In an English Garden - in March (II)

Another favourite group of plants for the spring, the lungworts, Pulmonaria. These do best in a moist soil in semi shade. The one above is the "normal" type..it's was already growing in the garden when I got here. They vary enormously, sometimes one with a particularly strong colour will turn up, sometimes one with particularly good leaves. Left,  "Blau Meer", a wonderful deep gentian blue with unspotted leaves.

Right and below, two very similar forms (plus "Sissinghurst White" just peeking into the bottom left hand corner of the one on the right). I really like the pale blue forms, the one at the bottom is "Opal" I think. There are also pink, red and mid blue forms, often appearing from pink buds. Many forms as you can see here have pretty white spotted foliage.