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Garden notes, 22 March 2019

Not too much has changed in the garden over the last couple of weeks.  It has been chilly with very strong winds and I think the plants have battened down the hatches a little bit!  However, there are outbreaks of lovely colour dotted about.

Again I am breaking the photos down in to our small inner garden, and then on the other side of the lovely stone wall, the outer garden.

The inner garden.  The white flowering currant is looking pretty, especially next to the blue of the anemone.  The wallflower plants are survivors from last year.  I planted a few in the border and several more in a huge flowerpot.  They are all looking quite strong and now starting to bloom.
These are my rose geranium cuttings, taken last November before I went to Australia, which are now beginning to bulk out a little.  I will end up with too many of these plants, but I love them, so that's fine!
I have bought a few Bellis daisy plants from Aldi!  They are not the least bit bee friendly, for which I apologise to the bees and other pollinators, but I love them.  They are so pretty and they remind me of my grandmother.  She always had them in her garden.
On the other side of the garden wall the dog's tooth violet, which moved itself up to Edinburgh with us from Hampshire, in my flowerpots, in 1995, and trailed around after us ever since, has produced lots of adorable little plants.  They are all over the place, and here sitting in amongst the lavender plants.
In the photo below, I am not sure what this plant is, although it is familiar.  I do know it's a wild flower, possibly wild mignonette Reseda lutea, so I am just going to leave it and see what happens!  Surrounding it are a few of the hundreds (possibly thousands) of the self-seeded Shining Cranesbill, Geranium lucidum.  Last year there were about a dozen plants, and this year there is a thick carpet of seedlings!
 This is a branch of the witch hazel, post blooming.  The new leaf buds are just appearing.

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