Making a Garden
Gold bleeding-heart and black geraniums
‘Gold Heart’ bleeding-heart is worth a try if you’re feeling bold and have a soft spot for bleeding-hearts.
It’s tulip time
May is prime time for tulips, and perhaps you have some thick stands of stems with buds beginning to turn colour.
Beautiful Cornelian cherry
Cornelian cherry blooms early with short-stalked umbels of yellow flowers breaking from bare wood. Cornelian cherry flowers have a heavy honey scent if you stick your nose on them (but it doesn’t seem to travel in the air), and the yellow colour is similar to forsythia.
Minor bulbs make a big impact
This cool spring has provided me with an opportunity to survey my garden’s small, minor bulbs to see which are still going strong, and which are disappearing.
Earliest perennial pea
Spring vetchling, an early perennial pea, is related to two other ornamental pea plants — scented, annual sweet pea and hardy sweet pea vine. Spring vetchling carries a swarm of silky pea flowers on erect 15-inch (38-cm) stems held above attractive, pointed foliage.
