The sun has warmed up the soil and nudged bare stems into action.

I’m thrilled with the wisteria, planted last year so I had no expectation of blooms for at least a few years but look, it is smothered in buds now! The variety is wisteria sinensis ‘prolific’, so perhaps the clue was in the name.

The apple tree espalier trained across the front of pergola is making more effort this year. Variety is Pitmaston Pineapple, there may be an apple or two later this year.

I was pleased the camassia reappeared and has several healthy buds. Even more pleased that the three bulbs I planted in the pot and overwintered are also in bud, albeit a little stumpy.

This pot is by the patio. This is the before shot – as in before the slugs find it! I used Strulch last year and left it as a mulch, I wonder how long its mollusc defenses last?

The clematis Hyde Hall that’s growing through the pittisporum is in bud. Will that make it a clemisporum?

and finally a little cheat to fit four in to one! The tree peony is still in a pot but three blooms this year. There’s something fabulously flamboyant about those flowers. The geum is always the first to bloom here but must have heard I’ve moved on from my orange phase. The lilac is in the front garden, having survived the window fitters. There are abundant double blooms on the quince this year; maybe it hopes to distract me from its runners currently seeking to take-over the garden.

That’s my six, there may be more next week. In the meantime, call by Jim’s to check-in with the rest of the sixers.

Time for the factor 50 🙂