Sonning - the Bear on a Boat.: Garden Bears' World

Saturday 10 April 2021

Garden Bears' World - An Update from Endon

Hello everyone! I've been neglecting my Garden Bears' World posts recently, so it must be time to catch up with what's happening in our garden.

Spring is a very busy time of year, with more flowers bursting into bloom. I always think of March and early April as 'yellow season' because so many of the flowers - like the daffodils and forsythia, primroses and celandines - are yellow!

Polar's greenhouse is very full now, because she ordered some bare-root perennial plants for our garden, and to plant in her friends' gardens. There are hardy geraniums, veronicas and verbenas and also some auriculas, which are like fancy primroses and like to grow in gritty compost and not get too wet.

Our cuttings all seem to be doing well and the first of the peas growing in egg boxes are starting to poke through the compost - we ran out of kitchen roll tubes, as we had used them for our broad beans, so we are trying this as an experiment!

There are plenty of flowers blooming in the front garden now, including a really pretty single hellebore and more daffodils. The glossy leaves of the pagoda lilies are up but no flowers yet.

There are flowers in the lawn too - snakeshead fritillaries and wild daffodils at the moment, and bluebells to follow - so Polar won't be cutting the grass for a couple of months.

The primroses are flowering too and so is one of our new plants - the bergenia I helped Polar to plant earlier in the year. I'm so pleased it has settled in and is happy in its new home.

The top and middle beds in the front garden are sunny. Tulips are coming through in the top one and we have set up the solar fountain in the little pond in the middle one, and put some long sticks across for the birds to perch on if they want a shower!