The warm weather is speeding the garden into mid summer! After church this morning I've spent the afternoon doing a 'now or never' move with some Cyclamen that needed a new home.
Cyclamen really don't like being moved unless dormant, but these ones have started a new flowering season without any pause. This isn't uncommon with white forms of Cyclamen hederifolium, which are in any case usually the earliest to flower in autumn.
Three corms were carefully dug from an overgrown area and found a new home providing a bright flash in the dark area under our Liquidambar styraciflua 'Gumball'. The seed pods have been left intact for the ants to spread: because the parents have been grown in isolation the seedlings should flower white, but any that don't will simply be re-homed to a patch of the more usual pink form elsewhere in the garden.
While crawling around under this tree I decided to do a check on a basket pot of a pretty miniature Galanthus nivalis 'Elfin'.
With the rarer snowdrops we plant the first bulb in a basket pot to protect it from 'mishap'. This policy had worked well: one bulb planted six years ago was now 24! We replanted three in the pot with fresh compost: the rest we planted around the pot to create a natural-looking drift. That way we can look forward to white in the spring to match the white shining out in the leafy shade of summer.
All in all, a productive Sunday afternoon!
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