feather colours.

The Welsh poppies are blooming here again. These sumptuous flowers look like coloured silk tents billowing in the wind. The pollen and stamen are arranged around the green centre that turns into the seed pod. I'm hoping we can take some seed pods with us. There are two colours in this garden, the bright yellow, and the light orange. The orange coloured welsh poppy is rarer, maybe its a recessive gene? These self seed freely around the garden, behind benches, and in between paving slabs. Their flower buds are hairy like cavemen...

In the grass at the front of the house there was this single Myositis plant, the Forget Me Not. These are notorious self seeders too. Plant a few this year and you will be finding them for years to come.
I love the plants that have poetic names like Forget Me Not, Love In The Mist, or Love Lies Bleeding. Whats your favourite poetic plant name?

In my planter boxes from Trilby street (my old address) these Jonquill's are in flower. They are have paper-like white flowers and smell like candy sticks. A lovely childhood smell that is so sweet on the nose. They look really dainty on the end of very thin green strap leaves.
I hope that I can bring a few of all these things to our new garden (one day until we get the keys).
The days are warmer, and the daylight available for gardening is longer. The amount of flowers in bloom is increasing weekly and the birds/wildlife/insects are becoming more frantic in their activity. I am in blog heaven at this time of the year. I love photographing the smaller details in the garden. When they are looked at over time they become a photographic/prose mosaic of the constantly evolving garden.
I want it to rain to water the allotment, and to fill my water butt.I have been studying the BBC weather website.

Tuesday's Flowers full of Grace..

Geranium Vancouver Centennial, the Scarlet flower

The Asiatic lilly blooming still, but dropping flowers now :(

The first recognisable flower on the Hydrangea.Where is the coloured petals? Will it be blue, pink, or white?Should i get iron chippings for the soil to make it blue?

The Nicotiana Domino starry shaped red flowers.I thought these were scented but i cant smell anything!

I want a sensory garden one day with sights, smells, and textures.I love handling leafs, sniffing flowers, examining the flowers, buds, and looking for new growth.

Pictures from Out n About

More Tree flowers.Love the white flowers with yellow centres.

A fiery looking shrub bush, used as a barrier to a computer retailer.The colours are burnished, and fiery like Autumn colour, but in April.

The Fiery bush in profile along the wall...

Another nameless shrub, this looks quite stark, and needs some Ravens hopping through it.I love the muted colours, and dry feel of it.

Some Flowers from yesterday

Lovely Pink/red flowers Dicentra's in the Front garden border.I love the silvery tear drops...

Saxifrage flower in the sunlight, with gold and yellow centre. This is growing in an old belfast sink now turned into an Alpine garden.You can see the crushed green glass beneath...

I call these cowslips.Primula Veris, my mum used to see these walking around rural Cirencester in Gloucestershire.

Perfect nodding yellow flowers!

Frans free bulbs.A nursery gave her eight free plants that still smell sweet.I cant remember the name Doh, but you plant the bulbs in September to force them, to flower and scent in time for Xmas.

The flowers are very lilly-ish, but quite strong looking.I will alter the post when i remember what they are called :)

Added on Friday the 13th...They are Hyacinths and they smell loveloy.Im going to get some in September as these free specimins have won me over.For Xmas colour and scents!