A ready made Spring garden, just add water and wait!

This is how the border had looked before I decided to divide it up and space it out. I did it so early purely because I didn't want to get cold outside in a month's time but of course if means I miss out on enjoying the border as it was. Me and my impatience. I'll probably find my giant (and expensive) allium  bulbs will either shoot too early and get frost damage or else be eaten by slugs in the damp ground. And it will all be my fault!

I do love these funny pineapple lilies. I have four but only two have come to anything much this year, standing like bookends either side of the conservatory windows. With the heuchera infront of it, picking up the purple on those tiny flowers in the main body of the plant it really does sing for it's supper.

 On the other side of the garden, in the seriously in need to attention monochrome border, my Japanese anemond lights up the patch. It's so utterly white and almost glows in the dark.

 I love this hollyhock. It is such a lovely lemon colour and such a fat pom pom of a flower, there really is a plant for everyone out there, Luke's is Salvia Patens Blue which I have managed to buy two of at 75% of it's usual price but that's because there are only three gentian flower buds on each large plant. But, God-willing, there is always next year.