The Kitchen Yard
Back 1 Tulipa violacea
2 This fantastic tulip flowered 8 years after I planted the seeds – from RHS seed exchange, and then the label was lost! Can it be T.sprengeri ?
3 Tulipa tarda - self sowing
4 Tulipa greigii 'Rodluvan'
5 Webmaster with a bunch of tulips 2002
6 Fritillaria imperialis
7 Choenomeles speciosa ‘Brilliant’ – flowering quince
8 Choenomeles speciosa ‘Brilliant’ – close
9 Clematis 'Miss Bateman'
10 Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
11 Hosta fortunei 'Aurea'
12 Syringa meyerii 'Palibin' and Allium aflatunense. In the background a bamboo from Aksel Olsen in Kolding. A lump from the very first bamboo coming from A.O. in the twenties. Always keeps its leaves green during the winter.
13 Hosta 'Royal Standard' and behind a cubeformed Taxus x media 'Thayerae' growing too broad to be left alone
14 Phlox paniculata 'Nora Leigh' bought at Spinners - in the same border as the Hostas
15 Rosa 'Nevada'
16 Rosa x bourboniana  'Louise Odier' with Rosa 'Schneewittchen' (28 years old at the moment, now sadly dead) and Spiraea 'Little Princess' in the foreground. Elaeagnus commutata and Philadelphus coronarius in the background.
17 At the very corner below the climbing rose thrives Euonymus fortunei 'Blondy, Coreopsis verticillata, Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea' (Creeping Jenny)  and a lateflowering lilium - for the colour- contrast: "A smash in the eye!" The 'Blondy' gives colour during the whole winter.
18 Cyclamen hederifolium and autumn crocus
19 Cyclamen hederifolium seed-capsules
20 Cyclamen seed-capsule opens up for the ants to carry away the sticky seeds.
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This was what the kitchen yard was meant for: My daughter-in-law preparing a crayfish-party in August - with funny hats and the lot!
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