WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2018

Lewisia

This sits on the table where we eat outside ,which we have done lots recently.
Fresh flowers..........

 

Yes they look great.

 

Lovely flowers.

 

Our lollypop acer at its best, it's taller than it appears, nearly up to the top of the first floor windows. I have to give it plenty of water to stop the leaves going crusty.



Our last wisteria to flower, it has pink blooms, it's in a little bed up against the fence outside the kitchen window.



One bit is trained around the side of the house. It doesn't get much sun.



After not bothering for a few years I got back into koi keeping with these I bought for a tenner each in 2011. They were between five and seven inches long.

They came by courier overnight in a poly bag in a box.






Here are some now.



They're all pretty big now.
The "star" is this Tancho Sanke, (which must be nearly 24"). That's a white fish with black markings and a red head. As opposed to Showas, which are black fish with white and red markings.





If the marking were better balanced, it might be worth a few bob.


They seem to prefer the birds' suet pellets and dried mealworms rather than their expensive koi pellets.

 

I used to love quite a few years back for carp...terrific fish to catch and seeing what the weight is

 

Hi Nigel, I stupidly misread Buddleja for Buddleia and thought wow mine don't look like that

 

Zilly, this can be spelt either way - I always leave out the J - it doesn`t look right to me, so I always stick an ''i'' in
Nigels`s Buddleia is a very posh variety I think that I for one have never even heard of ....

 

Zephirine Drouhin

 

rose Pushkin both my roses have heads on them now for flowering but don't know what kind they are till Woo sees them

 

Post up pics.

 

I will do when they decide to open...as they're not quite large enough at the back but the front one does a lovely show every year

 

That's a prizewinner roders