What'a looking good in May

Hi Wiseowl,

I love the colour of your Aquilegia

Do you know the name of it, I was wandering if it is " Magpie" .

Thanks, Anthony

 

My herbaceous bed is putting on a good show this year.





These ones are especially for you @Beckie76

 

00000000000000000000000000015810Dutch Iris







Centauria Montana



Aquilegia Barlow Blue



Cerastium Tomentosum



Rhodanthemum



Tiarella and Saxifrage London Pride



First of the Roses

 

Thanks @Trunky your lupins are beautiful , I can't understand why they won't grow in my garden . Seeing yours has put a smile on my face, thanks for posting

 

The variety is orange king, the flower is quite big. I grow it from seeds, germination rate about 50%, and plant out around April without any protection, it grow faster even thorough frost and slugs. Now it is quite big.

 

Not looking quite so stunning this afternoon, but I can see why it might be called the snowball bush, looking at the drifts of petals underneath!

I assume that a fairly hard prune after flowering would not harm? It's leaning so far forward with the weight of blossoms, we can't see the rhododendron next to it, from the warmth of the house!


You can sort of sense the "void" where it is leaning forward...

 

It's my understanding that Spring flowering shrubs, in the main, are pruned after flowering. Might want to keep an eye out for any signs of nests?
Gorgeous isn't it

 

The first flowers on my Sambucus Nigra



The (unknown) clematis is in full bloom






The Sweet William is beginning to open more now.

 

Rhododendron

Azalea



Red hot poker



Clematis




Lupins

 

Strawberries

Flower

 

? Easter bonnet and Petunia.

 

Salvia microphylla "Pink Blush"..............


Not my usual thing but I really like this Wallflower............