Whats Looking good May 2024

Fab photos everyone, it’s like browsing through a plant catalogue!

Lovely! I can imagine this in my garden, is it hardy @CarolineL ?

 

Papaver orientale ex "Patty's Plum"

Rehmannia elata self seeded


Paeonia mascula from seed sown some years ago

Incarvillea delayvi


Thalictrum

Rosa "Lolabelle"

Rosa "Ziegunerknabe" an old rose This is the description I have "
Early summer flowering. An exceptionally strong, bushy and prickly shrub with hard, dark green foliage. Very tough; ideal for a poor position. Lambert, 1869."

Anomatheca laxa

Geranium "Kanahitobanawa"

Heuchera

 

It is, isn't it? And with the added advantage you can ask qus.

Love that rose Ziegunerknabe, @NigelJ.

 

I was surprised and delighted to see to see my very first bloom on Hibiscus syriacus Double, French Cabaret, this morning (which I got from Italy in November 2022) ... and there are lots of buds ..

 

Physocarpus 'Diable d'Or'..


Astrantia 'Roma'.. Aquilegia 'Yellow Queen'.. Roses..


Parahebe 'Porlock'..


Parahebe 'Avalanche'..


Lavender 'Victory'.. well named.. V..


Hesperis..


Anemone 'Wild Swan'..

 

nigella and anthriscus

 

Bank in my lower garden backlit by evening sun.



Detail of Phormium Bronze Baby in evening sun with Catalpa, Fennel and Geum Totally Tangerine.



Thunbergia.

 

Lovely aspect. Do you have a large garden?

 

Arisaema flavum

Echium pinana

Arisaema ciliatum

Erodium "Rachel"

Erodium "Flore Pleno"

Allium cristophii

 

Thank you @Victoria, no it’s just an average sized garden but the two levels and high hedges make it look bigger in photos! Enough to keep me busy !

 

@Golarne the Linaria is supposed to be, but it's the first year, so we'll see!
Thanks @strongylodon - after the losses I've had recently, I'm a bit cautious regarding hardiness of callistemon and grevillea.
@NigelJ - does the rehmannia self seed reliably? I had it for a couple of years but it faded away.
Iris (name lost)

Papaver (again name lost)


My excuse is that I find labels get brittle and snap, so I lose them. I started making up nice slate labels but I now have a set of slate ones where the plants died. You can't win...

 

Can’t find much that looks like I want it to at the minute but at least these foxgloves stood up to the heavy rain and wind last Wednesday and I like the water irises even though they have been blown over a little.

 

Good morning. New flowers this morning.

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