No whinging this week, I promise. I’m too scared of Jude to try that lark again. Of course, she is quite right and I have given myself a serious talking to. And for once I actually listened. So, for one day only, which is all I can promise, all will be happy, upbeat and optimistic. There may be skipping. If you would like to learn more about Six on Saturday, Jim at Garden Ruminations is your man. Shall we proceed?
Some consider lesser celandine, Fiscaria verna, a noxious weed. Although nigh on impossible to eradicate, due to the tiny root tubers which drop off when the plant is disturbed, they are invaluable for early pollinators. They disappear below ground before summer is here and what is more they are a little ray of sun shine. Just like me.
A couple of Muscari latifolium have popped up unannounced. My favourite grape hyacinth. That is wonderful thing about lost labels and goldfish memory, you are given a gift on every spring emergence.
A self-seeder is a joy indeed, especially when it has as much to contribute as honesty, Lunaria annua ‘Corfu Blue’ (perhaps). Violet spring flowers are followed by decorative seed heads. Win, win.
This could be the year! Our peach tree is flowering well and all it has to do it be pollinated, avoid frost and hold on any fruit until picking time. I feel it has the strength to succeed and I will be cheering from the wings.
Does anything fill a gardener’s heart with glee more than a freshly germinated seed. Not much. This is Glaucidium palmatum (hopefully) which I have never actually seen in real live but have always admired in photographs. A long way to go, but a strong first step.
These hyacinths were dug up from their terracotta pot and stuck in this pink plastic one after they had finished and replaced by some other floozie. The plan was to replant them in the autumn. The gardener forgot. The hyacinths went ahead anyway. Yet again, surplus to requirements.
There we have it. Have a wonderful week everyone. The only way is up, baby!
Off The Edge Gardening 
Given your miraculous, and unusual, mood today, I hope OH has called the doctor, in case……
And I’ll certainly be on the up this week! 🤪
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You will and I’ll have enough time to work on my mood 😀
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I eye lesser celandines growing along paths with envy, wishing a few would seed in my garden. I’m sure I’d regret it if they did (possibly) but they are lovely. The sight of a newly emerged seedling is a wonderful thing.
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You have their posh cousin don’t you, Brazen Hussy?
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I do, but I’m never confident it’s going to survive another year & it doesn’t seem to do the old go forthing & multiplying thing.
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I understand better why I have trouble getting rid of lesser celandine, you gave us the botanical explanation that I didn’t know.
Already peach blossoms! So early … Anyway luckily I don’t have them here because the night frosts would have burned them
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Your peaches seem to be far more sensible than mine, they really should have waited a couple of weeks. This tree was grown from a kernal so is perhaps a bit more wayward than most.
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The peach blossom is exquisite, here’s hoping the stars are aligned and you get some beautiful fruit.
I need something to grow in paving cracks, I hadn’t considered lesser celandine although from other comments it might be a case of “be careful what you wish for”!
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I would recommend celandine caution! Fingers crossed for the peach, we have had some chilly nights recently but they are in a sheltered, sunny spot so ……
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My Peach is still under wraps, I shall go and peak in case it is feeling full of Spring vigour yet. Not that it has fruited any year since I’ve had it🤔 There is always Hope!
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Always hope!
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I’ll cheer with you for your peach tree. If the lovely blossom is anything to go by, your peaches should be perfectly formed and delicious. Those are lovely richly-colour hyacinths. I’m just about to do the same as you have done with your hyacinths – evict my garden mint from a large terracotta pot and put my Brunnera ‘Alexander’s Great’ into it. The mint will probably languish in a plastic pot for an unknown amount of time. I hope you’re still skipping around the garden. 😁
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Been doing some more skipping today, that wind is bloomin’ chilly, it was more necessity that joy. 😀 I’ll try to remember to remind you about the mint, don’t rely on me though!
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I should join you in celebrating the celandine but there I was trying to dig them out this morning! What a beautiful peach blossom. Lovely in itself.
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I may well have to make do with just the blossom!
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Lovely selections – the muscari is especially nice. Celandine is considered noxious around here for sure. Some people would argue that giving pollen and nectar without the right plants for the juvenile insects is a false economy because if there are no caterpillars or grubs to feed birds and other insects and small mammals. Over here some people are very hardcore militant on this point, but I like to point out that as long as you have a variety of native plants as well, the non native plants can fill gaps. For example, when only dandelions are blooming, I see many insects nectaring there. I see the first bees (mostly non native honeybees) at my non native weeping cherry. Red Admirals on the muscari, all this before my earliest natives are even up, much less blooming. I won’t probably plant celandine, but it is a nice little flower!
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I agree, a combination is good, many aren’t as selective as some would like to believe.
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I had to go back and reread last week’s post. I certainly didn’t think you were whinging, just saying it as it was. But then you are my Sis, and I understand you. This is the whinging period, the mood one is thrown into cos of things happening around the world maybe. However there is nothing like plants to cheer one up, some coming your way soon will hopefully help to cheer the mood. It is definitely Buttercup period here.
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I am very excited, thank you Sis!
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Celandine, whether lesser or otherwise, concerns me. It is pretty, and I would like to try it; but those who are familiar with it find it to be disdainful. So far, I have not tried it, and will not do so in my home garden. (My home garden is located within a forest where only a few invasive species are established. I can get away with trying some invasive species at work, if they are already invading the area.)
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Best avoid it anywhere it might take over. I will be digging some up in the knowledge that it will still return next year. There is something wonderfully contrary about that!
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Like silver wattle; it is too pretty in bloom to talk smack about.
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There you go, see, not so hard is it? 🤣 I hope you continue to be in a happy mood all weekend. I’ve just come in from a couple of hours in the garden, mostly picking up debris, weeding out the bittercress and baby’s tears and cutting down part of my Fatsia japonica which had gone yellow! And yes lots of lesser celandine around though I had a good go at removing it last year! Not to mention the dreadful three cornered leeks! Nice to be out in the sun and getting my hands dirty. There’s nothing like it to improve the mood xx
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It is hard to be miserable out in the garden at this time of year, just off out myself now! Have a good week x
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Nice six! I found some zinnia seedlings this morning and am still delighted. Fingers crossed for peaches.
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That is a great find! A lucky omen I think.
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I had to chuckle at your beginning. 🙂 Yes, sometimes I need the reminder to stay upbeat, too. You have some beauties and accomplishments in your garden, for sure. The Peach tree bloom is so beautiful. Happy Six!
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Thanks Beth, this is the time of year when anything seems possible!
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Good luck with your Glaucidium, not a thing I’ve grown but my sort of plant. I don’t mind a bit of Celandine but it’s an aggressive spreader which I don’t want everywhere. Never in a million years would I plant it.
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I am hoping that at least one more glaucidium will germinate to give me better odds. We will see.
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I’ve noted to myself that whenever I’m weighed down with woes, I should just go re-read some of your posts. Your turn of phrase always brings a smile. You could probably write about … let’s see… what would be the most boring topic on earth?…. reading appliance manuals… you could probably write about that in an entertaining way! But, what riches that you write about and share the love of gardening! 🙂
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Oh, I’m blushing, thank you so much. x
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Haha… She’s not wrong! You do have lovely way with words 😍
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