Serendib Garden

Aren’t these the cutest? Ranunculus, stock, violas. I do like planting some early spring annuals in pots — or in this case, funny pots meant to look like metal drawers.   

Peony emerging.

Fritillaria persica with scilla beyond.

Thalia daffodils, my favorites, with periwinkle.  

Brunnera “Jack Frost.”

Checkered fritillary.

I think this is a new native in my garden, trillium, planted last year. Looks pretty cool so far — should have big white flowers soon. Fingers crossed. I’d be happy to have a lot more of it, but it seems pretty expensive to buy and slow to spread? Hm, we’ll see…

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