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‘I cannot help feeling that in this time of cancellation and restricted movement True Grit will take on a new significance, as it will be the only way to keep in touch with our members. With that in mind I have attached some images of my spring garden. Remember spring can’t be canceled, and let’s hope it is a harbinger of better times to come.’

Bob Charman

From left to right:

1/ The common primrose or primer rosa, the first rose of spring.

2/ Fritillaria eduardii.

3/ Daphne modesta from West China, cold tolerant but needs a dry winter.

4/ Cherry blossom.

5/ Iris suaveolens helveolus group.

6/ Iris bucharica?

7/ Pulsatilla, All easy to grow, ideal for a trough or the rockery.

8/ & 9/  Small Iris, easy to grow in pots or the open garden.

‘Thought you might like to see the Cyclamen. Persicum in bloom at the far end of the greenhouse’.

BARRY MASLIN

Thanks to Lynn Nash for sending us a picture of her Primula auricula.

Zara Frenkiel has kindly sent us some pictures from her garden; A tree peony, a violet, two tulips, the yellow is a species and an interesting pink camellia showing a red sport.

‘I was amazed this week to find several double Anemone blanda growing in a patch which flourishes in the shade of an old apple tree. There are two shades of fully double and some semi doubles’. 

Sylvia

Jon Evans Garden

Jon Evans, well known member of the Woking West Surrey Group and one of the official photographers at AGS plant shows and producer of the Photographer’s Diary has taken some pictures of his garden for us. The commentary is his.(Parts two and three to follow)

‘Let’s start with the front garden.  Bit of a mess – the crevice garden and surrounds need weeding and renovation.  Lots of grass to remove’.

Jon Evans

1/ Crevice Garden and 2/ Helleborus hybridus.

3/ Anemone appenina, 4/ Tulipa purissima and 5/ Tulipa ‘Yellow?’

6/ Pulsatilla’s rubra, and 7-9/ vulgaris ‘pink’ and ‘white’.

10/ ‘Not sure what the Scilla is – label long lost.  Possibly litardieri – it has taken over a bit’.

Part Two

‘Moving round the back now – 1-3/ here is Rosa Mermaid after I tackled it – no longer in the guttering and all across our bedroom window’.

Main rock garden – dominated by primroses.  And a few Pulsatilla. 

4/ Pulsatilla vulgaris pale pink form.

5/ Pulsatilla vulgaris small dark Ex Robin White.

6/ primula vulgaris.

7/ Primula elatior.

8/ Veronica Georgia Blue.

‘I am glad tulips like the soil here – the Narcissus fly very effectively prevent me growing daffs in the open garden’.

9-10/ Tulipa Little Beauty.

Part Three

‘This is a new Erythronium to me, and a good one.  A good form of Trillium rivale with very full petals.  Just a few Pulsatilla seedlings’.

1/ Erythroniums.

2/ Erythronium ‘Harvington Sunshine’.

3/ Trillium rivale.

4/ Pulsatilla vulgaris.

‘The Ipheion would probably have gone to Rosemoor – a bit tired now.  And the lovely Tulipa cretica with a tired T heweri’.

5/ Ipheion ‘Rolf Fiedler’.

6/ Tulipa humilis.

7/ Tulipa heweri & cretica.

‘Also, from a couple of weeks ago, my Paeonia clusii seedling is finally big enough to flower.  And a South African succulent which I grew from seed ? 20 years ago but has never flowered’.

8-9/ Paeonia clusii.

10/ Aloinopsis spathulata.

11/ Thalictrum orientale Greek form.

‘The Gladiolus ought to be outside – perfectly hardy – but they have become a greenhouse weed’.

12/ Gladiolus tristis hybrid.

‘A Moraea that wasn’t what it was supposed to be, but I don’t often get them to flower.  And two different Tropaeolum hybrids, from seed from Rosemary via the exchanges.  First time I have ever flowered this Sparaxis’.

13/ Moraea vegeta.

14-15/ Tropaeolum hybrids.

16/ Sparaxis grandiflora.

‘A few days ago was the time the Woking group would have been holding its annual flower show. so here is my entry for the 6″ 3 pan Primula class OK, I know there are only two pots. Don’t knit pick! And yes they went over a couple of weeks ago and were never good enough for a national show, but they are as good as I do. They are Primula marginata Pixie with Peggy Wilson’.

Mike Morton

‘Thanks Mike, I thought I would add  my primula Boothman’s Variety in a 6” pot to make a three pan set’.

Will Rook

A few pictures from my garden on Friday 27^th March. ‘It was a sunny but very windy day which made taking photographs with my mobile phone problematic as I had to wait for the wind to drop to get an in focus shot’.

Will Rook

1/ Iris unguicularis. ‘Probably one of the last of the flower buds for this season. The clump was lifted in the autumn and is awaiting replanting in June’.

2/ Fritillaria meleagris. ‘I planted these bulbs in rough grass a couple of years ago; they have established but have been attacked by slugs and scarlet Lilly beetles, although not causing too much damage’.

3/ Tulipa heweri. ‘A reasonable priced species Tulip discovered in 1969 in Afghanistan, but not named until 2008, bulking up nicely’.

4/ Bergenia ciliata. ‘A beautiful deciduous Bergenia from the Western Himalayas, I can’t believe I had trouble even giving it away last year at the garden party!’