Here are a few more pics from my garden - taken late March..
Clematis armandii grows along the trellis which screens the greenhouse from sight ; I call it "The Chinaman" - the trellis also hosts several other mid-summer and later Clematis hybrids, honeysuckle. wisteria, etc. These are white flowers - two to three inches across. with lovely large dark green leathery leaves. In mild winters it flowers as early as late January, here.
The white starry flowered bush down at the bottom of the set of four pics, is Magnolia stellata . I never seem to live long enough in one place ( joke) oto grow one of the big Magnolia trees - the best one in England, further west along the South Coast is actually the first Magnolia to be planted in England - now 150 (?) years old and that stretches a length greater than my trellis ( 10 metres ) . But stellata makes a nice bush like this in the six years since it was planted in what started off as a builders site - the house was built for us , so all the garden is "mine" .
I do like plants which seed themselves , and I planted a few Muscari bulbs of several species, as ground cover below my cultuivated blackberries ( we always use the word cultivated in England, since they also grow wild along every lane, all over the country - but the wild berries are smaller and later and not as sweet as the modern hybrids which I grow ). Thes have done well - the are a river of blue, somewhat foreshortened by the camera angle.
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