Its the end of April, and time for another “End of the Month View” which is hosted by Patient Gardener.

I actually took this picture two days ago in the evening sunlight.

Its raining now, and although we needed rain -

I just hope that it stops before the summer, [...]]]>

Its the end of April, and time for another “End of the Month View” which is hosted by Patient Gardener.

I actually took this picture two days ago in the evening sunlight.

Its raining now, and although we needed rain -

I just hope that it stops before the summer, unlike last year.

The main difference in my garden at this time of year is that the large weeping willow is now in full leaf.

It is always one of the earliest trees to come into leaf and it is the most amazing fresh green colour.

Onto the areas that I am (supposed) to be concentrating on ….

“The Kitchen Garden”

There has been very little change in the kitchen garden, although I have put up two teepees of sweet peas.

I have also found the bamboo “cages” – they were being thrown out by a shop who had received a delivery of ornaments in them, currently they are protecting the lettuce, which are still so small that you cannot see them.

What you can see is the huge amount of weeds that have germinated in the last two days because of the rain.  My kitchen garden has been woefully neglected this year and spending time on it is my task for this weekend.

One (the only) improvement from this time last month is that the climbers I planted last year have started to take off.

I planted Akebia quinata (chocolate vine) and Actinidia kolomikta

I adore the Akebia, I had it in my last garden and it was a wonderful climber for screening the fence.  I hope it is as happy in this garden.

The other two areas that I am focusing on this year also show minimal change.

The first area is the sunny border, (on the left of the image below) which for this year is being planted up with annuals.

I have sown a lot of the plants, but they are still too small to be put out

I knew I made a mistake by getting my deck chair out – when I did it, Shed-man said that rain would come … and it did!

The other area that I am concentrating on in the “End of the Month Views” is the middle pond.

What can I say … obviously I hope it will look better later in the year.

Parts of my garden are actually looking quite pretty at the moment, so to make me feel better about the garden as a whole, this is my spring border

At the moment the Tulips in the garden are a joy – and deserve a whole post to themselves, but I just had to leave you with a close up of these.

I love them.

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