A brown April
After our almost-record-breakingly hot March, we have had a chilly start to April. The early rhododendron and my magnolia have both gone brown. If the magnolia’s flowers were meant to be that colour, they would be quite pretty.
A frost-damaged magnolia flower
I have planted the Euonymus europaeus Red Cascade. The poor thing looks like a terrified sacrifice victim tied to a stake.
Euonymus europaeus Red Cascade
I have also planted the small bay tree. I am going to have to rearrange my black polythene compost bags to try and keep the weeds out as much as possible. Ultimately I need lots of ground cover plants, but while the shrubs are establishing I think they would appreciate not having the competition.
I repotted my three Callicarpa and the rhododendron into larger pots because they were getting too thirsty too quickly. I realised at this point that my blueberries, which are of four different varieties, do not have any identification on them. I think I could look them all up and place them in order of fruiting, and then decide from observations which is which. My dad thinks I should get a life.