The clematis are showing off

 Rebecca 

Mrs N Thompson

Another one I don't know the name of

and a lovely chocolatey aquilegia

Middle of May

 There has been a lot of rain over the last couple of weeks and everything is growing like mad in the garden. Next door is wisteria is blooming on our fence. 

I've been out weeding there were a lot of weeds! I had ordered a lot of hardy perennials from gardeners world they came this week, and to my disappointment they were absolutely tiny tiny plugs. The instructions were to pot them on but I've given all my small pots to school so I took the risk of planting them in the garden after all they were free. So I planted some campanula Canterbury bells and some coreopsis golden joy early sunrise, and some scabiosa Beaujolais bonnets. I watered them in and thankfully this week looks like it's going to be mild cloudy and with some showers so hopefully they wont get killed off. 

You can also see that dwarf irises that Sue Sobell gave me which I've only just putting even though she gave me them about a month ago. 

The new rose has begun to come out in bloom

the aquilegia are looking fantastic 

and the clematis Rebecca next to the Cotinus is very effective

And the clematis that I put in last year that didn't really do much are also just starting to flower

The sempervivum are beginning to multiply

And the pots are still fantastic

Eric is finished taking up the remainder of the turf near the narrow flower bed near the house which has a lovely combination of geraniums, aquilegia and chives.

The London Pride looks very dainty next to the last of the forget-me-nots

And the leycesteria foliage is very pretty

May bank holiday and the garden is looking colourful

The grass is lush and the forget me nots are just about to be pulled out, having got quite leggy. The camellia has finished and sadly one cold night has made the rhododendron flowers turn brown but the rest of the plants are zooming up including the honeysuckle I put in earlier this year up against the fence. The two new roses are starting to grow with healthy new foliage.  I can't believe the size of the rose bush in the corner of the garden, it is a pink thorny one which I thought was a small patio rose (Jane Wood gave it to me for my 50th birthday) but this year it's going mad and putting up lots of tall new shoots. Not a patio rose! 

Honeysuckle and rose

Leaving in a few forget me nots

The clematis is beginning to climb, with some self seeded aquilegia.  There is a French lavender in amongst the forget me nots.