WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2019

[Tetters]

@Tetters that last pic of the gorse I think that it's upside down.

umm ..... no, it isn't upside down @Logan . It is Berberis darwinii, and the last picture was taken from above the shrub pointing down at the gravel driveway. I just wanted to confuse everyone

 

[zigs]

 

[Sean Regan]

We're starting to see more colour in our mostly "green" garden. It's "low maintenance" at the moment, there's nothing that really needs attention apart from mowing.

Our azalea "hedge" in our tiny front garden is in full bloom, with a couple of rhodos to follow.

More colour coming in these azaleas next to our patio. They are so tightly packed I've no idea how many of them there are. The bamboo canes are to stop the cats from creeping up on the small birds that feed on the patio.

I'm training the euonymus to grow over the stump of the big fir tree on the rockery we had cut down.

The phlox on the rockery is recovering, it took a hammering when the contractor was filling in the koi pool.

Our star azaleas. Pink and peach. Too many bluebells!

Our favourite white rhodo. Fighting for space with big tortoise shell one next to it. Lawn will get cut tomorrow if it stays dry.

Our two "tree azaleas." Nearly in bloom. Good value for money, twenty quid each from T&M a few years ago.
I prune them to shape after they've flowered each year.

Our Stellar cherry has a few cherries on it. New to us last year (e-Bay)

 

[zigs]

 

[Logan]

umm ..... no, it isn't upside down @Logan . It is Berberis darwinii, and the last picture was taken from above the shrub pointing down at the gravel driveway. I just wanted to confuse everyone

Ah yes looking at it properly I can see that it's Berberis, but the yellow flowers it looked like gorse.Sorry

 

[Logan]

A tall azalea

 

[Logan]

This is the same one but closer up no smell

A shorter one and no smell

Closer up

 

[zigs]

One of the cowslip fields on the North Downs

Red Campions are starting too.

 

[Becky]

Wild strawberries in bloom and our ceanothus

 

[zigs]

Are those wild or Alpine strawberries @Becky ?

 

[vette-kid]

 

[Sean Regan]

Beautiful garden as always Sean.
Can I please ask how you actually put the new bird feeder support on the wysteria? I have a standard wysteria which does not stand alone. I've actually got it tied on 2 sided to star pickets which I have tried to disguise with obolisks. I'd love to put some type of support directly around the trunk but I'm nervous I'll dig into the rootball and kill it.

Sorry, I missed this post. Our bird feeders are attached to to the pergola.

Two on a support post, the other two hang from wires from hooks screwed into the beams.

The small one near the top of the post is a little "house" that holds a jar of "bird peanut butter," we've another on the low wall that contains the bed to the side of the patio. The blackbirds and dunnocks prefer that one.

 

[zigs]

 

[Becky]

Are those wild or Alpine strawberries @Becky ?

I'm not too sure! Found them growing by the side of the road last year. They seem to be doing quite well, and have spread quite far since then! How can I tell the difference?

 

[Logan]

I'm not too sure! Found them growing by the side of the road last year. They seem to be doing quite well, and have spread quite far since then! How can I tell the difference?

The wild ones have very small fruit, get them in garden and spread a lot.