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What's Happening in the Spring Garden on the Terrace? So Much!

Spring on the Terrace! We leave for Europe two weeks from now, and as much as I'm looking forward to the trip, I'm already regretting the blooms we'll miss, a bit envious of those visitors who will care for the garden while we're away. . . (This seems to be an integral part of my preparation for spring travel -- I was writing something similar when getting ready to leave another garden behind for Europe, seven years ago.)

The garden's featured in my journal recently, as in this entry from week before last, when I mixed some white gouache with some watercolours and sketched the winter aconites and snowdrops (top photograph) that are still blooming beneath the large ornamental maple tree (all in a very large concrete container on the terrace).  (Sketching this on the Canson mi-teint paper and then gluing it into the journal was much less messier than my earlier efforts -- this way, the dry-media journal paper doesn't get wet. I used a white Gelly Roll pen for the lettering).  . . . Here's a journal page from last spring in the garden, if you're interested.

Since I photographed and sketched the snowdrops and their cheery yellow companions, they've been joined by these pretty Brunnera macrophylla lacy leaves and dainty flowers. I'm really pleased that we underplanted the trees and shrubs in the larger containers with small bulbs and tubers and a few herbaceous perennials last fall.  It's already added so much interest to the terrace through March, and I'm eager to see how the underplantings work during the summer. The bulbs will die back, of course, but ground cover like the Brunnera should add welcome texture. . .

Here's another large pot, this one host to a very large hosta that's just barely beginning to stretch above the soil. As the leaves emerge and unfurl, their rich blue-green will be punctuated by the blue of these Muscari -- I bought a couple of pots of muscari in bloom last spring and tucked them into the soil carefully when the hosta was already spreading out -- they died back quietly, and seem to have naturalized here quite happily -- I'm hoping for one or two blooms before we leave. . . (or, at least, a few photos from the housesitters ;-)

We also tucked bulbs into a few otherwise empty pots, so we're watching for daffodil and tulip blooms. . . and there's a Dicentra spectabilis 'Gold Heart' (Bleeding Heart) under another maple. . .

But we're not just looking down, on the terrace.

 Over the last week or so, I've been watching the starry magnolia flowers begin to shoulder their way out of their furry covering. . . .

 Texture is everything with these. . .

And tender colour . . .

Oh, speaking of tender colour. . .

 I am so enamoured of the flowers on the Corylopsis spicata (common name, some form of WinterHazel -- e.g. Japanese winter hazel or golden winter hazel). Mind you, I'm enamoured of everything about this shrub, although its spread is really too demanding for as restricted a garden space as ours. . . Just wait until I show you its pleated leaves later this season. . .

 As for leaves, the hydrangea is still with us, despite its challenges with scale insects and my dislike of its strident (to me, at least) pink blooms. I have to admit that it makes a strong focus for the late-summer garden. . .

 The value of having roses growing in containers on an exposed terrace five storeys up is less clear, especially since aphids have no trouble finding us up here. . . But this rugosa has been at least holding its own so far, and it does yield a few fragrant roses throughout the summer. It can stay, for now. Not as sure about the neighbouring New Dawn rose, but we'll see. . .  (In case you're wondering where the hydrangea and roses came from, here's a post about what "came with" the garden when we moved in.)

 And finally, the forsythia! I'd never bothered introducing one to earlier gardens I've cared for, but this shrub "came with," and it's guaranteed to hold its place, despite getting toppled by wind at least once a year since we've been here. . .

Just a week ago, tightly furled, imperatively yellow petals began jutting out of their green cases along the otherwise bare branches. . . .

and this morning, in the sunshine. . . .

I'd actually finished this post, I thought, but glanced up from the table to see the morning sun meet its ambitious earthly imitation. . . both with cerulean sky as stage. . . . And I had to grab my iPhone, scoot outside, and snap this for you.

Any minute now, a Ten will be buzzing our front door, and shortly afterward, her Six-year-old cousin will be arriving, both to hang out with Nana and Granddad during Spring Break. We're planning a jaunt to the botanical garden where they will be more blooms to savour. While I'm gone, you're very welcome to leave me a comment: about gardens, or pre-travel regrets vs. anticipation, or about Spring, or changing seasons. Or, you know, anything remotely connected.

Happy Wednesday!

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