WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2017

Yeah! Glad that I've found you. Makes this a happy day! Got 6 replacement, and I reckon none of them black. I suddenly had quite a few purple ones like yours! They told me I hadn't bought any Black swans, so I copied and pasted my purchase history .. and 6 replacement. I don't need to label them, come as they are..

Hope to see your flowers here! I wonder where my Trionum's gone! 2 butterfly weeds germinated (the orange ones) but promptly died on me. One clematis survives, but don't know where I put it.. That's summed me up!

 

I don't do "flowers"or "shrubs" I leave that to Carol, if you can't eat it, don't grow it! Quite happy with progress so far, beans, parsnips, cabbage, tomatoes ............... all doing well

 

Yours are safe, I only live 15 miles from a nursery with 2500 different varieties of Hosta

 

Haha! You're too kind, as usual!

 

Echeveria pulidonis spent the winter outdoors on some staging to protect it from the winter wet. As a result it is not the prettiest Echeveria that I have this year but it has just come into bloom and it is going to bloom better than ever before...........
Echeveria pulidonis by longk48, on Flickr

Echeveria pulidonis by longk48, on Flickr

I bought Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii a few months ago and I would thoroughly recommend it. The biggest problem with Camassia is the messy foliage but this one has very neat, well behaved and upright foliage.............
Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii by longk48, on Flickr

I think that a couple of my Pleione are pregnant!
Pleione seedpods by longk48, on Flickr

This Digitalis has some interesting appendages on the blooms............
Digitalis noid by longk48, on Flickr

Digitalis noid by longk48, on Flickr

Salvia microphylla "Pink Blush"...........
Salvia microphylla "Pink Blush" by longk48, on Flickr

Gymnocalycium stenopleurum.............
Gymnocalycium stenopleurum by longk48, on Flickr

I bought the following cactus at the village plant sale a couple of years ago and this is the first time that it has bloomed. If anyone has any idea as to an id I would be grateful...........
Unknown Cactus by longk48, on Flickr

Unknown Cactus by longk48, on Flickr

 

Yes it's called Owcho's twin @longk. @Zigs has it's other half.

 

No, it seems Owcho does. A scary thought if it was Ziggy.

 

Keep you eyes open for a second Ziggy lurking at Shiney's.

 

Here are a few from my Mediterranean style garden today.