Through the Garden Gate--April 2020

April has been a lovely month in the garden.  Lockdown has meant we have had more time to spend gardening and the weather has been beautiful. We have had lovely days working with the sun on our backs or sitting relaxing and admiring the garden.

The borders are filling out now and becoming more colourful each day.  I'm sure some plants are flowering earlier, it must be the warm weather which has brought them on.

The tulips have been lovely, all grown in pots, I must grow more next year.  The Amelanchier tree is the first to produce blossom, such dainty flowers, but they don't last long.

Along the grass verges outside our house are rows of cherry blossom trees. These look amazing when they are all flowering. The crab apple in the garden is now flowering, it has lovely white blossom.  

This little area in front of the shed is one of my favourites. It was newly planted up last year.  I love the blue Camassia and pink Aquilegia with the blue of the Ceaonothus further back.

 Aquliegias are popping up all over the garden now, they are a lovely cottage garden plant and although they seed all over the place I do love them.  The Alliums are about to burst into flower, hopefully in next month's garden review I will have a good photo of them.

At this time of year we are regular visitors to our local garden centres and plant nurseries. But lockdown has meant we can no longer visit them.  After much searching around I finally found that some nurseries are offering click and collect or a telephone  home delivery service. How relieved I was to be able to still buy compost and container bedding plants.

I am linking this post with Sarah's blog  at 'Down by the Sea' for her monthly
'Through the Garden Gate' post