Whats Looking Good In May 2023

Well, photos actually taken yesterday at Treffgarne Hall (yellow book open day)
Embothrium coccineum just starting - huge bushes/trees
around main entrance

Cyrtanthus in border


showing size of embothrium plants
Curious tree we couldn't identify, and owner couldn't remember name. Definitely half hardy/sub tropical. Maybe someone else has an idea?


Grevillea - but which? Or hakea?

 

I've tried growing Embothrium a few times, could never keep them going longer than a couple of years.
Lots of interesting stuff, must be mild I would think.

 

Redcurrant bush.

 

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis opening its first bloom this year ...

 

Crab apple blossom beginning to fall...


Jack Frost



Camassia



Bluebells






Blueberry flowers and rhubarb growing well



Gave the wishing well pond a bit of a tidy up...





Newer pond and surrounding planting

Bleeding heart



Grateful for some bank holiday sunshine this afternoon!

 

The starlings have found the pond!

 

Calendula sown a couple of years ago.


Dipelta yunnanensis

Holboelia coriacea currently scenting the whole garden.

Oncostema peruviana

Oncostema peruviana "Paul Voelcker"

Oncostema hughii

Allium tripedale

Syringa pinnatifolia

Narcissus "Baby Moon"

Dicentra exima

Dicentra formosa oregana

 

Started a video I just posted from the garden today showing some plants in bloom with one of my surviving Embothriums that has bloomed for the first time this year and it is barely visible when I look at the video back again. Hoping the display is a bit better next year but out of initially planting about 6 it was only the two in the most sheltered spots in the garden that have survived this long, Definitely not an easy one to grow but the mature ones I see look spectacular at this time of year.

Happy gardening!

 

Yeah is interesting, good for you getting a few flowers, Ive given up, its too cold in winter and too warm in summer, and too dry mostly, and I dont have acid soil.
But I lived in hope for a few years.

 

@pete , @Macraignil the garden containing the ones I saw is in Pembrokeshire, which gets close to Cornwall in mildness. Unfortunately my visit was a bit early - I saw photos of it in full bloom which were amazing! I have 2 seedling ones just about surviving in my greenhouse, and bought a small one from the owner, so hope I might get somewhere!

 

A couple taken yesterday.

 

Oh and this one.

 

It's finally flowered! @noisette47 kindly sent me seed of peony rockii in 2016. Worth the wait
I have another due soon to flower for the first time which also might be from @noisette47 , or maybe from Plant Heritage in 2015. My third one has, I think, a couple more years to go

 

How exciting...well worth the wait.