Easter Flowers

[callmemadam]

It’s wonderful how these fritillaries are always out for Good Friday. After a frosty start, it’s been a beautiful day, although chilly. Now it’s clouding over, so I was out dead-heading daffodils just in time. Why don’t more people bother with this simple task? I drive down the road shouting, ‘Dead-head your daffodils!’, safe in the knowledge that the culprits can’t hear me.



This Dicentra is one of ‘my’ plants, which I put in last spring. I’m delighted to see it up again and looking so much at home.

In other news, I have just been phoned by the optician *on Good Friday*. Whatever next? The poor woman wanted me to make an appointment, which I declined to do until next week.

Comments

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

I've been dead-heading daffodils.

Very envious of your weather; it's cold and grey here, and being Good Friday, I would like to spend it in the garden (when else do you plant potatoes?).

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Good for you! Bad luck on the potatoes; what about our old traditions, eh?

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Is deadheading daffodils purely for tidiness or does it have a horticultural purpose?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Partly tidiness, as I think dead flowers look awful. Plus, it stops them seeding, so they build up strength to flower next year. Ideally, you'd feed them after flowering, but I seldom get round to it.

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

The fritillaries are fantastic. I love the colour. It was chilly here first thing but turned out quite sunny and warmer than yesterday.

I do actually remember when everything closed down for Good Friday.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I was so pleased to find the fritillaries already here in the garden. I tried them in my old one, but it was too dry and they always died out.

Me too! It's not a holiday in Scotland, though, which is surprising.

[hartleyhare.livejournal.com]

There are fritillaries and dicentra in my garden, too - I put them in last year, and was *so* pleased when they emerged this year.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

This time of year I go prowling around looking for new shoots, saying, 'Where are you?' So it's lovely when they appear.

[lethe1]

I didn't know that about fritillaries, but today I walked past a house that had four flower boxes with fritillaries, and I just had to snap a picture. I love them.

Hehe, I had a dentist's appointment this afternoon. :P
It's amazing how many people have to work on Good Friday.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I'd never have thought of putting fritillaries in a container but it obviously works.
They grow in damp meadows in the wild. The Magdalen college ones are famous.

Dentist? Poor you.