What's Looking Good In May 2022

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  1. Upsydaisy

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    Looking fabulous @Perki . The bog garden project is interesting.
     
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      Looking good @Perki i love candelabra primula, Monty Don had some on gardener's world.
       
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        @Perki isn't darmera supposed to be a thug??? And what are the reddish leaves at the back of your raised veg box please?
         
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          My FIRST EVER Magnolia. I have never grown Magnolias before and this was planted last year.

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            They are just phormiums the reddish one is evening glow and the other jester . I've not grown Darmera before so unsure, but I am not to bothered as long as it doesn't take up the whole space , they is a public footpath just off to the right. The whole plot isn't my land its a garage site my garden is about 20ft left of that garage.
             
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              @Logan I used to have quite a lot of primula candelabra but I lost them all in the hot summer of 2017 , nice plants pulverulentra is my favourite .
               
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                A corner of bits and bobs
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                  That's a shame Perki,did you know that they like boggy conditions? That's why I wouldn't grow them.:biggrin:
                   
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                  Clematis 'Darius' :-

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                  Rose 'Crown Princess Margareta' :-

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                  Diarama :-

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                  Omphalodes capadoica :-

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                  Petunia :-

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                  Irises :-

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                    Now that's a pretty rose to greet me first thing Michael. Thank you.
                     
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                      Sundew; Drosera capensis
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                      Red Sarracenia
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                      Gladiolus tristis
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                      Ferrula communis (Giant Fennel)
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                      White Dutch Iris
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                      Allium scabriscapum a different allium from the Zagros mountains of Iran, it has rhizomes rather than bulbs and must be kept bone dry over the summer.
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                        Lonicera rhubarb and custard (and even better, we harvested our first actual rhubarb today and I made an apple and rhubarb crumble!)

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                        More foxgloves, so popular with the bumble bees

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                        Rosa Francis E Lester

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                          First of the Callistemons, C salignus, #beating the pinks and reds.
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                            Good evening my first Foxglove in flower:smile:

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                              @NigelJ your pictures are always amazing....lots of exhibits I've never seen before,
                              thank you,
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