It seems rather incongruous that violets would bloom in my garden. After all, they are woodland flowers, usually found in damp conditions and my garden is decidedly non woodland. But today I saw my first flower on this violet I bought a couple of years ago, when the garden bloggers visited Madrone Nursery. I know it has flowered before because there are little seedlings growing around it but I always managed to miss the flowers in the past.
Among the sweetly scented stocks, the first swallowtail butterfly of the year. He didn't seem to mind at all that I was hovering over him to catch his photo. He'll be paying a visit to my parsley before long.
The first of the summer snowflakes,
Leucojum aestivum are blooming in the English garden
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In the same bed, a new addition last winter, a small flowered narcissus. Surely now that I have bought some metal markers, I won't lose the names of the varieties I plant. It doesn't really seem important until you come to write about the plant and have no idea what the cultivar is.
It seems rather incongruous that violets would bloom in my garden. After all, they are woodland flowers, usually found in damp conditions and my garden is decidedly non woodland. But today I saw my first flower on this violet I bought a couple of years ago, when the garden bloggers visited Madrone Nursery. I know it has flowered before because there are little seedlings growing around it but I always managed to miss the flowers in the past.
Among the sweetly scented stocks, the first swallowtail butterfly of the year. He didn't seem to mind at all that I was hovering over him to catch his photo. He'll be paying a visit to my parsley before long.
The first of the summer snowflakes, Leucojum aestivum are blooming in the English garden. 
In the same bed, a new addition last winter, a small flowered narcissus. Surely now that I have bought some metal markers, I won't lose the names of the varieties I plant. It doesn't really seem important until you come to write about the plant and have no idea what the cultivar is.
