#spring flowering

May 2026

🪻In the syringarium of the Álfar. P.5.

The most common flower form in lilacs is the simple type, which looks like a four-pointed star. By the way, simple lilacs are usually more fragrant than double-flowered ones☺️

Plant of the Day

Sunday 30 April 2017

Tulip Week - Tulipa 'Rem's Favourite' has been bred to look like a classic Remrandt tulip with purple and green veining over white. It is a modern cultivar with strong-growing, long-lasting flowers. Here it forms the punctuation point in a container at the end of the Long Border at Great Dixter, Sussex, UK.

Plant of the Day

Saturday 29 April 2017

Tulip Week - Tulipa 'Blue Diamond' has a flower resembling a peony with a bowl of petals in a blue-purple almost lilac hue, at the edge of each petal the blue-purple takes on a silvery shade and has a slight fragrance. It looks very dramatic in these containers either side of this gateway.

Plant of the Day

Monday 1 May 2017

Tulip Week (extended!) - a great plant combination of probably Tulipa 'Brown Sugar', the blue flowers of Myosotis (forget-me-not) and what I suspect is a variegated member of the brassica group. This type of imaginative plant association is typical of Great Dixter Garden, Sussex, U.K.

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 2 May 2017

Tulip Week (extended!) - the lily flowered Tulipa 'Moonblush' is a chameleon of a tulip as the flowers change colour as they age with blends of yellow, salmon, pink & orange. Here it adds to the container display at the entrance to the house at Great Dixter, Sussex.

Plant of the Day

Friday 28 April 2017

Tulip Week - Large double flowered tulips make an excellent spring display in containers. Here Tulipa 'La Belle Époque' catches the attention with a stunning blend of apricot-pink and coffee petals fading to the edges. Tulipa 'Mount Tacoma' has flowers held aloft by sturdy stems with buds beginning as pink and green, but opening to creamy white flowers.