Purple Tuesday

I felt like posting some pretty things today, although I'm away from my garden.
At a quick glance through my phone photo library I realised I wanted to post this photo of the smallest anemones in my garden.
They look quite similar to the wild white ones growing in the forests of Luxembourg, but they're purple. Much prettier! :)

And since I started with purple tones, I had to add these beautiful giant crocuses.
I have them in a pot and also in many places in the garden.

Here, they make a decent combination with the blue iris.

 

And here they're paid a visit by a busy bee.
Look at all that polen!

Hello, Spring!

As I was saying in my earlier entry, when I returned from a week away, I found the garden in an explosion of colour.
The leaves and the blooms and the fragrances - this is really a most joyous time for a gardener, be it such an amateur as I am :)
I took a garden tour with my camera, a quick one, as I had no time to linger.
Here are some of the treasures I found:

I love anemones - such perfect blooms!

 The Fritilarias are difficult plants to establish for a gardener without much experience, but this year's success rate seems to be a rather decent one

 This is a scene that I really like. It's Lady Emma Hamilton rose with its copper foliage and orange hyacinth, plus the narcissus with the orange centre

 That's another side of this scene, but the upload on blogger seems to dislike most pictures in portrait format.
What should I do?

 

 My white Dicentra is so fresh and pure looking

 This one I forgot the name, but it looks like a giant Galanthus

 Pretty narcissus Thalia

 Pink muscari:

 The Hellebores are still in bloom

 I love Angelique tulips, they are in my top 2 favourite tulips together with Canaval de Nice, which are not in bloom yet

 I chose this Erodium plant as companion for a potted rose that I purchased this March. I do hope they're going to look good together

 My fruit plants look extremly promising this year.
Here is my biggest blueberry bush with hundreds of blooms:

and here are the blooms on my Mara des bois strawberries