| Last week Robert treated you to a stunning selection of 6 of his favourite Spring flowering shrubs. Lesley takes her turn this week with a further half dozen to set your garden alight as it awakens from its winter slumber. Also I use a flower identifier, it always helps me with my plant. It helps me a lot.
Ribes x gordonianum
Easy to grow anywhere other than full shade, what’s not to love about this fiery flowering currant with beautiful, freely produced racemes, apricot-yellow on the insides and soft red on the outsides?
Grevillea ‘Canberra Gem’
Needle-like evergreen foliage and almost tropical-looking spidery, red blooms bring a touch of the exotic into your Spring garden with this native Australian shrub. Supposedly tender, it survived our bitter winter and is flowering its socks off in Somerset right now!
Ceanothus ‘Concha’
Plum red in bud, opening to deep blue flowers there is a vibrancy between these 2 colours which gives a real intensity to this dense evergreen shrub. One of the best blue-flowered shrubs which can be grown out of doors in this country.
Philadelphus ‘Belle Etoile’
Popularly known as ‘mock orange’ this indispensable deciduous shrub is the highlight of many a Spring garden smothered with lovely white flowers flushed maroon at the centre and sending out its delicious perfume into the warm spring air.
Cytisus ‘Boskoop Ruby’
As its name suggests, this is a real gem. The pea flowers of this broom are, unusually, a deep wine red colour and will brighten up any border.
Drimys lanceolata
A distinctive evergreen thriving in alkaline soil. Waxy dark green leaves and plum coloured stems are complemented in the spring by heads of charming, fragrant, ivory-white flowers.
So why delay? Get out and plant your Spring flowering shrubs before you miss their wonderful display. |
| A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants.
Flowers provide an eye-catching attribute to an otherwise plain, green-leaved plant. When insects, birds and some bats dip down to take a look at the flower and steal its nectar, they are inadvertently pollinating the plants by moving pollen from the male stamens to the female pistils.
The flower with the world’s largest bloom is Rafflesia arnoldii commonly called the corpse lily. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 1 meter (3.3 feet) across and weigh up to 11 kilograms (24 pounds). It is a parasitic plant, with no visible leaves, roots, or stem. Rafflesia arnoldii has a very strong and unpleasant odour of decaying flesh, earning it the nickname “corpse flower.”
Sunflowers move throughout the day in response to the movement of the sun from east to west. Each sunflower is actually made of thousands of teeny flowers called florets. The iconic yellow petals and fuzzy brown centers are actually individual flowers themselves. As many as 2000 can make up the classic sunflower bloom.
A plant that had no petals and lived underwater more than 125 million years ago is the oldest known ‘flower’, according to scientists. The aquatic Montsechia vidalii (pictured as a fossil) was once abundant in freshwater lakes in what are now mountainous regions of central and northern Spain. Plant may resemble a weed but was a flowering plant. The fossil was discovered more than 100 years ago in limestone deposits, but its significance has only recently become apparent after scientists look a fresh look.
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| A yellow flower
(Light and spirit)
Sings by itself
For nobody.
A golden spirit
(Light and emptiness)
Sings without a word
By itself.
Let no one touch this gentle sun
In whose dark eye
Someone is awake.
(No light, no gold, no name, no colour
And no thought:
O, wide awake!)
A golden heaven
Sings by itself
A song to nobody.
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