WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2018

Thanks @longk I realised that as soon as I posted

 

Margaret Merril

 

Rosa 'Crown Princess Margereta'


Geum 'Scarlet Tempest'

 

Lovely roses, it's not fair mine's not out yet.

 

Just showing off my oriental poppies which opened this weekend!! And the erysium is looking lovely too.

Fin

 

Blue Moon and the beautiful orange rose that I can't quite name...chetwizle/ chewitz/ chewits/anyway, something like that!!!

 

Rose arch in full bloom; wish I could get a picture to do it justice.



For the first time ever I have a hosta that hasn't been completely ravaged by slugs Though it is completely smothering it's poor fuschia neighbour instead...


Geum labelled as Mrs Bradshaw, but looks far too yellow for that to me.



Saxifrage "Strawberry Creme"



Unknown dianthus

 

Salvia greggi "Deep Purple"...................
Salvia greggi "Deep Purple" by longk48, on Flickr

Salvia microphylla...........
Salvia microphylla by longk48, on Flickr

Salvia microphylla 'Nachtvlinder'..............
Salvia microphylla 'Nachtvlinder' by longk48, on Flickr

Echeveria pulidonis.............
Echeveria pulidonis by longk48, on Flickr

Bulbine frutescens............
Bulbine frutescens by longk48, on Flickr

Billardiera longiflora is a recent purchase................



I bought Fuchsia 'Insulinde' a few weeks ago just in time as they sold out quickly. It has romped away in the recent warm weather..............
Fuchsia 'Insulinde' by longk48, on Flickr

I always allow a few Nigella to self seed as I like them and I use a lot of the seed in my cooking..............
Nigella by longk48, on Flickr

Nigella by longk48, on Flickr

Some of the Allium christophii that I grew from seed are blooming for the first time.............
Allium christophii by longk48, on Flickr

Allium christophii by longk48, on Flickr

Echeveria purpusorum..............
Echeveria purpusorum by longk48, on Flickr

 

Rosa Malvern Hills
1000 blooms and counting. ”

 

Now is the best time for rhododendrons, but such a short flowering season.

Our big tortoise shell one which dominates the back end of the garden, is making its presence felt.






Our new clematis from Taylor's are making the effort.








This rose on the patio gives good value, three stages of colour before it completely fades.



These Phlox on the rockery have been in flower for over a month now.

When I built this rockery I arranged the rocks like strata, lines of them in more or less parallel a few inches apart. Trouble is you need an awful lot of them.




My wife doesn't like this rose, she says red roses remind her of funerals. But I like it so it's in a tub against the party fence of our drive, with other roses which are out of favour.



This is our Sambucus.,

We've had it a number of years, but it always lived on the patio. It's pruned right back each year.
It was getting a bit crowded on the patio as we'd bought for more roses to bring the total in ceramic pots to over a dozen.

But in March we moved it here to replace a little Salix tree that inexplicably died.

It's shown its appreciation by coming on in leaps and bounds, it's now over six feet tall. The flowers will follow soon.

 

mate and how come yours survived well

 

I'm so pleased with my iris & clematis Rebecca

 

Your clematis is a lovely colour Beckie and I like how your growing it ...I always think Iris's look so very fragile

 

Oriental poppy "Patty's Plum" seedling


Nicotiana mutabalis

Field poppy

A couple of geraniums


Incarvillea delayvii

Buddleja colvilei

This is the first Buddleja to flower this year. The others lost their flowers to the two cold snaps.