What's looking good in May 2011 ....

Well, the rain has arrived yet again so I have spent a wee bit of time on the computer uploading some photos from earlier ....

My super double Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is single in it's first blooms this year ...



And my dreaded Passiflora caerulea (which I cannot get rid of come hell or high water) has opened it's first blooms ... albeit they are pretty ..

 

Hi Victoria, you have taken a lot of pics there of a plant you dont like:WINK1:

Nice Hibiscus, the seed you sent me dont seem to want to germinate.

Another couple of cacti from me





And new growth on Brachychiton acerifolium

 

Heya there Pete .. well, you know when something blooms you just have to photograph it ...

Did I send you Hibiscus seeds? ... or was it Sis? :WINK1: Ah, or you talking about the giant one Newbiscus? Mine has only just sent up shoots this past week ...

I just love your Cactus ... sorry, didn't say about the others on last month's thread but they are all so stunning ... (maybe you can put them up on UKEG?) ...

And I am so jealous of your Brachychiton ... mine looks like a stick with some new growth ...

The Chilopsis is branching out nicely so may have several blooms this year and the Canna is up and running with a glorious dark red streak on one leaf .. will photograph soon ...

 

Lucky you Victoria I want some rain too:-), everythings wilting here more like July than April, sorry May,know I shouldn't moan do love the warm weather and we needed it after our winter.
I had a couple of passion flowers, love them, but looks like they've both bit the dust with the cold, lovely pictures:-)
Nice cacti Pete, looks like they're enjoying the sun :-)

 

Simbad .. I will go 4-6 months now without a drop of rain after May/June so I don't complain ... the ground desperately needs the heavy rains we have now to make it through summer. Strangely I still have to water every few days we don't have rain at the moment ...

 

Crikey 4-6 months !!!!! must be a full time job watering, do love Portugal been there on holiday a couple of times :-)

 

Wonderful pictures again Shiney, I found a pinkbell!!!! in the wood today forgot to get a piccy, don't know where that came from:-)

Clematis Montana 'Marjorie'

 

Clematis 'Miss Bateman'

 

Angelica, normally 6 or 7ft but only around 4ft this year, lack of rain I'd say.

 

Whitebells :-)

 

Corydalis 'Taliensis' grown from seed last year, my one and only plant, hope it seeds around.

 

Woodruff

 

Great time of the year right now, and the weather is behaving.

Trachycarpus Wagnerianus in flower.