Serendib Garden

Native fairy candles emerging, with fritillary persica beyond, and a bit of blue scilla in the foreground.

It is super-satisfying pruning a raspberry bush and giving away bundles of canes to my neighbors. I ended up with 8 bundles, 6 of which were claimed (over on the local garden FB group) so far. Within minutes of my posting! 

A landscaper once tried to talk me out of planting a forsythia shrub because he said it was ‘weedy’. I don’t know what he meant by that, but I think he meant that it grows in a kind of chaotic way, and can be a little higgledy-piggledy in the garden. I’m okay with a little

I have to admit, one of the things I love about hyacinths is that they flop over after a bit — it’s as if they’re shouting at you, “Pick me, pick me!” And then you cut them and bring them into the house and put them in vases and it smells like spring.

Chionodoxa, glory-of-the-snow.

Need to straighten up the cutting garden a bit, but the flowers are coming anyway, whether I’m ready or not. Daffodils, species tulips.

Hyacinths.

Native fairy candles, just starting to emerge. So feathery. With scilla behind.