Whats Looking good May 2024

Lobelia with leaves looking super glossy in the sunshine.

 

And a Briza basking in the rays ...

 

And very first flower on an osteospermum grown from a cutting taken last autumn. It is huge! Much bigger than those of the parent plant.

 

Flag iris Plants

 

The President in the oil tank corner

 

This afternoon,
Pyracantha
Common name: Firethorn

 

Love the Protea @pete and @CarolineL I must try them again.
First few picture are from a couple of weeks ago .



Not a great picture I rush outside while a thunderstorm was incoming but 4 out 5 Tulip acuminata have come up.

I really like these two together Pittosporum tom thumb and euphorbia black pearl

First flower on my Cornus China dawn I bought late last year , wasn't expecting any flowers this year .


The bog garden is starting to come on now the primula have been fabulous I'll get some more, still got some more bits on bobs to put in and tidy them dead bits which I've been doing for weeks

 

Particularly loving your blue Corydalis there, @Perki. Am a big fan.

 

Wow! That looks fantastic. Almost Spirea-like in flower form and density.

 

Front garden with Stipa tenuissima, Erigeron karvinskianus and Panicum Northwind.



Tree Fern moving on.



Geum Scarlet Tempest with Geranium sanguineum.



Salvia Hot Lips, just red at the moment.



Phormium tricolor flower stalk developing.



Grasses and perennials moving on.

 

Allium
Aquilegia

 

Yesterday before rain

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First of the Callistemons (or should it be Melaleuca now) C salignus is just opening up.
It is over 8ft tall and like some of the others will need pruning after flowering.

 

Echiums self seed everywhere in my garden. Here's one down near the dustbins

 

You are lucky @smallkernowgarden ! I had a few echium that I'd grown for a few years and had made enormous bases, ready to flower... Then we had that nasty snap in Dec 2022 and they went. Haven't tried since.
Lovely Melaleuca @strongylodon . I have a yellow one grown from seed from @pete but haven't dared it outside.
@Ante1 what is that gorgeous flower in your 3rd photo? Looks a bit like a punica.