WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN MAY 2018

[Sheal]

With only a few plants that flower in my new-ish garden there's very little to show you at the moment. But one of my pine trees is absolutely covered in new cones, may be the bad winter had something to do with it.

 

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[Larisa]

 

[Larisa]

 

[Larisa]

 

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[Sheal]

Lovely flowers everyone!

@Larisa can you tell me the name of the purple flowers in post #93, top right picture please?

 

[Larisa]

@Larisa can you tell me the name of the purple flowers in post #93, top right picture please?

Latin name saxifraga arendsii carpet pink.

 

[Sheal]

Thank you Larisa but you surprise me, the flowers look to big for Arendensii.

 

[Larisa]

@Sheal Often I take photos not flowers, but my mood.

 

[DeborahJane]

That's a native plant I just discovered going thru a local native park here in Jacksonville. I was helping the Native Plant society clean up the park and they had too many of these things, so I took some plants and seeds and planted it in my garden, but because it was the end of the year they never grew, but luckily they started popping up in the spring.

It's suppose to be a super pollinator attractor, so I got it to help out-compete with another super pollinator plant that can become very invasive (Spanish Nettle) and take over my garden.

The scientific name of the plant above is Melanthera nivea (AKA: Snow Squarestem) As the common name implies, its stem is square, but it's not in the mint family, rather it's in the aster family. http://www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx=Melanive

I also loved the Lions Ear image and managed to find an orange one at a nursery last weekend. I've planted it and looking forward to it doing its thing . Thanks for the inspiration

 

[JBtheExplorer]

May is going out with a bang! Eastern Red Columbine, Spiderwort and Blue Flag Iris all started blooming!

 

[Sean Regan]

Our Sambucus is starting to flower. There's about a dozen blooms.

This Piilu clematis has over a dozen new flowers to come.

Our new wisteria is doing its best to climb over the pergola.

Our tortoise shell rhodo is now in full bloom and a few behind it, of the couple of dozen giant lilies we have in the garden, will soon be in flower.

The problem with this rhodo is that it has outgrown everything.
My original intention was that there would be several features to draw the eye down the garden in stages, ending with the tea-house on one side and the little pagoda, (not so little, it's six feet tall with the sōrin) on the other side.


But it's scuppered that.

You can't see the pagoda from the house now. Not even from the patio

Only from here.

Only from here.