News flash: The first swallows arrived on April 3rd
Tulip Mania
Tulips have really come out this week. For many years we have planted Tulip Red Impression all along the left hand border to our garden. It is hard to get the effect in one photograph but standing looking at the display with the sunlight shining across the flowers is just magical. Most of them come up each year but we look for any gaps and replenish them. Probably we plant around 100 extra Red impression each year plus many other tulips and bulbs. See blog with bulb list.
Looking along the same border. There is a small cobble path running through this part of the border although it is covered in twigs from the tree above (another job waiting to be done).
The same border with Anemone Blanda Atrocoerulea and Leucojum Aestivum 
Leucojum Aestivum which resembles a snowdrop but is much larger. Worth a space in any garden.
Looking from the back of the same border.
Another part of the same border.
Tulip Turkestanica a species of tulip native to central Asia. It was first described by Eduard August von Regel in 1873 as a variety of T. sylvestris, then elevated to full species status two years later.
Tulip Turkestanica on the edge of the “Dingly Dell” border which is actually at the back of the Japanese border.
Another tulip species, Tulip Humilis
Tulip Ballerina lining the path to the pergola with Tulip Apricot Impression in the background.
Tulip Ballerina
Close up of the lovely Tulip Ballerina 
Sitting under the pergola looking towards the corner bed. Tulip Gavota in the foreground.
Tulip Gavota
From the pergola across the main lawn with Tulip Ballerina in the foreground.
Tulip Ad Rem at the back of the corner bed. When the sun comes out Tulip Ad Rem really fluoresces.
Tulip Ad Ram
Tulip Apricot Impression together with many alliums.
Tulip Apricot Impression
Tulip Apricot Impression
Tulip Purissima (white) and Tulip Beauty Queen (pink) both plant in 2007
Tulip Indian Summer and Tulip Annie Schilder
Tulip Annie Schilder with Tulip Indian Summer in the background
Tulip Indian Summer and it has a wonderful perfume a bit like wallflowers.
A final view across to the border full of Tulip Red Impression with the evening shadows across the lawn.
News flash: First rose in bloom!
As I walked back to the house I noticed that Rosa Old Blush China had started flowering
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| This week | Total since June 19th | Average per week |
| 30 | 679 | 16 |
Glebe House Garden 
Tulips gosh!, Elizabeth. l
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Thanks Elizabeth, see you Wednesday
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How beautiful your garden looks and your tulips are magnificent. I can only grow them in pots due to our wet winters and heavy soil so am very envious!
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thanks Pauline. We make the tulips provide interest before the veracious comes on in the summer
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What a stunning display, like Pauline I am seriously envious. What a treat for your garden visitors!
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Hi Kate. Many thanks. I just hope they are still out on April 23rd when there is the event
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You have truly spectacular gardens! What gorgeous colors. Still sitting in the drab tail-end of winter here, so thank you for those marvelous photos!
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Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. when the garden blooms like this it is very hard to leave it and come indoors.
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A sight for sore eyes! The few tulips I planted in containers in the Fall have not been too successful I’m afraid, I think the critters have been at it again.
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That is bad luck Loretta. As you can see they like our soil although one year I did catch a rat having lunch on our bulbs
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Your garden looks fabulous with all those beautiful tulips and the green grass!
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Hi Anca. Many thanks. The green grass is classic English garden feature.
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Wow! Tulip heaven is a very apt description I think. Thanks so much for my sneak preview. And the tea and scones were so delicious. I went home smiling. See you on the 23rd. Hopefully. x
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Thanks Karen, nice to see you well again
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Forgot to say. No swallows here yet. Keeping an anxious look out for them. x
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Lots here now.
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That is a wonderful display. Ballerina lights up any spot but I am liking you T. ‘Ad Rem’ for the effect too.
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Many thanks. We have just been going around thinking what to change next year!
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Goodness, I hope you had a party or open gate to show off the spring celebration in your garden! I would tell you my favorite if I could only decide:^) Love the little pops of blue under some of the tall bulbs.
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Thank you Marian. We are having people round on 23rd but I think many of the tulips will have faded by then.(see advert on the side column)
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Gorgeous tulips, what a stunning display! When do you plant them? And do you leave them in the ground once they’ve flowered or dig them up for next year?
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Thanks Jen. Some have been in the ground for many years without lifting, If they do not survive I do not plant them again, New ones get planted in November/December.
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It looks spectacular. You’ve convinced me to try again with tulips. In pots by the sound of it.
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Many thanks. They do fill a useful gap between snowdrops and summer.
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Lovely to see so many of my own favourites in your garden; they look so different against the green grass. The tulips that have been in the ground for some years are all flowering now too; those that had been chilled are virtually over. But it is lovely to extend the season.
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Thank you Christina. Red red and green are complementary colours so that always works well.
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Your garden looks immaculate. I’m sure you’ll tell me of 10 jobs you can’t find time to do but it looks fab from here. I had to come and see the tulips and they were worth the wait for it to load on this very slow computer.
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Thanks, it is far from immaculate but I am glad you were able to see the tulips. I do reduce the photograph sizes before I load them to wordpress so maybe you have a slow broadband.
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What a fabulous display of tulips! The large groupings really make them stand out. I have trouble doing this because I’m always planting around perennials planted too close together. You have a beautiful garden!
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Well we have a similar problem but the tulips just have to do what they can. The tulips are almost over now although there will be a few for the end of the month edition.
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