WHATS LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2019

My Pomegranate plant doing well this year

 

The tree peony is still showing off in its blowsy way. The 52 blooms on it stand out as you come into the driveway.


The Viburnum horizontalis is now getting more flower which has been helped by our first rain for months the other day and today's rain should improve its performance


The bronze fennel is just starting to grow


We are gradually planting up this area where we took out a very large Viburnum and have just put in some Salvias and a couple of variegated Erysimums. I haven't decided whether to put some Clematis up the frame or some of the climbing annuals - may put some of the Cobaea there.


The rain has helped a lot of plants that seemed reluctant to do anything

 

Some of our Heucheras have decided to also come out because of the rain. Some others are still sulking so I won't show them!

 

Thanks. It is lovely but only flowers for ten days. This gets spread over a couple of more days as some buds open later - something that doesn't happen much until the plant is bigger and has more blooms. Each flower has about a 12" diameter, when it's not bedraggles from the rain, but has no scent.

Yes. We battled with it for some years but have finally admitted defeat. It only attacked the V. tinus so we removed it this year. It was about 14ft long, 7ft wide and 8ft high and the space where it was is shown in the post above where I said we've just started planting.

I've just quickly tried to find a shot of it and it's to the right of the horizontalis. The horizontalis has not been affected by the beetle.

 

Fremontedendrons are lovely. They certainly grow quickly if not contained like yours. We had one in the ground and it was growing a good 3ft a year - until it suddenly gave up the ghost last year.

It's not good to have in your garden if you have dogs. The flower husks have lots tiny barbs that can cause trouble for their eyes, nose or feet if they go snuffling around the ground underneath the tree. Cats seem to know that they should keep away.