I hope this Monday, the Easter bank holiday you might have time to pick a little something from your garden to bring into the house. If you do perhaps you could share it with Cathy. Send her a link and you could find bloggers from all over looking at your flowers. What a nice thing to do.
This is a sprig of sparaxis. Bold, bright and brash but small and in its own bottle as it does not want to share space with the others.
The others are tulips, Cerinthe, Forget me nots, Brunnera and Pulmonaria. In shades of white marked with plum to pinks and blues and darkest near black tulip Queen of the night. 
A quick post this Monday. Food to prepare, tidying to be done. Happy Easter. D.
Lovely vases. Sparaxis is new to me. And that dark tulip is mesmerising! 🙂 Hope you had a Happy Easter too.
The sparaxis is a lovely splash of prange, isn’t it? I had some free sparaxis bulbs but can’t remember when they were planted – when dod you plant yours. I read they need to be lifted if you want them to grow another year but I don’t think I will bother. Or on second thoughts if they perform brilliantly perhaps I will! I like your spring mixture in the dinky creamware pot, a selection that could have come out of my garden too. That stripey tuiip must surely be the same as the one on my Aldi mix. Hope you can nearly grab the coat tails of the garden, after a busy weekend! 🙂
Maybe that tulip was from Aldi! I’d forgotten I had some from there.
I don’t lift the sparaxis but they are in the raised beds. Lost most in winter of 17 these are the stragglers.
As for the garden…..
My Six on Saturday show Aldi’s Purple Mix. I shall leave the sparaxis as they were free anyway – they were also mixed colours which is not something I would generally choose, but let’s see what they are like when/if they flower. Much as we would like the rain (well, I do), the gardens will gallop away even faster when it comes…
I’m holding on!
Well done – hold on tight! 🙂
Lovely and I am going to search up Sparaxis, sounds like a planet on Star Trek.
What a great collection of blooms – it must be a good year for cerinthe, mine are putting on a great show. I seem to lose tulips though. Some came up blind this year and some seem gone forever. Must look into what they need.
Thanks Sandra. Tulips are really annuals and even when they come back they are a bit smaller, good drainage certainly helps keep them going beyond one year.
Thanks for confirming that for me – I thought they might be, but I have been told by other people that theirs come up year after year – so I was confused.
Different varieties
Sparaxis is a new one for me. Although I had seen it around, this is the firs time I have ever worked with it directly. I am also told that this is the best year for it. Once it dies back, we are to dig and move it away from plants that are crowding it.
It’s a bit brash. Small but in your face.
Mine stay as is year after year. Don’t really like it as much as other flowers
But at least it is reliable.