May in the Northern Hemisphere 2020

[Maggi Young]

Hello Knud, great to see  you back with these  great photos!

[Maggi Young]

Some  photos  from the  private  garden of  two SRGC members (who also happen to be  old  friends of mine)  from Helensburgh, on Scotland's  west  coast.

[Leucogenes]

Pyrethrum leontopodium rewards my efforts with an abundant flowering this year...so it can go on...😎

[Pauli]

General view of my rockgarden
Salvia quezelii
Jasminum parkeri
Iris variegata reginae

[Knud]

Thank you, Maggi.

The cool spring has kept three Pink-shell Azaleas blooming for more than a month, but the last one is now giving in to unfurling leaves. I sowed these Rhododendron vaseyi twenty-some years ago, and they are now taller than me.

The Ranunculus parnassifolia blooms for the first time this year, many years after sowing and sprouting. Only the two plants I have kept in a large (20 cm/8'' diameter and as deep) clay pot have survived, and thrive; between them they have more than 25 buds, quite a debut. I gather it is not normally a difficult plant in the garden, but the two in the pot have spent their winters under the same wet sky as those that disappeared in the rock-garden. Maybe that part my rock-garden is not sufficiently well drained.

Rhodiola pachyclados is pretty all year, but its (here normally sparse) blooming does add a nice touch.

[Leena]

Primulas are flowering now.

[ian mcdonald]

Sticky catchfly, Lychnis viscaria.



Yellow milk-vetch, Oxytropis campestris.



Brittle bladder-fern, Cystopteris fragilis.



Rusty back, Ceterach officinarum.



Hard shield fern, Polystichum aculeatum.

[ian mcdonald]

Crested buckler-fern, Dryopteris cristata.



Lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina.



Polystichum sp. from Ardfearn Nursery.



Harts tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium and Maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes.



Hard fern, Blechnum spicant.

[ian mcdonald]

Royal fern, Osmunda regalis.



Beech fern, Phegopteris connectilis.

[Gabriela]

Nice to see all these ferns Ian, reminding of cool, shaded places. We are currently through a heat wave in Ontario.

Few from the garden: Tulips, Lewisia, hybrid Iris and Leucojum

[Maggi Young]

These  are  photos  of the  garden of  two SRGC folks this month -  first, from Hon. Treasurer, Richard Green....



 and  this  is  the  garden of  the  Editor (of  The  Rock Garden, the  twice  yearly  SRGC journal ) - Anton Edwards ....



Lovely, are they not?

[kris]

both are lovely

[Maggi Young]

 two more  photos from the  garden of  Margaret  and  Anton Edwards- these  from the  end  of  April ...


Lady’s smock in dappled shade in the as yet uncut area of grass

[cohan]

Disporum megalanthum in flower. Seed from Green Mile was planted in 2011, one seed only sprouted in 2017. This small plant is entering its 4th year, it was incredibly slow growing - minute for 2 years - and only looks like it will indeed survive this year.    And so unsprouted pots pile up and up.

john

ah, the unsprouted pots! but mine all soon start to sprout something-- often spruce, poplar, willow and birch seedlings, but also dandelions and willow herb, of course..... Maybe that one Disporum will give you new seeds?

[cohan]

The garden is always at its top early May.

Spectacular my peak arrives rather later..