Weather: The first week of May starts damp, but promises lots more dry sunny weather to bring our plants on.April 2020 was the sunniest on record!
Sue Gray starts us off this week
Iberis sempervirens – the perennial candytuft
Geum coccineum ‘Koi’
Epimedium x rubrum foliage already colouring up, but will just get better & better right until next Spring
Clematis ‘Early Sensation’ – although, ironically, I think flowering a bit later than usual this year
Camassia leichtlinii
Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’
Preston Harrison has a fine variety of plants – and a handsome stripy lawn
Viola ‘Inverurie Beauty’, good for front of borders
Rhododendron (Azalea) luteum. My favourite fragrance in the plant world
Prunus laurocerasus ‘Otto Luyken’
Primula vulgaris ‘Captain Blood’
GRASS an essential hardy plant for my garden
Emerging hosta leaves
Camassia cusickii
BERGENIA cordiality ‘Silberlicht’
Maggie Sugden is back with some new flowerings
Viola ‘Molly Sanderson’
Syringa – don’t know which one
Ranunculus
Podophyllum versipelle ‘Spotty Dotty’ – still going strong
Phlox subulata ‘Purple Beauty’
Centaurea – maybe C. montana ‘Purple Heart’?
Abutilon × suntense ‘Violetta’
Judith Edmonds is back again with a second contribution
Aeonium ‘Voodoo’ (and other succulents) I never realised these even flowered, apparently they die after flowering which is a shame as I don’t have another one! I’ve had this plant for 3 years, it lives outside in the summer and in an unheated but sunny porch in the winter.
Rosa ‘Margaret Merrill’ -NEVER had a rose flower this early before
Bicolour tulip ‘Slawa’ with ‘Recreado’ Slawa is much shorter than I expected. I have Recreado elsewhere but these newly bought bulbs are slightly different, much taller, and lighter purple.
Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Aglaia’ – HPS auction plant, cut down in the autumn has been flowering on shorter than normal stems since January
Just one superb contribution from Terry Benton this week
Cirsium rivulare (Cultivated thistle)
Judith Ladley offers another excellent selection
Erigeron karvinskianus at the start of its take-over of my drive
Euphorbia polychroma – this really is a vibrant plant
Helichrysum amorginum ‘Ruby Cluster’ with Rhodiola
Iberis (candytuft) ‘Pink Ice’
Lithodora diffusa withself-seeded ballota and Geranium cappuccino in pot
Silene fimbriata with Lunaria rediviva in background
Symphytum x uplandicum variegatum with Smyrnium perfoliatum
Denise Dyson has managed to buy plants a’plenty
Thought you might like to see the results of an exciting delivery (not Boris’s) of over 100 plants. A great selection of perennials to play with. The supplier lives locally and sells only on Knaresborough market because where his nursery is he is only allowed to deal with trade.
A new view of my Tulip pot…
Tulip pot from the air, still going – ‘Queen of Night’, Estella Rijnveld’, Rembrandt ‘Grand Perfection’