WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN May 21

Could be one of the multitude of Iris sibirica.

 

Anyone for Lilacs? We have seven or eight that are well over 50 years old but still doing well.

 

A few of our Hebes (think we may have over a dozen different ones). A couple died this winter.

 

Most of our Irises haven't opened yet but some are coming out since the rain.











Also just starting to flower

 

I guess that with just another week of sunshine (what's that? ) the garden will become colourful. Just in time for our cancelled open garden.



The maidenhair fern (almost as old as me!) is just perking up


I've just spotted some goosegrass in the background




We hacked this back in the Spring (wrong time to do it but had reached 8ft tall) and didn't think it would flower this year


The big Rowan tree has just started flowering


and our late flowering Magnolia that will flower until July




The pale pink Clematis montana has just opened and the dark pink one that grows through it tends to flower a week or two later

 

I think it's liliflora nigra.

That's the one that sits under our willow tree. I don't know whether the shelter from the tree changes the flowering time.