What's Looking Good In May 2013

Very nice Annie, love the photo of your freshly cut lawn and mature planting

 

What lovely photos of everyones gardens. Thank you for inviting me in to see them ,
Jenny

 

A few things are giving Springlike colour:
New epimedium leaves and the Buddelia that I culled in February is sprouting new leaves.


Front north facing border with wallflowers starting to colour up. The window box with all those huge blousy fuchsias have survived their transplant fron the mini GH
Lawn sad with Winter damage - it will get better later on though.

And just to show the namby pambies that its good to glow - the first Welsh poppy!!
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And some leaves , equally interesting in their own way,
Epimedium new growth

Chives, on the point of blooming


Sambucus nigra "Black Lace "


And that lime green glow of Geranium Ann Folkard. Later, she will ramble all though that piece of border with her bright magenta flowers. She is my favourite cranesbill.

 

Here are just a few things that are flowering nicely at the moment in our garden

Enkianthus


Actaea


Iris


Euphorbia


Flowering cherry


Lamium

 

All very luvvly Hsuh,
thank you,
Jenny

 

Lovely pictures Hsuh, love the Actaea and the Enkianthus is stunning, I have a space for a new shrub after loosing a huge Ceanothus last winter so off to google what conditions it likes

 

Thank you Jenny and Simbad.

Our enkianthus is a bit odd. We had ours at least 18 years ago. It was growing in a large pot for about 2 years. Then we went abroad for 2.5 years, but before we went we took it out of the pot and planted it in the ground in the hope that it would look after itself better. When we returned, to our surprise it hadn't grown at all and looked very unhappy and sad . So we dug it out and put it back in the large pot it was in before (which also enabled us to bring it with us when we moved house shortly afterwards). Guess what? It just took off, and has been flowering every year since .

Because it is grown in a pot, it doesn't put up lots of growth, we also restrict it by cutting it back a little when needed, so it has stayed, for the past 15 years, at 1.5 meter high. We do water it regularly, and feed it every now and then, sometimes just multi-purpose feed, sometimes ericacious feed. On the whole it is a very easy going plant and, in addition to the spring flowers, it has nice colour in the autumn. Highly recommended.

 

Lovely pictures everyone, so pleasing to see. It's a shame my garden is still pretty much in it's winter form, probably due to the heavy snow we had at Easter.

 

Ornithogalum nutans...................

 

Lovely pics of everyone's gardens

Some of my Rhodos have started blooming ...

 

More Rhodos (are we spotting a theme yet?)







Camellia japonica Extravaganza



Broom - inconspicuous most of the year but boy when it flowers the scent follows me up the drive