What's Looking Good in May

[zigs]

Please add your own pictures of anything nice

 

[Everbrown]

I got nuttin , magnolias gone ny and dogwood didn't flower this year

 

[Claire]

I'm not sure how to upload pics here, but here's the link to my garden journal entry for May. Lots of pics!

That entry was done really more at the end of April. I now have strawberries (a few), flowers on all my tomato plants, broccoli, and some serious growth in my potatoes.

I thought I had killed my spinach with the heat, but it has come back. We shall see how long it lasts. I'm also eager to see what happens with the broccoli. I've never grown it before and one plant already tried to flower. Ugh. I cut it back and am hoping it recovers without a lot of affect on the flavor.

 

[claudine]

It's one of the most beautiful lilac bushes I've ever seen! There are a few of them here too, I'll try to take a picture of them tomorrow.
I live on the Lilac Bush Street near the Lilac Bush Square. As you can guess, many people here want to grow lilacs

 

[zigs]

I got nuttin , magnolias gone ny and dogwood didn't flower this year

Aww, hope it picks up

 

[Chuck]

I hope these peaches get a little nicer and they will if the coons don't get them first

 

[DeborahJane]

10 days off winter here so not much blooming. Green is good. I have tided up my rubbish bin area and very pleased with it!!!! Not really photo material though. As always I am on this forum in the wee hours of the morning with my insomnia so too dark to go looking for a nice shot. There is a pretty clematis in a planter though.

 

[DeborahJane]

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I planted an apricot tree 3 years ago but no apricots yet. Hopefully it will produce abundantly like yours one day. Yours looks great.

 

[Sheal]

My garden is just starting to come to life.

Saxifraga 'Arendensii'

Solomon's Seal behind Azalea

 

[ChanellG]

I'll have to start taking some photos - should have snapped one of the bee balm where I was working this morning. Maybe if there's enough light out after the rain clears up I can look around for something pretty worth posting. Don't think I had a flower today on the passion vine, but the rose of Sharon opened and I have a rose coming in on the new bush.

 

[Beth_B]

That is a huge freaking lilac bush.

I haven't taken many garden photos this year yet; mind you we're just barely starting our growing season. Freeze/frost predicted for Tuesday night-Wednesday morning so I'm holding off on planting veggies (except for my asparagus, which is perennial, just in its second year and currently the tallest ferns are 3' tall and branching out all over the place.)

Two weekends ago I dug an 8x4' pond; the deepest part is maybe 30 inches. It still needs LOTS of work! And lots more plants. And rocks. Lots more rocks.

 

[Bootsy]

Tree peony

Exochorda 'The Bride'

A different type of tree peony

Saphora

Poppies

Pink Weigelia

 

[Bootsy]

Clematis

This Cistus is about to burst into flower.

The reddish colour are the flower buds and there must be a few thousand of them. This is the first one to open

 

[Bootsy]

The first of our Irises to bloom

Some others trying to get into the act. They should start to open by the weekend

Allium siculum trying to open

This one has managed it

Viburnum plicata

 

[grouie]

May is the month here in most part of India for the may flower tree to show off. The botanical name is Royal Poinciana. Thee trees dot the landscape on highways and is a riot of colour both red and orange. This tree brings in happy news for kids as the schools close to open only in June.

Image credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Poinciana.jpg

The other flowering tree is Peltophorum which can be seen on highways and byways as well. I have a tree growing just outside my compound

The roads get strewn with petals and that again is a sight for sore eyes.