Pictures of the garden in March

forsythia

The inevitable forsythia, but it's him who trumpet forth the spring.

   

Big white croci later than the colored.

crocus  

narcissus

There's no spring without nacissuses.

 

These yellow narcissuses have really enormous corollas, up to twelve centimeters in diameter.

narcissus  
primula vulgaris

These white, roses and cream primroses resow it-self in the pebbles of a path.

 

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     The hybrid primroses with big flowers require a division every two years to remain very flower-bearing and not to degenerate.

 
hyacinthus

These hyacinths are faithfull to the meeting for ten years.

 

This pulmonaria arrived alone there. It found refuge under a juniperus.

pulmonaria longifolia  

vinca major 'Variegata'

 

 

 

I cut completely this variegated periwinkle in May to make it blossom again but especially to limit its development because it advances very fast .

 

The hellebore of Corsica, one of my favourite plants, is in flowers from the end of January to the end of May. And his foliage is magnificent. Among others qualities, it grows fast and resow it-self abundantly in any grounds and even with the foot in the water several times in winter as here.

helleborus argutifolius  
sedum spectabile

I like these small plump and very regular pillows of the sedums spectabile which grow.

 

Young leaves of lupin underlined by rainy droplets.

lupinus hybride de Russel  
magnolia x loebneri 'Leonard Messel'

Flower bud of magnolia. Meeting in April for the complete blooming.

 

The leaves of the gunnera point early in March, what obliges to remove the protection so that they don't rot. But they're still afraid of the night frosts. Previous years, I surrounded the plant of a plastic to protect it.

gunnera manicata  
plantations in wait

The winter was so rainy this year for which these plants wait for three months. Impossible to handle the spade in an earth so sticky.