May proved to be a sunny warm month with, unfortunately for the gardeners, very little rainfall. It did mean a lot of hand watering using the water butts. By the end of the month the garden was looking very colourful and the vegetable garden was doing well.
Wisteria Sinensis (06/05/09)
Apple blossom (06/05/09)
White lilac (06/05/09)
Acer (06/05/09)
Garden view from the North-West (10/05/09)
A yellow border (10/05/09)
Woodruff used for our Maibowle (10/05/09)
New fronds on a fern (10/05/09)
View to the house with choisya in the foreground (10/05/09)
Polygonum in front of the golden hop. (10/05/09)
Clematis montana … (10/05/09)
… and here it is covering the cherry tree. (10/05/09)
A pink version of clematis Montana climbing an old apple tree (10/05/09)
Hawthorn (10/05/09)
White iris (20/05/09)
An ornamental allium (20/05/09)
Peonies (20/05/09)
The vegetable garden. (20/05/09)
The tomatoes have been planted out. (20/05/09)
The Wisteria Macrobotris resembles a waterfall (20/05/09)
A European Common Frog (Rana Temporaria) is disturbed by lawn mowing. (22/05/09)
A corner of the terrace (22/05/09)
Osteospermum (22/05/09)
A golden mock orange (philadelphus) (22/05/09)
Looking towards the back of the garden (22/05/09)
Ceanothus at the corner of the house (22/05/09)
Yellow iris (22/05/09)
Blue iris (22/05/09)
Garden view from the greenhouse (22/05/09)
Ann potting up plants (23/05/09)
Ann tending the peonies (23/05/09)
George culling the creepers (26/05/09)
Blue iris (26/05/09)
A mock orange blossom (26/05/09)
Weigela (26/05/09)
Planting around the birdbath (26/05/09)
A white rose (26/05/09)
An ornamental poppy (31/05/09)
A bee visits the blackberry blossom. (31/05/09)
A crowd of violas (31/05/09)
The hanging basket is starting to bloom (31/05/09)
Somewhere in this jungle, very well hidden, is a brooding blackbird. (31/05/09)
Kevin Kern – Fairy Wings