WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2018

Don`t see where Gail mentioned a flower anyway she said the leaves have gone pink ! @KFF

 

You didn't see the original post @Tetters .

Ditto... @Mike Allen

 

One of my Flamingos ....

 

We bought this little rhodo in June last year. We had no idea what it would look like when it flowered, as there was no illustration available. I bought it more because the leaves looked very healthy.

It was just fill a gap, between the big one on the left and the fading white one on the right.




Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised.

I found the receipt from Wyevale (I always keep 'em as they guarantee their plants)
It's called Mrs T M Lowinski. It'll only have two blooms this year and it'll have to fight for space next year.




I dead-headed the first of the rhodos this morning, I like to do them as soon as the flowers have died off, as otherwise chubby fingers can have difficulty in pinching them out without damaging the new shoots.

 

@Doghouse Riley Think you will maybe have to move Mrs Lowinsky, she is quite a strong grower and certainly not a dwarf Rhododendron. I grow her and mine is about 6ft tall.

 

Thanks for that, I was thinking about that too. I'll have another look at it in the winter and make a decision.

 

Hi Mike...here's what Catkins are for

A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster, with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated but sometimes insect-pollinated. They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged closely along a central stem which is often drooping. They are found in many plant families, including Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Moraceae, and Salicaceae. For some time, they were believed to be a key synapomorphy among the proposed Hamamelididae, also known as Amentiferae. Based on molecular phylogeny work, it is now believed that Hamamelididae is a polyphyletic group. This suggests that the catkin flower arrangement has arisen at least twice independently by convergent evolution, in Fagales and in Salicaceae. Such a convergent evolution raises questions about what the ancestral inflorescence characters might be and how catkins did evolve in these two lineages.

 

Tetters I edited it mate:embarrassed: ..after @KFF mentioned it to me besides Verdun ages ago well they do look like flowers in my eyes ...that's what you get for ignoring your optician letters

 

Ah well, now we can all spout our knowledge of cylindrical flower clusters called catkins.....can`t we

 

What a stunning show of flowers you have there mixed together and your pond looks lovely and healthy ...but my best part was this old chap here

 

Rhododendron Molten Gold



Rose Schoolgirl

 

First of the Bottlebrushes to flower, Callistemon salignus. Three pinks, four reds and another yellow to come.


Salvia melen.