What's Looking Good May 2025

View from my office window.

Three bird nests in the ivy to the left.



Zoomed in

 

Some of our stock pots of Hostas for making new ones






The first of our Aquilegia, Viburnum bonariensis, Allium and Tulips

 

We have a lot of different coloured Weigela but this is always the first to flower. It only started a few days ago









The Iris sibirica are only just starting as well


Our Exochordas are already showing signs of going over


Solomon's Seal is two weeks earlier than usual









Welsh poppies grow wild all over the garden. I love them


The other Irises are also just starting

 

@Escarpment We have four purple/pink different coloured Lilacs, all double flowers and three whites. They were planted in 1953. We don't feed them at all but do water them at times like this.

 

The orange Welsh poppies also grow wild in our garden but not as profusely as the yellow ones


The first Clematis to bloom




Apart, of course, Montana


Persicaria purple fantasy


Pittosporum Tom Thumb


Rather tall Irises English cottage has light lilac edges







Euphorbia mellifera (Honey Spurge) flowers smell of honey and the nectar is very sweet but not honey. Bees love it


Perennial Lathyrus aureus (non-climbing sweetpea)

 

Thanks @Perki
Which one? I think I posted three or four in those threads on this page.

 

Thanks . They front the part of our veg plot that we have let go wild (used to be where we grew root veg which we stopped doing quite some years ago). We have just left our rhubarb patch, I guess that's about 70sq ft, and our artichoke patch (Mrs Shiney uses the flowers for flower arranging).

Behind that are our blackberry bushes (70 years old) which we keep low to the ground and our fruit trees (somewhere around 100 years old) sitting in our wild area which is full of somewhere over 1,000 cowslips and primroses at the moment.

 

They're perennials, Meconopsis cambrica (same as the yellow ones) but seed freely. Just ask the neighbour for some seeds as they seed freely.

As the flowers only last a few days (they produce new flowers from the same plant all through the season) the neighbours may cut the dead flower heads off as soon as they finish instead of leaving some on to mature. So if you are friendly enough with them they may leave some on for you.

The easiest thing is to dig up new plants if they are spreading. They may even dig them and throw them away if they find them spreading too much.

By the way - the yellow version is the County flower of Merionnydd. So there should be a lot lf them around you. Seed suppliers will sell them if the neighbours are not co-operative.