Just a few pics of flowers from the last two weeks. Some will look familiar to those of you who follow me on instagram. A sentence I never thought I would write…..
Early March Flowers
Plants, Botanical Art, Humour and Random Stuff by Darren Sleep
The Arty Plantsman 
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*swoons* the third one 😍
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😱you are on instagram? And why I didn’t know?!
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😊❤️ @artyplantsman
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So refreshing to see a hint of color 🙂
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So, so beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
May I ask the name of the purple flower in the fourth photo? Is it a hepatica? I’ve never seen anything like it… I’m not sure about the one underneath either?
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Hi there! Yes it is a double form of Hepatica japonica. The next picture is another subtly different cultivar. I do have cultivar names for both on the labels and will add them tomorrow as I can’t recall just now.
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Thank yous so much. They really are lovely, aren’t they?
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They are indeed. Also expensively addictive. Edrom Nurseries in Northumberland have a very good range of them and is where I got these two from – have a look at their website. They have a stand at our show on saturday and my wallet is cringing already!
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Oh no… Dare I look at their website…?
Of course I do. Who needs to eat when you can look at beautiful plants??
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I just added the cultivar names😄
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Lovely. What’s the one in the fourth pic down ?
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I’ve just added captions. It is a double flowered form of Hepatica japonica. I do have a proper cultivar name somewhere. It came from Edrom nurseries in Northumberland.
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I just added the cultivar names to the Hepatica.
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WOW!!!!!
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Thank you 🙂
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So pretty!
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Thank you Marie 🙂
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These are lovely!
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You know how much I love these posts. Truly beautiful! I 💗 that you are on Instagram, it’s like extra goodness 🌞💟
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Thank you Lisa. I enjoy keeping up with you on Instagram too 🙂
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Wow.. beautiful 😮
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Thank you 🙂
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Fabulous! (What’s the second and third one down?)
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Thank you Val 🙂
I just added captions. It is Fritillaria poluniniii from Iran. This is the first flower 8 years after sowing the seed.
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Wow! That took a long time to come up! It hadn’t occurred to me it was a Fritillaria… we’ve got some – not this kind – in our garden.
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It always amuses me that specialist Frit growers tend to ignore the native snakeshead fritillary when to my eyes it is the loveliest of all. We grow it too but our garden is really too dry for it.
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Ours usually come up in a patch of bluebells. Only nature waters them.
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Best kind😄
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Oh wow! Love the Fritillaria poluninii + Hepatica japonica and the anemone. Gorgeous flowers and very nice pics too.
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Thank you Dominique. The anemone is nice but really tiny. Flower not much bigger than my thumbnail.😍
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Size doesn’t matter… Ahem. 😉
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😉❤
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All very pretty. All I have is one daffodil head, a late Hellebore and a load of building rubble.
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Been there! It gets better, honest.
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Swoons indeed! Beautiful photography Darren. I particularly loved Hepatica japonica – double blue 1. It seems your world is waking up just as mine is turning red and gold. (And the gumtrees just drop all year round but there is a lot of bark being shed in swathes in Autumn!).
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Thank you so much. I love that Hepatica too. Good job too as it is the most expensive one I have ever bought! You should see todays weather before thinking spring has arrived. Winter is back with a vengeance!
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so beautiful, Darren! Thank you for bringing spring to my frosty day! 🙂 I especially love the joyful colors of the Irises and the delicate Hepatica japonica! ❤
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Thank you Sarah. You should see how much snow it is putting down outside my window right now!
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Haha! Typical! 😂
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I think I’m going to have yo up my game with spring bulbs next year. These are beautiful. Iris rosenbachiana especially.
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Thank you. Bulbs are really my speciality these days. I can guarantee to have one in flower every day of the year. The Iris is lovely but a real challenge unless grown under glass and watered very carefully. It rots away with the slightest excuse! Iris warleyensis has similar colouring and I find it much easier.😄
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There is something really wonderful to look at such in shitty weather.
Hi, BTW…
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