What's Looking Good May 2025

Love all the variety in your hosta leaves, @AnniD.

 

My first rose to open, Amethyst Star.

10.00 am.



11.00 am.

 

A fragile beauty of David Austin's Summer Song. It fades and bakes quickly in the sun. But I still love it, the colour, the shape, fragrance.

 

Beautiful colour, I love orange flowers.

 

Everything looking lovely Anni,How nice to see Hostas not representing lace curtains!!

 

Clematis bees jubilee

 

Some more orange for you @Victoria, Geum Scarlet Tempest.

 

2 outdoor Sungolds potted on this morning.
Growing fast with plenty of flowers..should be a good crop ,
jenny namaste

 

Back in 2016, @noisette47 gave me some peony rockii seed. They started flowering after about 7-8 years, but one was a bit slower. It has gorgeous brown foliage for most of spring. Now it has gone green, and I've had its first ever flower. Wow!

I think "mummy rockii" had dealings with some non -rockii pollen. But I'm not complaining!

 

I don't think the hostas have ever looked so good. Usually they're eaten to shreds by now:

 

Wow indeed! You've got the patience of a saint...But the search for the Holy Grail of the species continues...They are available to buy here at rare plant fairs but they never achieve the lush proportions of the shrubs growing further north in Normandy.

 

Never know the north east to be so advanced allready

 

Salvia "cherry lips"


Iris


Leucathoe "Rainbow"

 

@noisette47 the other seed you gave me are looking "proper rockii", and one is so bumptious it has spread over and practically blocked the adjacent path! So I'm going to air layer it before I have to cut it back to allow access. Have you ever succeeded with cuttings of rockii? They haven't worked for me.
By the way, any idea what the pollen donor was for my pink rockii? The colour is a pink from the bluer end - mascula maybe?


Mitraris coccinea - it's on the edge of hardy

 

Hi, I've never tried cuttings. The 'donor' for the other one would have been a GC-bought cultivar. One of the double, blowsy plants imported from Holland no doubt! I can't resist them That rather gives the lie to doubles being sterile!