The Garden in August

 It is still winter, but spring is on the way in the garden. Here's what is in flower this month.

Spring stars:

 

They are more purple in real life.

 

Flowering quince, Chaenomeles:

 

 

Mahonia

 

 

White jonquils and anemones:

 

 

Hyacinths:

 

 

Hebe:

 

 

Cyclamen:

 

 

Anemones:

 

 

That's all in the back garden.

 

In the orchard a couple of the trees have open blossom, and many more have buds swollen and almost ready to pop.

 

One of the plums was first this year, the satsuma:

 

 

This almond tree has a handful of open blossoms:

 

Some broad bean flowers from the vege garden:

 

 

The flowers on my bergenia always look a bit sad close up:

 

The hellebores are looking good, but you have to get the camera quite low to get a photo of them:

It is easier to photograph the red-hot pokers, as they are just about at eye height:

Diggers speedwell in front of a leucodendron:

Acacia:

Can't find the label, will have to check exactly what it is later.

More spring bulbs, this time grape hyacinths:

 

 

Sunny-looking jonquils:

And a few daffodils:

 

Flowers I didn't photograph include the lavender, viburnum tinus, magenta pigface, borage and thryptomene.

A few more to finish off:

Rosemary,

A colourful euphorbia:

And lastly, the first flower for the year on camellia "Volunteer":

That's it for this month's roundup of the flowers in the garden.