May was very warm and sunny this year. Most of the vegetation was well in advance compared with last year. However, it was very dry and George and I had to spend every evening watering the plants in order to keep them alive.
A messy greenhouse but the tomatoes are doing well. (05/05/11)
The beans and other seeds are germinating. (05/05/11)
Some beans are already outside to harden off. (05/05/11)
Peony (05/05/11)
Oriental poppy (05/05/11)
Border – some tulips are still in flower. (07/05/11)
Alliums (07/05/11)
Jacobs ladder and polygonum (07/05/11)
Garden view (07/05/11)
The photinias have arrived and are ready to replace our dead hedge. (07/05/11)
Solanum, a member of the potato family (07/05/11)
Sweet cicely – myrrhis odorata – can be used by diabetics to replace sugar. (07/05/11)
Clematis scrambling through the cherry tree. (07/05/11)
Pink rose (07/05/11)
Weigela (07/05/11)
The vegetable garden (07/05/11)
Broad beans (07/05/11)
The vegetable garden (07/05/11)
Rosa banksiae lutea next to the water butt (07/05/11)
Oxalis (25/05/11)
Dutch iris (25/05/11)
Perennial gladiola (25/05/11)
California poppy (25/05/11)
Orchid (25/05/11)
Hanging basket (25/05/11)
Hanging basket (25/05/11)
Small white rose (25/05/11)
The broad beans are nearly ready to eat. (25/05/11)
The Victoria plums have set. (25/05/11)
Rose (25/05/11)
Louis Couperin – Prélude non mesuré