Kedi-Gato's garden

[Admin]

lovely pictures i am sure the wild primrose should be making a visit soon will see if i can find mine amongst the weeds outside..
The spring flowers are allways very bright suppose they are the only splash of colour around..

[kedigato]

Our crocus have finally appeared, mainly just odd ones here and there -













Here is a nice ivy-covered tree stump -





Lunaria -

[windy]

Yay!!! It's Spring...do a little dance!!!!! Thanks for those pics KG, really cheered me up

[kedigato]

Thanks windy. Here are a couple more. We have quite a few of these scattered around the garden this year, must have seeded themselves out.


Lungwort (Pulmonaria augustifolia)

[Admin]

If you look into the flowerlore of lungwort the spots on the leaves are phlegm and the leaves lung shaped....
Must be colder in germany kedi as the crocus has been out a while here..

[Admin]

From the modern Herbal

Its popular and Latin names seem to have been derived from the speckled appearance of the leaves resembling that of the lungs, and their use in former days was partly founded on the doctrine of signatures.

The Lungwort sold by druggists to-day is not this species, but a Moss, known also as Oak Lungs and Lung Moss.

The Lungwort formerly held a place in almost every garden, under the name of 'Jerusalem Cowslip'; and it was held in great esteem for its reputed medicinal qualities in diseases of the lungs.

Sir J. E. Smith says that:
'every part of the plant is mucilaginous, but its reputation for coughs arose not from this circumstance, but from the speckled appearance of the leaves, resembling the lungs!'

[kedigato]

That is interesting, Wf. No, it is not really colder here, it's about the same as over in England, don't know why the crocus are so late.

[Admin]

Well the crocus and daffodils are all out here they make a welcome sight after the days of no flowers..

[kedigato]

We had some frost and a light sprinkling of snow in the night. The pond has a film of ice again, this time with bubbles in it -





- and the garden has a nice dusting of snow -

[windy]

Brrrrr, makes me cold just looking at it....it's lovely to look at though..I'd just rather not be out in it

[kedigato]

Not only you, windy!

[Admin]

Well we havnt had any snow but its wet and cold i think snow looks lovely.My pond keeps frezing over too.Dont think i will get any spawn..

[kedigato]

Spring is on the way!

















A giant white crocus, don't know why it grew so big -






This is in the Wintergarten -

[windy]

Great pics KG, you've got a lot more interesting things to look at in your garden compared to mine at this of time of year

[Admin]

Good selection of winter flowering plants.its that cold here everything will be going back underground..