Whats Looking good May 2024

Those rhododendrons aren't overgrown @AuntyRach - they're wonderful!

 

Hosta Sieboldiana.



Opportunistic Erigeron!

 

Lysimachia 'Alexander' young variegated leaves :-



I can't remember the next one but it's got dark blotchy leaves and can be a nuisance, spreading everywhere :-




London Pride/Saxifraga urbium (always difficult to get a good picture of)





Aquilegia :-







Aeonium 'Black King Kong' :-

 

Buddleja glomerata

Allium unknown

Aquilegia hybrid

Ajuga reptans descended from "Braunherz

Polygonatum vietnamicum

 

Great to be getting some dry weather and being able to get out in the garden a bit more.

Crinodendron only planted a few months blooming already:



Last years container flowers starting to bloom again:





View from back door to the east where garlic crop is looking good in foreground and swallow is back flying about again (as a small speck in the sky to the top right of photo.




Also posted a video showing some more plants in bloom now here.
Happy gardening!

 

I am very much enjoying the aquilegias. Keep them coming please!

 

Another photogenic flower, taking up the baton as the tulips finish.

 

The rhodos will like your conditions too @AuntyRach - they're like weeds up here
Nice seeing all the Hostas. Just not worth it here - eaten as soon as they appear out of the ground, like so many other plants. My Ligularias are like lace doilies. The amount of slugs on them every day is worse than ever.

The new tulips -Honky Tonk, are doing nicely. They're a nice pale lemon when open, but today we;re unlikely to see that. Pueblo is the little narcissus behind them.

 

I came across this tree "with attitude" in Goodnestone Park Gardens yesterday.

Okay, so I've got a good imagination. I see a slim lady with hand on hip, and unusual hairstyle.

 

Hawthorn Crimson Cloud the bees are loving this!


Foxgloves


Azalea


Chives

 

My hawthorn crimson is just starting to blossom too, they look soo good!

 

English bluebells in my garden

 

So many interesting plants to catch up on..
Some of mine are updates to earlier..
Lavender 'Victory'..

Verbascum..

Convolvulus cneorum.. / Berberis 'Admiration'..

Halimium libanotis..

Helianthemum 'Supreme'..

Berberis 'Bagatelle'..

Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' / Imperata 'rubra'.. Hakonechloa..

..simple chives..

 

In the garden today.

 

I see "elephant lady"