What's Looking Good In May 2020

One of my first plants I always grew, Lupins, not grown them for years but still a great plant.

 

The purple one is from seed, think this is it’s 3rd year. I love them, hate the aphids though!

 

Oleander thanks to cutting from @noisette47

Osteospermum enjoying the sunshine

 

Callistemon salignus is the first Bottlebrush in flower and a week or two earlier than usual followed closely by C. Perth Pink just emerging.



First Alstroemeria.


Wisteria Amethyst Falls.


Nemesia Banana Swirl, it has been left in the ground for two years and taken -6c a few times with no damage. Next to it is a Heliotrope, overwintered in the greenhouse and just planted.

Clematis Mrs N Thompson, almost lost it but two stems grew and I have had just two flowers!!!


Young Trachy fortunei flowering for the time


Salvia jamensis Melen.

 

I've always struggled with Nerium oleander, seem to get some disease that blackens the stems @CarolineL
Clive, I've been out there trying to pollinate my Waggie, so hope the neighbours dont think I'm totally crackers, a 4 in paint brush stuck on the end of end of a 15ft pole.
I go over the allotment and collect the pollen and then put it up into the Waggy, if fortunei crosses with waggie I'm not sure, but I'm trying, very trying some say.

Rebutias


Bottle brush


Seed pods forming on Melianthus major.

 

My humble Fernery.

 

My best tulip this year Antoinette - multi head flower and fades from yellow to pink

tulip Marylin

Camassia Heavenly blue

Greenhouse nearly full , had a surprise today the Brugmansia Maya started to flower.

 

@Perki that greenhouse looks a bit packed! Just like @CanadianLori! I'm so glad, I thought it was just me ...

 

There's a really nasty fungal disease that attacks them, @pete. I found some 20 year old sachets of Benlate at the back of the shed. Mixed it up with mancozeb and watered the ollie hedge with 50l. That sorted it!

 

Yeah, we cant have any of those useful chemicals anymore, that worked.
We just keep drenching every thing with ineffective chemicals.

Apparently that is better for the environment.

 

Gladiolus angustus