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Gardening blogs from May 2023

The much awaited arrival! Adelghard Meconopsis.

Well I started with 2 plugs and after much attention,protection and love ,only one...

22 comments

meadowland

29 May, 2023
Meadowland

A week on the Brecon Canal

This was one of our best holidays ever. The scenery was beautiful, the Welsh people...

14 comments

wildrose

28 May, 2023
Wildrose

Our small front garden.

Front gardens don't seem to get much of a mention on this site, possibly because...

20 comments

ange2

28 May, 2023
Ange2

Such glorious weather.

We have waited a long time for this lovely spell of weather and I am enjoying it...

19 comments

wildrose

26 May, 2023
Wildrose

Mini blog.

I just had to write this whilst looking and listening to Monty and Jo Swift yet again...

11 comments

meadowland

25 May, 2023
Meadowland

Sunshine on 24th May

Tempted out with my camera, as the garden is blossoming at last! Dwarf Lilac, very...

13 comments

sheilabub

24 May, 2023
Sheilabub

Chelsea just not the same for me this year.How about for you?

Colour seems to have taken second place this year except for magenta .Brambles are...

22 comments

meadowland

22 May, 2023
Meadowland

Chelsea Flower show, 2023

Although I can no longer attend Chelsea, due to my health, I am very pleased &...

9 comments

grandad_gardener

22 May, 2023
Grandad_gar..

Daylilies May 2023

I wanted to show a couple of things that would get lost in single photos. First,...

3 comments

wylieintheazores

21 May, 2023
Wylieinthea..

Japanese Maples in May.

I did have 6! One seems to be lost up on the.bund hill..it was a small one though....

14 comments

kate123

19 May, 2023
Kate123

The Blue Flower in Romanticism

I have always loved true blue flowers and recently I found out that the concept of...

19 comments

cottagekaren22

15 May, 2023
Cottagekare..

Appropriate

I find it quite appropriate that the five fledgling Bluebirds in the nesting box...

12 comments

loosestrife2

14 May, 2023
Loosestrife2

My thanks to Eileen (seaburngirl)

For sending me this lovely Sweet Rocket (Hesperis Matronalis)... two white and one...

9 comments

sheilabub

14 May, 2023
Sheilabub

Plants I've lost this year.....

So I have totted up the plants I've lost after various cold snaps this past winter....

10 comments

amsterdam

12 May, 2023
Amsterdam

Merry month of May.

Driving round Lincolnshire yesterday..sunshine in the morning then, crikey, it was...

16 comments

kate123

12 May, 2023
Kate123

I Keep On Telling Them.......

I keep on telling my grandkids that the side of my house is not to be used as a backboard...

6 comments

loosestrife2

11 May, 2023
Loosestrife2

RHS Spring Show, Malvern.

No comment, just pics from the Floral Marquee:

11 comments

ange2

11 May, 2023
Ange2

Warm weekend gardening and a wonderful Coronation celebration.

It was a lovely Coronation weekend, the weather here in East Yorkshire was warm and...

14 comments

kate123

8 May, 2023
Kate123

Just an aside - didn’t Camilla look beautiful today?

This IS a gardening blog but being Coronation Day I just wanted to say what really...

7 comments

wildrose

6 May, 2023
Wildrose

Some fern fronds unfurling

A few of my ferns waking up and unfurling. There are still a few looking tight and...

18 comments

kate123

4 May, 2023
Kate123

Tulip end of road or maybe not?

A question I've often asked myself..Each Autumn we spend such a lot on tulip bulbs ...

8 comments

meadowland

4 May, 2023
Meadowland

Born free....

Freely growing (seeding) spring flowers in the area I call Sunvalley. I know this...

15 comments

klahanie_

3 May, 2023
Klahanie_

For Ange ... Unmown grassy area

Quite a mess! I think some Love-in-a-Mist might have spread from the bed. Maybe...

7 comments

sheilabub

3 May, 2023
Sheilabub

No Mow May

Just a reminder that we are entering the period of 'No Mow May'. We shall try it...

19 comments

ange2

3 May, 2023
Ange2

A Dorset delight.

We recently spent a week near Wareham in Dorset, staying in a self-catering lovely...

23 comments

shirley_tulip

1 May, 2023
Shirley_tulip


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