May in the Northern Hemisphere

[hamparstum]

John, I'm immensely grateful for whatever you did with your site access. I'm enjoying every bit of it. Congratulations!
Arturo

[Lampwick]

John, I'm immensely grateful for whatever you did with your site access. I'm enjoying every bit of it. Congratulations!
Arturo

Thank you Arturo.
Over the years I have enjoyed building the website, and it is nice to get positive comments.

[Gabriela]

Things are evolving so fast here, it is actually summer - today about 27C!
Trillium cuneatum


Mitella diphylla


Fothergilla major


The young Acer 'Amber Ghost' leafing out. I don't know how popular the Acer Ghost series are in UK but they are simply spectacular in the way the foliage changes from one stage to another.

[kris]

Thanks Thomas. Now I will go and label my plant. It looks more like Townsendia incana

[Yann]

Saxifraga vayredana, an endemic of Mt Montseny.

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Yann, did you get the scent?

[meanie]

Salvia spathacea, California Hummingbird Sage. This is one of a number of California native Salvias that we have blooming in our garden right now. The Hummingbirds like all of them.

That was another resounding failure here - grew well but steadfastly refused to bloom.

On the subject of Nigella, I allow them to self seed around as I use the seed a lot in the kitchen. It adds lovely mild pockets of bitterness to many dishes. Seedwise, Nigella and fennel are my two much used kitchen essentials here.

[Zdenek]

I am not able to send my new pictures today and I do not know why?

[Zdenek]

Well, I see that one of my pictures has been too large. I will try it again, with three pictures from this month:
Dianthus myrtinervius ssp. caespitosus (I am puzzled by this name as The Plant List does not know it whilst Flora of Turkey does)
Edraianthus puleviczii from Montenegro (E. serpyllifolius group)
Androsace brahmaputrae (syn. A. bisulca var. brahmaputrae)

[Zdenek]

When I have been succesful now as I can see, I send another three pictures:
Campanula pulvinaris (the rare and shy flowering plant from East Turkey)
Dianthus brevicaule (also from Turkey, my favorite)
Primula fasciculata (one from tiny himalayan Primulas)

[Robert]

That was another resounding failure here - grew well but steadfastly refused to bloom.

On the subject of Nigella, I allow them to self seed around as I use the seed a lot in the kitchen. It adds lovely mild pockets of bitterness to many dishes. Seedwise, Nigella and fennel are my two much used kitchen essentials here.

Hi meanie,

Our Sacramento garden has limited space. I grow as many of our local California native Salvia species as I can. Beyond that I enjoy many of the other Salvia species vicariously on this forum. I enjoy seeing the range of plants you grow in your garden, including the many Salvia species. Very     My latest additions to our garden are several selections of Salvia sonomensis. I love the fragrance of the foliage. They make an excellent cover for summer dry bulbs as Salvia sonomensis thrives without summer irrigation even in our summer hot, dry climate.

[Maggi Young]

Wonderful to hear from you Zdenek!

Dianthus myrtinervius ssp. caespitosus (I am puzzled by this name as The Plant List does not know it whilst Flora of Turkey does)

 The Plant List has quite a lot of  errors and omissions, it is true.

[shelagh]

We see a lot of individual plants in this section but with all the sun we have had over the past week the whole garden has erupted. We have a small garden but Brian has packed a lot into it, I thought I'd show you what it looks like at the minute.

[shelagh]

Unfortunately with the Show plants in pots poor Brian has had watering can attached to his arm for several days.

[shelagh]

Oh by the way the lovely lady who adorns our garden was found many years ago at a Nursery in Hexham.  I thought of calling her Bathsheba or Desdemona but Brian christened her Maud from the famous Victorian/Edwardian song "Come into the garden Maud".