End Of Month View - March

From above, my new front garden still looks pretty bare ...



... but a closer look at the borders shows they are now full of plants coming into flower.



There is a Vinca creeping its way all along two sides of the triangle. I will probably try to remove this eventually, as it's a bit too rampant, but at the moment it's keeping the ground covered and providing some much-needed colour.



There are Primulas popping up all over the place ...



... including in the lawn, which seems to have decided it's a wildflower meadow and is also spotted with the purple Viola Cornuta I showed you in my last post (as well as dandelions, thistles, and enormous amounts of moss).



Some white Hellebores have opened up to join the dark pinkish ones I featured in my last end of month view ...



... and you can finally see what the previous owners did with that horrible stone wall - they planted it with Muscari. I'm not a big fan of these and won't be sad to lose them when we get rid of the wall, but like the Vinca they are providing much-needed colour at the moment.



There are also some lilac flowers growing down the side of the wall in a couple of places - I don't recognise these, so should be grateful if anyone could provide an ID.  The flowers look a bit like Geraniums, but they are some sort of rockery plant, perhaps an Aubretia or a Phlox?



There is not very much I can do to the garden at the moment, but I have cut back all the Asters, the dead stems of which you might have noticed in my last couple of end of month view posts, and the front borders are looking a little tidier. I'm going to dig up some clumps of Asters and put them in a pot so we can keep them when the garden is finally bulldozed!



I've already dug up and potted all the Crocus and Narcissus I could find, but I missed this little clump, so will have to find another pot.



I've also dug up all the Crocus from the corner bed in the back garden, along with a few Anemone Blanda which came up and flowered between end of month views. R hoed the weeds from the straight part of the bed and dug out some more Japanese Anemones. He also removed the broken bits of fence, and I was going to say how much better that was looking ...



... but the strong winds we've had over the last couple of days have blown some more bits of it down. We'd hoped to get away with just repairing it for now, but since I took the photo below the whole thing has pretty much broken away from the post at the house end, so it looks as though we will have to replace it as soon as we can.



For more end of month views, visit the Patient Gardener's blog.