April 2025

Victor enjoying the sun in the garden

wintercress in bloom at the derelict car park

more flowers on the honesty

Centaurea montana cultivar (maybe Amethyst?)

some apple blossom in my garden

I was surprised to find one of my auricula's in bloom, it's survived the move and the winter. I don't recall seeing it last year. I used to have a lot more. I don't know if I brought all the pots they were in or not. I would have so I assume they didn't survive.

this shows what happens in my garden - lots of self-seeded forget-me-nots, dandelions and erigeron karvinskianus and pots of poppies (below)

claytonia, there's one spot on a pavement nearby that the claytonia loves and spread like mad

I know I'm back in Camden when I see Eastern rocket

those extravagant long fruits

also saw an enormous catsear

and further along the road, Japanese knotweed shooting out over the pavement, I've been observing it there for years

a few days before on the same road, I saw a large wall lettuce in bloom, typical Camden plant that loves the lime of the period buildings there

nearby another wall lettuce just getting established, no buds or flowers yet

nipplewort

a waterfall of chickweed

an enormous dandelion

greater celandine, first flower I've seen this year

hawkweed oxtongue rosette

hedge mustard plants growing up from the basal rosettes they start from, and a small rosette at the front of this one

black horehound plants

a local car park has some great plants around it

are these dandelions? similar to wild lettuce but no distinctive hairs under the leaves, will go back in a couple of weeks and check them

I'm not sure on this one, another to keep an eye on

maybe catsear

a number of Crepis vesicaria

I'd seen this before looking like a dandelion but now I'm not sure

slightly closer view of the centre

lots of groundsel

a really interesting looking buttercup

wider view of entire plant

dandelion

another car park near there

a pussy willow growing right through the tarmac

a closer view

wintercress?

groundsel?

I'm not sure about this, willowherb?

a few Crepis vesicaria

hoary mustard

creeping thistle?

back in my garden

honesty, a plant I brought with me from my last garden when I moved

bristly oxtongue

spear thistle

dandelion on my driveway - where no one can mow it down

and some fat buds

a Frankenstein plant, Danish scurvygrass growing up through buck's-horn plantain

also along the main road, thale cress

also along the main road, cornsalad, it really likes this area and has spread along here

some white deadnettle amongst the liquor bottles

I think this is a first year lesser knapweed but it's been a while since I had any of those. In my last garden I had a lot of mature plants which start with different leaves. A seed must have come along with me.

stock flower

stock plants I grew from seed last year, they're only flowering this year

I added the Erigeron speciosus Azure Fairy small plants to the stocks pots