WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2018

I had forgotten about my Camassia @longk , thanks for the reminder. Mine won't be flowering yet I doubt but will go and see. Like it very much but it doesn't seem to flower here for ages. Does yours last a while? Mine is on a slope to ensure good winter drainage but that of course equals dry in the summer if, as at the moment we have had no rain for weeks. Mine also is perhaps a bit lighter blue. Maybe there are different strains? I also have a whishy washy white which I bought (seemed a good idea at the time!) fromDumfries House Prince Charles "rescued" Dumfries house for the nation. The Chippendale furniture is to die for including 1 unique piece which is worth well over £1,000,000. A fortune has been spent on the garden and garden centre type thing...hmmm not to my taste a bit too "Peter Pan and Wendy" for my liking. but maybe age will improve things.

 

A few cacti,


Hymenosporum, scented.

And another look at the Laburnum,

 

Cor

Got any cactus cuttings @pete

 

If you want some, I'll bring a few to Shiney's, was wondering what to bring along as I dont have much of any size at the moment, in the way of plants of interest.

 

Fantastic

 

Not so many flowers this year but still

 

High hopes for a decent basket this year

 

After a fiver for this at market tomorrow, bet some badger will try to get it for less

 

@Zigs some areas round here would pay that for the box! Other areas .......

 

Camassia are one of my favourites. Their bloom period is short but they are reliable. The biggest downside is the scrappy foliage but as the bed matures and fills this is less of an issue.
There are a couple of species and sub species in popular cultivation along with a handful of varieties. In their natural habitat they grow in moist ground, and frequently in boggy ground.
There is always a home here for unloved plants

I have a few of those as well

Ever the master of understatement! A few cacti blooming rather well I would say

It has been a spectacularly good year for them around here too.

 

pete I have to agree with @Zigs comment COR beautiful show of colours

 

Hemerocallis middendorfii

Heuchera

Lachenalia orthopetala


Another Heuchera

Oxalis

 

It's Aquilegia time



Erodiums