Thursday, 26 May 2016

Late May 2016

Without too much commentary, and eventually with captions, here are my late May garden photos
Azalia -  in my alkaline soil I have to grow them in pots

Darwin's corydalis - legitimately collected from Down House, Charles Darwin's home.


Mexican Orange Blosson, Choisya Aztec Pearl

Brunera

A bit of a weed, wild onions.

Outstanding perennial wallflower, Erysimum


The elder family, purple sambucus

next to Kolkwitzia the beauty bush.

Seen together here

Purple weigela, note the pale green sport


Peruvian lily

Crinodendron hookerianum, needs acidic soil which we provide in an ericacious bed which grows pieris and camellias also

Alliums, ancient escapees, pale blue colour a bit bleached here

Here is a purple hazel, with in front a mature gunnera

A wedge of shuttlecock ferns

My patent method of taking cuttings, this pot contains the yellow buddleia globosa

Photo from above, the front garden

And the back, the ericacious triangle

More patent cuttings, this time pinks taken from a bought bunch

A put in the middle acts as a root trainer.

Need to find a slug free  home for these tradescantia

The Dunwich rose, grown for years in these pots



Just had these new French windows fitted to replace non-functioning 60 year old originals, With Banksian rose growing over

A few shots of alliums


A fuchsia genii, around which I will plant these pheasant eye daffodils.

Choisya, with clumps of wallflower behind

Bud break - this one is Indigofera

A purple  leaved geranium

More geraniums, front garden

Front garden bed


More alliums


Lilac plus cat

A south American   plant in the middle of the kashmire genanium - need to find its label


This plant is in flower, which I dont think I have seen before, although it has grown here for five years. A good argument for keeping the weeds down. Coprosma, I think, which is described as tender. The name means 'smelling like dung', which I haven't noticed. A relative of coffee.


Hostas

My favourite, Praying Hands

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