What's looking good in May 2012

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  1. simbad

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    Oh how awful Jenny, know we moan about waiting times for operations etc, but at least we have a NHS, my mother in laws just had a replacement hip at 83 and they've been brilliant with her, insisted she stayed in a care home for three weeks after, even though she didn't want to :biggrin:, sent a physio out to help her to get mobile again once a week for 6 weeks and she's up and about walking again with just one stick in quite a short time for someone her age, so yes we are very lucky.
     
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      Love the wild garlic Bilbo, we've just had some new house built across from us and they've been clearing a small wooded area which was full of it, the smells been lovely:biggrin:
       
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      Shiney, hold them back for a few weeks so I can see them for real!:blue thumb:

      Trunky like you, where we are now is next to heathland and mainly sand, I dread to think what it will be like in the Summer. I have a lot of soil improving to do.
       
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      Some things are speeding ahead and some seem to be behind - but I'm sure there'll be plent of colour when you get here. Some people have been popping in and buying a few of the named aquilegias. As they're in pots and have been carefully looked after they have started flowering - which always sells well.

      Someone who always buys a lot of aquilegias (usually 20 - 40 of them) each year is coming in on Monday to have a look. He may want all the Biedemeyer, and McKana as they are flowering. The Lime Sorbet aren't quite in flower yet but are one of my favourites. I said to Mrs Shiney that we should keep some for Open Day but she says that unless people place orders for them she wants to sell them!
       
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        I inherited these tulips so a bit of a surprise. First time they've bloomed as they'd been buried under overgrown shrubs.

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          i've 'inherited' some wild Garlic which came with some clumps of Snowdrops give to us so I separated them and planted them here and there. Not sure whether I'll keep them.

          Acers, bringing some Spring Colour.
          At last I had been able to plant this Palmatum, It's been in a pot for three years.
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          Acer A Dissectum.
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          Acer P Orange Dream, newly acquired and potted.
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          • Trunky

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            Fens, the tulips are a bonus, looks like 'Queen of the Night' if I'm not mistaken. :dbgrtmb:
             
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              Cheers Trunky, I'm not a tulip person but these are pretty nice as you say. Thanks for the ID.
               
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              Despite yet another dull, cold and damp day here, I still managed to find some colour in the garden today to brighten my spirits.

              A patch of self seeded Honesty looking good in the front garden:

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              Nearby, a mixture of two types of Euonymous; 'Emerald Gaiety' and 'Emerald n Gold' planted in a narrow bed against a low wall are doing fine:

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              Pieris 'Forest Flame' in a large pot brightens up a shady corner, happily it survived being blown over in last weekend's gales.

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              A happy accident. I often use old 10 litre plastic pots filled with soil from the vegetable plots for growing herbs, or for cucumbers in the greenhouse. At the end of last summer I dumped some of the pots outside, but never quite got around to emptying out the soil. When I finally got round to it a few weeks ago, I noticed Forget-me-nots and Catmint had appeared in this one, so I topped up the soil and left them to it.

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              • Jenny namaste

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                Lovely piccies. Thank you Trunky
                 
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                  Despite the dull and damp conditions, a closer look produced some hidden beauty.

                  The rain had settled in droplets on the leaves of the Heuchera 'Chocolate Ruffles' and Alchemilla mollis:

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                  Centaurea and a couple of random insects braving the weather:

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                  The Garlic Mustard in the 'wild' area is coming in to flower:

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                  The first, delicate leaves on my Acer Drumondii tree are unfurling:

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                    Just lovely Trunky:dbgrtmb:...I know to some Alchemilla Mollis is just a'plain' plant but it is one of my all time favorites and even better with rain drops on it :wub2:
                     
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                    This is possibly my favourite Aquilegia in my garden; it's just starting to flower..:dbgrtmb:

                    Just love how true the blue is when fully out; looks slightly purple at the moment..

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                      001.JPG Tree Peony 'Yin Hong Qiao' nearly open :hapydancsmil:
                       
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                        No flowers just yet but I love the dark purple leaves of Lysimachia firecracker;

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