April is bonus time for garden lovers.
Showers bring the last of the cold weather flowers to life and they bloom with renewed vigour, shimmering against rain-washed skies and new foliage. Heaven knows the same plants were looking dead just two weeks ago.
When the beds are filled with flowers in February, I'm already sated, but greedy. Where I'd longed for abundance, I expect perfection. I'm impatient if all the beds aren't in sync, and feel sad if something hasn't come up to the previous year's standards. And then the heat picks up and I've learnt my lesson.
Then April weather comes along, and, gosh, are those the dahlias we were going to yank out of the ground?
These salvias were planted - as fillers - in the bed where our showy Inca marigolds held sway till mid-February. They look all stylish now!
Was someone calling us 'junglee'??
A little wilderness where we saw the resident 'dhamna' snake in its usual corner for the first time this year.
Each year, the sounds, scents and sensations of April bring new hope and
a sense of rejuvenation. It's an end to my moaning about how much I
will miss the cold weather. These 'in-between' seasons have that
quality; they change the way you look at the world.
Showers bring the last of the cold weather flowers to life and they bloom with renewed vigour, shimmering against rain-washed skies and new foliage. Heaven knows the same plants were looking dead just two weeks ago.
When the beds are filled with flowers in February, I'm already sated, but greedy. Where I'd longed for abundance, I expect perfection. I'm impatient if all the beds aren't in sync, and feel sad if something hasn't come up to the previous year's standards. And then the heat picks up and I've learnt my lesson.
Then April weather comes along, and, gosh, are those the dahlias we were going to yank out of the ground?
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| These gerberas are picking up so well! They are certainly not worrying about how summer or the monsoon will treat them! |
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| This azalea bush sulked through the cold weather, and has suddenly decided to have its own Matsuri! |
Easter lilies are the new stars in the garden, popping up like magic everywhere.
And there are new delights, the flowers of the season :passion flowers, orchids, cosmos, cannas. 
