What's Looking Good May 2025

Dryopteris erythrosora, with its fresh copper fronds.



This is a self sown Aquilegia, which I've allowed to stay.



Alpine trough.



Amethyst Star rose, open flowered for pollinators.



Osteospermum.

 

@wiseowl
How nice to see the setting for some of these lovely plants. I like your path wending down.

 

Geum "Mrs Bradshaw" - first flower of the year


French Marigold. I gave up with my seed sown ones and bought some plants from the supermarket.


Nectaroscordum


Geranium "Johnson's Blue"


Salvia - I don't know exactly which. I bought a small cutting for £1 from a car boot sale about 3 years ago and now I have them all over the garden!

 

Geranium maculatum "Schokoprinz"


Echium 1


Echium 2


Echium 3


Aquilegia


Aquilegia 2

 

Looks like Slugs & Snails are on strike this year

Echiums looks great Nigel

 

Red climbing rose "Mushimara"
"GoldenWedding" Starts out as a lovely coloured bud,but then reverts to more pinky.
"Ernest Markham" Clematis.

 

Since there is no thread for 'What ISN'T looking good in May' I've put this here - it's my Sambucus niger, I've never seen it wilting before. In fact I've never seen any of my shrubs in the ground wilting, their roots go down far enough to get water ... but this year it's been so dry my Sambucus is wilting.
I hope the others are all right

I've given the Sambucus a watering can full of water, but had to wait a while before I could do it - Bella was taking a nap under it !
And it's got lots of flowers appearing this year too, I hope they'll perk up !

 

Crinodendron.


I bought what I think was a micro propagated Strelitzia about three years ago, turned out it was actually 2 tiny plants which I separated, both are going to flower this year at barely 2 ft tall, the fist opened today.

 

The colour is coming.

 

Lupins grow wild all over Scandinavia too @pete.

 

Canna Pretoria in this morning's sun.



Honeysuckle flower buds emerging.



Tree fern fronds unfurling.

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Has your Sambucus rallied following hydration, @Michael Hewett?

 

Bougainvilla against house looking good with Honeysuckle ...

 

Unfortunately it hasn't @ViewAhead thanks for asking ... but it is very old and also trained along a wrought iron fence, so maybe there's something wrong with it anyway. All the other plants around it are fine.
However, there are some nice strong shoots emerging from lower down on the plant so I am hoping they will grow to replace the old top bit.