Thursday, April 15, 2010

April Garden Delights

This is the time of year I visually feast on the blossoms of my 12 little fruit trees (soon to be 14 or more, if I have any say in it).  Such as these apple blossoms on our espalier apple tree:
I so love this little tree - it bears a lot of fruit for its size, and looks so beautiful to me.
The espalier asian pear is fully in bloom also:
The Lapin cherry is loaded with blossoms this year:
There are many other delights in the garden also, such as this narcissus which is planted below my Rainier cherry tree:
I have 3 different colours of periwinkle; this one is the standard "periwinkle" color, but with variegated leaves:
I have a pink and a yellow flowering epimedium.  These are delightful little plants, which must be enjoyed from close range:
My Cornus canadensis took a number of years to really establish itself, but this year it is looking really good:
I forgot the name of this flower, but it has delightful dark leaves, and such a cheery yellow flower (the green leaves are from my climbing hydrangea, which not only climbs the wall, but has climbed across the bed also):
This Galium odoratum (sweet woodruff) is not exciting, but is a delicate contrast to the rock behind:
Finally, my Gunnera manicata was trying to push its way to freedom from underneath the rotten Winter protection of last year's foliage....
....so I set it free, to the horror of a million pillbugs which scurried away once exposed to the light:
All the best to everyone in their gardens this month!  For more Garden Blogger Blooms Day posts, be sure to visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

6 comments:

  1. I've just planted an espalier apple along a fence this month. which direction does yours face and have you had success with it? Great bloom day photos!

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  2. I love your share of fruit trees... sometimes I think they are better then the bulbs that are blooming right now.

    Happy Spring!

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  3. Delightful spring blooms ... do you ever make May wine with your sweet woodruff? I have huge beds and love this woodland plant <3

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  4. Great tour. I really like the way you use your fence as a backdrop. I can tell you're having a great spring! :-)

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  5. Stevie - That fence is on the NE side, so it gets sun nearly all day. The espaliers bear a lot of fruit, requiring thinning so that they have room to form. You can see the progression of my espaliers in this series of posts back to 2006.

    Bren - Thanks, the blossoms last only a short while, but they are beautiful.

    joey - Thanks, I had never heard of May wine, but I knew the sweet woodruff was "edible" in some way. I may try drying some as a potpourri to enjoy the fragrance.

    SG - Thanks. I wish I had more room along my fence to plant more espaliers.

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  6. Love your garden!!!!! How is your multigraft asian pear doing, and do you have any current pictures to post?

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