These narcissi had finished flowering in pots. I planted them out in beds rather than trying to keep them for repotting later this year. It’s easier to get new bulbs. Anyway, I’m not so keen on narcissi in pots, on their own or with something else.

• Narcissus ‘Thalia’
• Narcissus ‘Kinglet’
• Narcissus ‘Lieke’

This is the third year they’ve flowered after being overwintered in their pots by the compost heap. They’re fed with tomato fertiliser every week. The white one, in particular, is superb. The lily beetle I saw earlier seems to have gone away.

This is the second year of flowering having been left in their pots over winter. Very tall, but easily supported by wigwam of bamboos. Lily beetle irritating but not serious. Adults and larvae are quite easy to see on the very open foliage of thin leaves of regale. I go round once or twice a day squashing the adults, which I see very rarely and are extremely tough. I also squash the larvae, trying to forget what the red-brown goo they cover themselves in is.

See also earlier post.

.c 10 larvae found on Lilium regale in pot 89 at the front, and one adult. Pot 90 at the back was completely clear.

One larva found in pot 93 of lilies from Homebase at the back. Third year of flowering. Nothing on similar pot 94 at the front.

I think this is the first time I’ve seen lily beetle in this garden.

These pots of (mainly) bulbs come again and again

They’re not really in the way, and I’ve got enough pots for other things, so I suppose I might as well continue in this way.

Lifted some bulbs from pots and put them in plastic troughs for the foliage to die off completely

These were very good last year, but this year the flowers are weak and the leaves seem dead at the tips. Did I let them dry out too much?

I haven’t seen this before, although I did wonder whether the tulips would find their way through the rather dense lychnis alpina plants when I planted them last autumn. The lychnis are now in another pot.

These are flourishing in the deep shade under the acer and other shrubs in the SE of the back garden. I’d never really noticed them before. They came with the original garden and seem very happy.