WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN May 21

From yesterday evening ...

The first of the Double Pink Oleanders is opening on the one at the bottom of the garden ...


The Callistemon and Melaleuca brushes are still blooming ...

 

The Iochroma is looking good and even has double clusters ...





The new path was finished in a day (three of them working). Now have to hose some more to get the "po" it is laid on settled. Then I need to work on the border which has been left pending the path being laid.

 

Both late this year
Rhododendron

Azalea

 

Arum orientale powerful smell of rotting carrion.

Echium fastuosum still going


Red Sarracena


Sarracena flowers in greenhouse

Allium litvinovii

 

I never tire of my Hibiscus ...



The pots on either side are also Hibiscus L-R Ice Cream, Alba and Pagoda Red. Further to the right is the Double Red. I must get down the garden where another six large ones are when they are blooming. They got hit by our cold snap so are recovering.

 

Just a close up of a bloom ...

 

Bunny tails

 

That is absolutely stunning in the sunlight, beautiful images @Jiffy!

Nick

 

Thankyou

 

Not much really, Geranium 'Lily Lovell' is doing quite well in deep, dry shade under a Hawthorn. Corydalis 'Purple Leaf' plants are developing into nice mats and rather floriferous. But at least finally some colour in my new border: Persicaria bistorta 'Superba' looking a bit washed out on its own in the sun, but has already had quite a few bees on it in the last couple of days and hoping to have some butterflies visit it soon!

Nick

 

Lovely, very arty!

 

The wallflowers still looking good

 

They look splendid @Logan, they're great at the edge of a border, aren't they? I can understand why you grow them on an industrial scale now!

Nick

 

Thank you nick, yes they are and that's just half of them, they go round a corner and down the front of the garden.