Whats Looking good May 2024

First blue Meconopsis unfolding and hosta

 

Cool colours for a hot day.


Delicate bells.

 

Echium pininana one of a pair currently flowering.


Aquilega

Arisaema ringens

Dipelta yunnanensis

Syringa microphylla a small leaved Korean lilac, doesn't sucker, it's scented, slow growing and flowers from spring into winter.

Hemerocallis middendorfi small flowered, single, scented Day Lily.


Buddleja colvillei plant

Buddleja colvillei flower cluster.

 

A divided fern donated to me, not sure of the type. I can’t remember it ever looking this good.

 

@NigelJ I saw those echiums growing in Torquay and had a go myself - ended up with what looked like a cabbage on a stalk, which the winter finished off. Your climate is so much milder down there.

 

@cactus girl yes the climate is milder down here, but I have had times when a cold east wind has finished off the top half of the flower leaving a funny looking flowering stump and some times it will take up to 3 years to flower.
The big downside is the tendency to seed all over and I pull out dozens every year I have flowers. Normally I see masses of insects on them, mainly bees and hoverflies but this year very few so far.

 

..various bits and bobs, nothing exotic..
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'..

Salvia 'Royal Bumble'.. Convolvulus cneorum..

Glandora 'Grace Ward' / Geum 'Banana Daiquiri'..

Aquilegia 'Yellow Queen'..

Aquilegia 'Blue Barlow'..

Anemone 'Wild Swan'.. first flower..

Digitalis 'Cherry Brandy'..

Cistus 'Thrive'..

 

Thrive is a good moniker for that cistus.

 

Tree fern frond reaching the last stage of unfurling.



Polystichum setiferum mingling with Phormium tricolor.

 

Ceanothus.


Crinodendron

 

Few evening shots

 

@NigelJ Stunning photos. Love the Arisaema. We grow some and find the whole plant intriguing.

 

Peony ‘Bartzella’

 

I'm amazed at how much more advanced some of your gardens are than ours in south Norfolk. Roses here are in bud, not flower, alliums are nowhere near out, nor is the peony or the ceanothus. However, self seeded aquilegias are out.

 

Ah that's why you knew the name in that other thread when someone asked about his dying tree. I thought, how on earth do they know all the names.