What's looking good in May

@wiseowl thats early mine are about a week away from flowering

 

I have got to have one one of those in my fern border

 

everyone is so ahead of me this year

 

I know how you feel. The only thing that has been happy with the cold spring is my winter blooming Salvia gesneriiflora which is still looking good....................

Same here.

The Wisteria is starting to look good...................


It grows way up into the Taxodium (bit of a booger to photograph well though).................

 

@shiney you must be so proud that is stunning

 

The laptop and I are now back on speaking terms. Not conversation, you understand, but one-word answers is better than the grunts it gave me yesterday. It nearly had a crash-course flying lesson....!

Here are some of the highlights of my garden at the moment.


This is the first year that the wisteria has flowered


No idea what this plant is, but it brightens up a shady corner under an oak tree (and yes, that border has brambles - just like all the others! - it takes a while to re-establish order in a neglected garden!)


My selection of fushcias. First is a Lidl's special, the other two are cuttings from last year's standards, that I managed to overwinter





I think you've probably guessed by now, I like me violas!

The lilac bush that survived having a large conifer tree land on it last spring!

This, would you believe it, is the main weed in the grass at the top of the garden. Definitely wants to be heathland, up there! Fortunately, I love broom.

Somehow these have piggy-backed with me and my plant treasures, from High Wycombe to Tervuren, and then from Tervuren to Rhode...

Ok, not the most breathtaking of photos, but I always see the first flower of geranium sanguinium as the start of the "good times" - the roses are soon to follow!

 

The azaleas and rhodedendrons are looking good too!





I'm realy fond of this Vibernum..


Now, even fmn haters have to admit they go well with spring foliage...?
The water barrel is starting to wake up. Iris showing flower colour
and purple tinge to the new watermint stems

For some reason, my hubby doesnt see the point of lambs ears

 

All looking beautiful @Sian in Belgium ...

The plant in pic 3 is a Spirea

 

Thank you, @Lolimac ! I'm slowly building up my plant identification repertoire (that don't look like the correct spelling... Do I need more coffee?)

I think I suffer from the general gardener's malaise. Instead of always seeing the beauty, I see the weeds, and jobs that need to be done. That's why I find this thread so useful. It sends me out into the garden, camera in hand, rather than a trowel, and I see stuff in a different light.