Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. Sorry I am a day late but life rather got in the way. I also have to admit that nothing very different is happening in My Hesperides Garden regarding foliage this month.Pauline at Lead up the Garden Path has written a lovely post, describing the promise that each new foliage brings to her garden, do visit her post, if you haven’t already (she wrote her post before me this month!)
Foliage is still obviously the most important feature in my garden, it is just that there is really nothing new to report and rather than just prattle on this month, I’m going to leave you with an image of the foliage planting that always looks great in my garden.
Upper Drive Border
The flowering shrub that couldn’t be left out of the image is Lonicera fragrantissima; it is flowering better than ever before.
What foliage would you like to share with us this month? Just link to and from this post is the usual way.
Good gardening, and enjoy spring!
Your foliage always looks so smart Christina, such neat shapes. Love the Lonicera fragrantissima, maybe one to consider for a sunny spot in the woodland.
The perfume from the Lonicera is the best there is in my garden, I love it! It tolerates dry conditions and shade so your woodland would be ideal.
Here, the old timers call Lonicera fragrantisima “Sweet Breath of Spring.” Isn’t that lovely?
Yes what a lovely name.
Such a beautiful shot, Christina. And I know the fragrance of that L. fragrantisima–I can *almost* smell it here! Thanks for hosting, here’s mine:
https://mygardenersays.com/2017/02/22/the-green-of-spring/
The perfume is wonderful even if it shouldn’t have been in a GBFD post!!!
I didn’t know that lonicera was called sweet breath of spring. I learn something new every day. Your garden looks lovely Christina. Mine is currently being battered to death by storm Doris. We’ve had to go into Nottingham, and it was such a frightening journey weaving in and out of fallen branches and dodging pedestrians being blown off the pavements. It was like driving through mulch, so many twigs and leaves have been brought down. Just looking at my snowdrops which as literally shivering in the wind. The large flowered ones have been torn to pieces. Luckily most of my snowdrops are common tiny nivalis. x
I’m sorry Doris is causing so many problems. Keep safe. Of course in the U.K. the Lonicera flowers all winter so the name is a bit odd.
Christina the Lonicera Fragantissima is beautiful and stands out with the green of the rest of the foliage. The photo is very beautiful. Happy gardening. Greetings from Margarita.
thank you Margarita
Your garden is looking beautiful, as always, Christina!
Looks like things are greening up and buds are unfurling. It’ll be a while yet for that to happen here. 😉
Yes, there is new growth on the evergreens.
I really have no foliage to speak of, except for our Japanese Yew, which I prefer to ignore.
I feel much the same this month, I almost didn’t post this month.
Your Lonicera is so full of blooms, it must smell wonderful. The foliage looks good in your garden all year round and gives it such amazing structure. Here there are plenty of plump buds promising tender new foliage very soon.
Evergreens cope much better with the drought than deciduous trees and shrubs, in some ways this surprises me but I suppose it shouldn’t. Growth occurs in early spring but even more in autumn which of course is when deciduous trees are losing their leaves.
Your garden looks to be much more advanced than mine and I can imagine the fragrance wafting on the air. Your garden Always looks lovely Christina
Thank you Doris, I appreciate your kind comments.
Prattle? I am sure conversation with you would be more than just prattle, Christina! 🙂 Interesting to see and hear about your L fragrantissima, as after having thought my winter flowering honeysuckles were underperforming they are actually just a bit later than previously, although none are as handsome as yours! My post is at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/garden-bloggers-foliage-day-branches-and-leaves/
It’s great to see the delicate white of the Lonicera stand out against the firm bulk of the evergreens – what the structure is all about, I suppose! With apologies for posting So Very Late, I wrote about the new growth of our pomegranate this month in a rather rambling post…: https://www.smallsunnygarden.com/2017/02/25/as-february-flies-past/
You don’t need to apologize for posting late when even I wasn’t in time. I look forward to reading your post.