WHATS LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2019

Our white one is quite sedate and is only just flowering - not very prolific.


We lost thousands of Aquilegia five years ago to Aquilegia Downy Mildew which wiped out our whole collection. We now seem to have some of them coming back from, presumably, seed still left in the ground. There's the occasional one around the garden but some have come up amongst the Allium siculum. Maybe the Alliums have helped .

Not a very clear picture as it's too busy with plants


And the alliums are doing well amongst the late blooming roses. We never get any aphids here so I wonder whether it's the Alliums that keep them away


Our front garden has more colour at this time of year (back garden is Spring and Autumn)

 

Still the front garden.

Only just opening - variegated Weigelia (some in back garden are fully open)










Clematis flowering Acer

 

Love In A Mist (Nigella) is just about ready to open


Viburnum is just going over


Whilst the Cistus is just beginning

 

No a lot of colour in the back garden so we've hung up our hanging baskets ready for the weekend










This Weigelia is in full bloom - it's in a much more protected place



The nodding grasses are only just starting

 

Rowan






Some beans and courgettes planted out


Is a group of pears called a Conference?


The pansies have flowered just right for brightening up our sales tables at the weekend

 

@Vince

Cardoon?

@Doghouse Riley

Perki has put it better than I would have

The flowers that form on the Euonymous (yours looks like 'Silver King') are small white/yellow insignificant cluster of heads that are about 1 - 2mm diameter, but the bees love them. They should be forming about now and continue for a couple of months.