What's Looking Good In May 2020

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  1. Alisa

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      :heehee:...I know what you mean @KFF ...I'm pretty junked up too, you wouldn't know I had actually cleaned and tidied up the greenhouse last month...looks like a war zone!! A good tidy up is on my list of many jobs for tomorrow.....if I'm not distracted by a more interesting one that is :dbgrtmb:
      I rarely take pics of all my seedling in the greenhouse out of pure embarrassed at the state it's in :redface:...everyone else is so organised and theirs are so nice and tidy.
       
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        The wild garden:
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        Clematis Freda
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        Solomon's seal:
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        Rheum palamatum 'Chinese rhubarb' - english rhubarb on steroids, my hand for scale:
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        Grown from seed and now 7 years old looks like it's going to flower for the first time:
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          Rare Treat iris
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            We have a lot of clumps (is that the right technical name? :heehee:) of Irises. Many are over 40 years old and some Irises are much older than that and gifted to us nearly 50 years ago from a collector.

            I don't think that we have the names for them any more :noidea:. Some are bearded but of heights ranging from 2ft up to 5ft or more.

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            We have three large clumps of these. Two are this colour and one is a light blue. They spread like mad and we dig them out and sell them (or give them to GC members who turn up to our garden.
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              I like that brown coloured one @shiney. reminds me I have some seeds for a brown Hibiscus so must go look them out.

              My first ruffly Morning Glory have opened, caught before the rain ... these are from last year.


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                A few things in flower (inside and out)
                Tritonia suddenly surprised me, but corydalis has been flowering for a while
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                The abutilon (from seed) is still going strong AbutilonNewSm.jpg
                The grevillea rosmarinifolia seems to be constantly occupied by bees GrevilleaRosSm.jpg
                This NOID phalaenopsis seems to have appreciated being repotted last year PhalNOIDSm.jpg
                The commonest wild rose near the coast is (I think) spinosissima. It has a wonderful perfume. WildRoseSM.jpg
                The banksia ericifolia is looking even better now that the red styles have emerged. BanksiaEricifolia2Sm.jpg
                 
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                  @caroline I just got a Corydalis elata in the week from the UK and due to two week transport it looks dead(ish) so they are sending another. I love the colour. Does it really have a light Gardenia scent?
                   
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                    Nice colour of Iris @alana and Shiney

                    I've been looking a Leucosperum for the past couple of weeks because of seeing Pete Tango and come across some Banksia @CarolineL, how big is your Banksia ? and what conditions are you growing it in
                     
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                        Posted a video of what new flowers are about the garden today here. Apologies about the sound quality but there was quite a bit of wind about when I was making the video.
                         
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                              Arum elongatum
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                              Dicentra eximia
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                                Some Aquilegia
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