May 4th to May 10th
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
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
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
A new view of my Tulip pot…
