Whats Looking good May 2024

Cantua buxifolius

 

Oh @NigelJ is your cantua outside? Mine survived last year's nasty frost but hasn't even shown itself this year - it usually shoots from the base.

 

Backlit lavender, this has been flowering for a few weeks now.

 

Orange blossom.


Osteospermums
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@CarolineL No it's in a pot and spends winter in a cold greenhouse and is moved outside every spring.
Originally I bought it with a mass of flowers on it and planted it in the garden and every year it leafed up, but no flowers. In 2020 I stuck it in a pot as it had not produced a leaf until June and stuck it in the greenhouse over winter and had flowers the next summer; so it has remained in a pot on this regime ever since. Some say it's hardy down to -7°C, others say it's hardy down to 1°C. Definitely lower than 1°C as it gets down to less than that in my greenhouse. Most years it stays in leaf in the greenhouse.

 

Thanks @NigelJ . When I used to keep mine in a pot in a polytunnel it did quite well too. I've got a rooted cutting of it, so may have to return to keeping it in the greenhouse. I was given some cuttings of a pale pink version from Oxford botanic garden but sadly I couldn't get them to take. I'll ask for more in autumn I think!

 

This was yesterday, it didn’t flower in a pot last year so I’m chuffed with this.

 

Jenny namaste

 

Evening bliss - if only I could hold on to this moment for a while.

 

Absolutely beautiful @pitter-patter fantastic colour combinations and your rose looks beautiful.

 

Hope the dam isn't going to break.

 

Another Meconopsis opened today

 

First allium out.


First clematis out, Mrs Cholmondley.


First rose out, Parkdirektor Riggers.


Last glance at OH's garden in Norfolk for May as tomorrow we go back to my garden in France.

 

One for the photo comp thread @Punkdoc ?

 

It must be pretty tricky managing 2 gardens at distance @Busy-Lizzie ?
I find it a challenge staying on top of one.
Guess you must have gardeners to keep on top of things whilst you are at the other site.