What's Looking Good May 2025

I think it's Sum and Substance @OwdPotter and @CarolineL . I have one in a pot also, it makes a great focal point .

 

A collage from this morning ....

Trailing Geranium, Hibiscus (in the ground), first bloom Red Oleander), Brugmansia ...

 

I like Walter's Gift, @Plantminded. Are the leaves sticky to touch?

 

Flowers on my Snakebark Maple. These will be completely coating the ground before long.


This geranium was bought as a bare root this Spring as Geranium Phaeum "Samobor", but with these double flowers I think it must actually be "Joseph Green". I bought 3 bare roots which are all flowering and all the same.

 

I will soon change to the normal lens again and here are the currently last tele lens images.

The Spirea looks georgous.



The Honeybells open almost on time.

 

Buddleja colvillei


Epiphyllum hybrid "Richard Collman"


Calendula


Aquilega


Oncostema peruviana (was Scilla)


Ferula communis


Gladiolus carneus

 

I’m not sure about the leaves @ViewAhead, I’ll check tomorrow as it’s now wet after I watered it .

 

My Honeybells are in exactly the same state, throwing off the papery covering. I accidentally broke one off a week ago and put it in a vase of water where it has continued to progress and looks like it will open fully.

 

What are 'Honeybells' please?

 

Nectaroscordum Siculum, or Sicilian Honey Garlic. The supermarkets have taken to calling them Honeybells lately. They are a kind of allium, very pretty and much loved by insects. This is from last year, 11th May to be precise. This year's seem to be about a week behind.

 

Thanks @Escarpment. I'd never have guessed

 

Indeed, I bought my ones years ago at the supermarket and they were called Honeybells.

Here one of my favourite pictures from June 6, 2018. They look like bells and the bees collect the honey.

 

Not my favourites...I lost my heart to Allium christophii many years ago...

 

My one from the picture is in the sunny side of the garden. The honeybells in the shade need a few more days to open.