We cut tha Fatsia back quite hard, and have popped a couple of pots in the space for now.
This Ribes was in the garden when we bought the house. I wasn't terribly keen and "pruned" it back. Hard. Now it's thriving and, I have to say, I rather like it as it gives a nice splash of colour in March.
Snowdrops ... still going strong on the 16th March
Phyllostachys aureosulcata-'Aureocaulis' I will keep posting photos of this. The stem colour (or should that be colours?) is amazing.
I was a little late taking the photo, so the flowers are moving on to be berries. The Mahonias do seem to be thriving this year. Please let them hurry and grow to hide the fence! PS. The fence doesn't reallt lean like that, now was I drunk when I took the photo. I'm just a bad photographer!
The Hellebores weren't quite so good this year, but what we had are really quite attractive.
New for this year, Daffodils in the border we've named the Prairy Border. OK, not very prairy, but we like it.
Pink? Oh no it isn't. Who said the camera doesn't lie?
The weather spoiled most of the blooms of this Camellia pretty well as soon as they came out, despite being in a sheltered spot. Pity.
I've wracked my brains. I still can't remember what these are. Suffice to say they're thriving in the semi-shade between the Black Bamboo, Phyllostachys nigra, and the Photinia.
Shame you can't smell these. Daphne Odora AureoMarginata. Not an impressive looking plant, although the flowers are pretty enough. The scent, though, will blow your socks off.
