It’s strange to choose a black flower to celebrate the glorious spring bloom in my garden but they are the striking note among the whites of the wild alliums, the lilac of irises, the violet of decorative alliums and dutch irises and the pink of english roses. Left in place since 2004, among the first bulbs to be planted in my garden, the black tulips keep on flowering and moltiplicating among the white narcissi.
In two weeks, from easter to the end of April my garden exploded with the hues of springblooming flowers. The ceanothus this year was generous with its show but also all the irises were showing off. The show anyway it’s for the moment concentrated in the front garden where, after the red tulips disappeared, the german, dalmatian and dutch irises along with the globemaster alliums took the lead. The pennisetum are waiting their turn with aquilegia Nora Barlow and red paeonies.
