What's Looking Good in May 2017

[vette-kid]

Zigs, can I plant something like that in the side of my waterfall area? Just add some sand or rocks and stick it in the crevices? It sits in full sun.
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I like your little oasis there. Beautiful! I'd love to do a little water feature by my banana garden.

 

[tbendl]

Thanks vette-kid. A pond would be lovely by your banana garden!!

 

[zigs]

Found this growing in the hedge

 

[Elena]

This is my pear. It blossomed in the cold. There was snow and frost. But it did it. We will have pears!!!!

 

[Becky]

I've been meaning to upload to pics from the garden for a while! So here's a selection.

We had an unusual visitor to the garden - a Jay. They're not exactly rare, but we don't often see them in the garden. This one had taken a liking to our fat-ball feeder:

Zoom & crop:

Not garden related but a friend brought me these unusual tulips - aren't they gorgeous?! My brother thought they looked like little gem lettuces

Our rhododendron and ceanothus were in full bloom:

Cytisus Boskoop Ruby:

Tiarella Spring Symphony:

 

[tbendl]

Wow Becky your yard is lovely, has a formal feel to it and looks inviting.

 

[zigs]

Jays are very shy

 

[Sheal]

Your Rhododendron looks wonderful Becky. They seem to have done well all over the country this year, perhaps it's down to the mild winter and spring.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Here's every specie that bloomed during the month of May.

Wild Strawberry, Common Blue Violet, Wild Geranium, Lanceleaf Tickseed, Yellow Star Grass, Wild Combine, Wild Ginger, Ohio Spiderwort, Wild Lupine, Stout Blue-eyed Grass, Blue Flag Iris.

Now on to June, the month of Penstemon, Rudbeckia, and Asclepias, among others.

 

[Becky]

Wow Becky your yard is lovely, has a formal feel to it and looks inviting.

Thanks! The design was pretty much done by the previous owner. We like all the buxus, but there was a lot of laurel that we took out. When my back is better (or maybe before then depending on my delegation stills ) I'm thinking of having a native section in a part of the garden that doesn't get much sun - I'm thinking lots of ferns and woodland plants

 

[Becky]

New topic for June: https://www.gardening-forums.com/threads/whats-looking-good-in-june-2017.11765/