What's looking good in May 2012

Lovely, Simbad. It reminds me of Rosa primula, which has a similar habit, ferny leaves and early single yellow flowers. It's sometimes called the 'incense rose', because the leaves smell lovely after shower of rain. (Surely you've got room for another rose!) Then there is 'Lady Penzance', a single coppery pink. It has leaves which have been described as smelling of 'stewed apples'.

 

You're leading me astray ClaraLou , you know I'm going to have to go and google 'Lady Penzance' now
Rosa primula sounds lovely too, must say I do love my roses to have a scent

 

Thank you Shiney. Lovely shots and your kerria is making asuperb statement today.I'm sitting indoors watching ceaseless rain and lots of little birds on the seed feeder. Had pin out and foot dressings removed yesterday so foot is cross today So, gotta take it easy for a bit. Want to get out and cut back forgetmenots which are swamping emergent growth of a hardy fuchsia. Campanula "Kent Belle" is swamping Clematis "Picardy" and weeds are growing faster than the more preferred border edge plants. Gosh, I am finding this grey weather a bit of a trial today.

 

We have Choisya here where I live. l adore the perfume on a sunny day and watching the bees scrambling all over it.

 

re : foot. Long term about a year before body and foot are comfortably realigned but in a couple of months I shall be able to walk for about 20 minutes before it gets cross. Around the garden, I'm just fuffing about and pottering(weather permitting) and you don't notice things like that when you are "at one" with Mother Nature do you? Birds singing, bees, various flowers and leaf forms and their diversity of colours and shapes. Just want to be outdoors.....

 

Lovely pics Shiney.....
Take it carefully Jenny,you're foot must feel sore.....wishing you well as soon as
My Choiysa is doing her thing at the moment...the scent always takes me back to junior school ...after spending the winter in the confines of the playground come May we were allowed onto the playing fields where there were huge Choiysa's in bloom...My old Montana never lets me down and i love to see the fronds on the ferns unfold....the Rhody is showing herself too...

 

many thanks Loli and for your lovely shots of what's going on chez vous,

Jenny namaste:ktykss:

 

Lovely pics, Lolimac.

 

Agree with Claralou gorgeous pictures Lolimac(love the choisya) and Shiney your tree peonies are wonderful
Ooo Jenny your foot sounds very painful,hope you're feeling better soon.

 

Honestly Simbad, it's healed fantastically quickly and I am very lucky to live in the UK, not somewhere like in remotest Nepal. OH and I were up near the Chinese border and watched 2 girls struggle down from a rice field supporting a young boy. His leg and foot were in extreme stages of gangrene and he was very, very poorly. Just because we were white European people they hoped we had medicine that would help or cure him. That scene has stayed with me for many years and whenever my body throws the odd little hissy fit, I try to remember this and remind myself how fortunate I am.

 

A wild flower and a bit of a thug maybe but I like to find a spot for Wild Garlic;




Apple Blossom;


Cerinthe just starting to flower from self seeded plants;