Tulipa sylvestris (I call it the Medusa tulip because of the way the emerging flowers contort) is putting on a lovely show in the woodland borders. Soundly perennial too. #fairviewyearround

The Pieris and Cercidiphyllum are untouched by the two recent frosts but the top most rhododendron flowers have suffered some damage. #fairviewyearround

The emerging flowers of Tiarella and foliage of Polygonatum verticillatum ‘Himalayan Giant’ amongst clouds of Lunaria annua ‘Corfu Blue’ #fairviewyearround

A superb little subshrub (it’s neither woody or herbaceous) with a long flowering period, Veronica umbrosa ‘Georgia Blue’. A Roy Lancaster introduction from Georgia in 1979. #fairviewyearround

Lysichiton x hortensis is the delightful cream coloured hybrid between the thuggish L.americanus and the more refined L.camschatcensis. I obtained this from Beth Chatto Plants & Gardens before they stopped selling it due to The Invasive Alien Species Order. #fairviewyearround

The rather lovely Pleione Ueli Wackernagel ‘Pearl’ in flower in the greenhouse. A good doer here and a firm favourite. #fairviewyearround

Pollarded willows and summer snowflakes by the boardwalk plus a new planting of candelabra primulas. #fairviewyearround

Ipheion uniflorum subsp. tandiliense is my favourite member of this genus and judging from the nibbled leaves and flowers, someone else’s too. #fairviewyearround

The first of the peonies to flower here, Paeonia mascula subsp. russoi (obtained as this). #fairviewyearround

Alpine Garden Society Scottish Rock Garden Club show at Hexham today- under SRGC rules - so Best in Show plant wins Forrest Medal for Frank Hoyle - super Androsace villosa kosopolyanskii. Photo Peter Maquire.

I told my wife this evening that I was going to take her to see Paris in the spring. I think there was a slight misunderstanding.

We had a photographer here today to photograph trilliums for a magazine article. Lots of other lovely spring things flowering too.
Trillium chloropetalum FCC Form
Erythronium californicum et al
Cardamine heptaphylla frilly form
E. ‘Kinfaun’s Sunrise’ #fairviewyearround

Three of our native primulas in flower at the moment. Primula vulgaris and P.elatior on the roadside verge and P.veris on the log shed roof. #fairviewyearround #fairviewverge

The spring ephemerals are looking lovely at the moment. These two trout lilies are continuing the display. Erythronium californicum and E. ‘Joanna’. #fairviewyearround

Pulsatilla albana from seed sown in 2016. The seedlings languished in a pot for several years before being finally planted in this trough last year. #fairviewyearround

Pseudotrillium (Trillium) rivale, the earliest and smallest of trilliums grown here. I lost all my plants in the winter of 2011, but these replacements are doing well and starting to seed about, just sorry that I no longer have the lovely cv. ‘Purple Heart’. #fairviewyearround

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The green roof on the log shed had started to rot and so this weekend a new roof using marine ply has been installed. #fairviewyearround

Erythronium revolutum in the woodland borders, seeding into the steps and a stone trough. Last night some of the flowers had been taken and sure enough there were tell tail signs. The cloven hoof of either Satan, or worse, roe deer. #fairviewyearround

My neighbours Magnolia soulangeana is looking magnificent at the moment. I always worry when the house changes owners that someone will chop it down, especially when in some years it gets frosted and turns brown overnight.