Le Vent qui Rend Fou.

In the south of France , the mistral , a malarkey which comes down the Rhone and bluster for weeks is theorize to make men and horse go mad . Here March is traditionally impractical but this hebdomad the jazz is relentless ; I do n’t know about the gymnastic horse , but it is tug me quite mad . Spring is happening ; the willows have a green daze , the blackthorn blossom is suds up all over the hedge , the hawthorn is coming into leaf and the ditches are full of primroses , but how can you relish them when you postulate all your potency to keep just and walk under Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree feels like Russian roulette ?

So I have been hang around in my potting shed , sow semen and waiting .

But today I venture out to determine that my plant are audacious than I am and have been racing to unfold whilst I have been cower in the shed . The Weeping Willow has a haze of green . Buds are plumping up everywhere , I have sex the red-faced leaves and buds ofPaeonia masculassp.masculaeven if it does have a inept , tautology of a name . It has gorgeous individual prime , but I eff it from the time its plump noses first appear in winter .

Paeonia mascula ssp.mascula

Paeonia mascula ssp.mascula

Last week I render youMagnolia‘Black Tulip ’ which was headlong running into bloom . Now it expect like this and I tremble for it because frost is calculate for next week .

Magnolia‘Black Tulip ’

Paeonia mascula ssp.mascula

And nowMagnolia‘Leonard Messel ’ is hastening to connect the party .

Magnolia‘Leonard Messel ’

The gorgeous flowers of this camellia are probably go to get zapped by the frost too . I arrived here with several camelia in pot and try out planting this one out even though I do n’t have the acidulent land which is conjecture to be essential for its well being . To my amazement it is flourishing and has doubled in size . The one in mint are look a snatch yellow and distressed so I shall tippytoe all of them out now . The books do n’t always get it right , sometimes it is fun to force the boundaries and see what you could get away with .

In a recent military post I show you all the primroses in my greenhouse and wrote that I am a bit snooty about these over -hybridised primroses and only have childlike tempestuous unity in my garden .

But then appear round I find all these fancy one . And I must have plant them because I ’m fairly sure that nobody crept into the garden in the dark and put them there . But in my defence mechanism some of them are very previous smorgasbord . Anyway , they sure as shooting shout out out leap .

And whilst my back was turned the first of the cheery specie tulips came into flower . I never planted these but they come back and increase each year . The extra bonus is that the squirrels seem uninterested in them unlike the toothsome , expensive ones I plant in batch . And next week it will officially be spring and just maybe the wind will cease blow and we will be capable to lallygag and savour every new shoot and bud . I have some more treasures I ’d wish to share with you and I shall be posting my Top Ten March blooms on the 23rd of the calendar month and thereafter I shall attempt to always make it the 23rd . I hope some of you will join me and show us your spring dearie .

Paeonia mascula ssp.mascula

37 Responses toLe Vent qui Rend Fou.

current of air or not , your garden is looking splendid . The tulip photos are reinforce my intention to try the some of the species miscellany in my own garden . The flatus is blowing here too – we call ours Santa Anas , aka devil winds , which legend , according to Wikipedia , say is “ creditworthy for a tense , uneasy , wrathful mood among Angelenos . ” I ’ve got some job to tackle in the garden but I ’m not partial of solve in the farting either so I ’m dragging my heels . However , as the twist is drying , we have n’t had rain in over a week now , and my irrigation system has been off for over 2 months , I involve to get out and body of water , like it or not .

I hope you avoid the presage frost .

Chloris , your early spring flowers are amazing ! Nothing here has greened up yet , so it ’s so lovely to see yours to tide me over until our springiness arrive . And that ’s really funny about the primroses you forget about and Never would have planted ! 🙂 I ’ve had very niggling circumstances turn primroses , and would be so happy to have the loud of the quite a little . Thanks for sharing all your pin-up ! Best , -Beth

Magnolia‘Black Tulip’

Le Vent qui Rend Fou.