Monthly Archives: May 2016

I am joining in with  Country Garden blog where Gillian’s meme encourages us to share what is giving us pleasure in the garden on the last Friday in the month.  Loree of Danger Garden has a similar meme of favourite plants each month. … Continue reading →

Maybe I should have called this post’ Gather Ye Canary Birds While Ye May’  because I have used the lovely little Canary Bird Rose, always the first to bloom in my garden. It makes a lovely shrub covered in buttery- … Continue reading →

‘ Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night’.  Rainer Maria Rilke. In May, every day brings new delights in the garden, last week’ … Continue reading →

 Calycanthus  x raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ This is a new and extremely rare hybrid between Calycanthus floridus and the beautiful  Chinese Sinocalycanthus. I used to grow Calycanthus occidentalis and the flowers were small and a rather disappointing rusty red. I found  Sinocalycanthus … Continue reading →

I have a little Tunstall pansy jug which obviously has to be filled with pansies. In French pansies are called ‘Pensées’ and perhaps this is where the word pansy comes from. I have often wondered why they are called ‘Pensées’, … Continue reading →

Because of repeated glaciations our tiny island has a relatively poor number of native wild flowers compared with the rest of Europe. But we do  have more than a quarter of the world’s bluebell woods and what a glory they are. Kate … Continue reading →

Like most gardeners, I am always reluctant to leave my garden during those three magical months, April, May and June. But  still, there are other people to be considered; non-gardeners who don’t understand this peculiarity. And so this  last week, I was … Continue reading →