Another very sunny week but with a cold east wind, not T shirt weather any more! Tonight will bring thunderstorms from the south so that should be interesting and the rain could carry on for Sunday and Monday, not to worry, the garden will be happy! I have managed a little bit more weeding each day so far with a bit of cutting back where necessary, just to use some different muscles!
Now for this week’s six…………..
Chives are in full flower. My original plant was planted on the rockery but sadly died. The following year I found that it had seeded down between the cracks of the paving of the patio and that is where they come up every year, in spite of being flooded every winter!
Rhododendron Princess Anne is on the rockery, just a dwarf shrub and very well behaved! The colour is such a lovely pale yellow, doesn’t clash with anything around it.
Viburnum plicatum Mariesii is in full flower now and looking beautiful with its horizontal branches laden with flowers.
Viburnum plicatum, the snowball bush, with fewer flowers than usual as the gardener pruned it last autumn. Hopefully it will be back to full flowering mode by next year.
Azalea Persil by the dead oak, with beautiful flowers.
The beautiful flowers have a wonderful perfume to match! No wonder I have a seat beside it for morning coffee!
Azalea Homebush, another with an amazing perfume. I think this should have been pruned last year but it got forgotten, must do it this year when it has finished flowering.
Those are my six for this week. The rhododendrons and azaleas are making the garden look very colourful at the moment and the viburnums look wonderful in the background. If you want to see more spring flowers and shrubs then do pay Jim a visit at Garden Ruminations where there will be plenty.
You have some beautiful spring flowering shrubs, I couldn’t pick a favourite! Are the azaleas fragrant, that might sway my decision. Have a great week.
Thanks Gill, I do like to surround myself with perfume in the garden, yes, the deciduous azaleas are perfumed, that was why I planted one beside my coffee spot!
What a good idea to have a seat next to ‘Persil’! It must be lovely to be surrounded by the scent.
The viburnum are lovely, especially Mariesii.
It is lovely to sit for a few moments in the garden Helen, especially now when there is so much perfume from the shrubs.
I love the the snowball bush, I saw one a few years ago, but couldn’t name it at the time.
The flowers are unusual Rosie and just like snowballs! Glad to have identified it for you.
You must have passed the T-shirt weather on to us: We have summer-like temperatures for the week ahead. Yay! I don’t have a favorite among the plants you’ve shared here, but that Azalea is beautiful and so unique!
We have had some much needed rain today Beth, the garden will have enjoyed it. May is a wonderful month here for Azaleas and Rhododendrons, everywhere looks so colourful, as long as you have acid soil!
A beautiful selection. I love the photo of Azalea Homebush with the Viburnum in the background. Hoping for rain here too in a few days!
Thanks Graeme, we have had much needed rain here today, the garden will be feeling a lot happier!
Mostly these days I’m over wishing I had a bigger garden and resigned to the one I’ve got being bigger than I want soon enough. Then I read a post like yours and there’s nothing there I wouldn’t be very happy to have and the only one I already have is chives…..
I’m beginning to realise that my garden is rather too big for me now with just a bit of help from a gardener once a week Jim. I’m trying to make it easier to deal with and am cutting down on some of the work that I used to do when there were 2 of us out there nearly all the time. I’m now trying to get more shrubs with bulbs and a lot of mulch to cut down the weeds!
I also have 2 viburnums, but the flat variety is pretty, while the snowball variety has all the leaves nibbled by bugs that make tiny holes. I don’t know which ones, but they come every year. It doesn’t damage the blooms though?
Judging by the photo you don’t seem to be attacked by this type of insect. Your azalea is amazing ! A rare colour.
No holes on my Viburnums Fred, thank goodness! I’m very fond of Azaleas, both deciduous and evergreen, they make May a very colourful month.
Your rhododendrons and azaleas are gorgeous and must make such an impact in the garden – we have just come back from my Mum’s in the far west of Scotland where rhododendrons are also at their peak, which we don’t usually see as we haven’t been up in May before. Azalea Persil must be glorious to sit next to!
My Rhododendrons and Azaleas are only just starting to flower Cathy, we have had a couple of weeks of bitterly cold east winds so maybe this has held them back. We have had much needed rain today which has been wonderful, the garden really needed it.
Your garden’s full of lovely plants, Pauline. Your Rhodendrons and Azaleas are gorgeous and I’d love to have both of the white viburnum’s in my garden. Food for thought!
Thank you Catherine. I’m very fond of both the Viburnum but if I had to choose it would be V.p. Mariesii because of its shape with the horizontal branches, it does grow quite wide though!
Your Spring garden must really be a sight for sore eyes Pauline as well as a treat for the nose with all those wonderful scents! I didn’t realise I had A. ’Persil’ until other day I found a very old label so now once flowering begins I will be able to return it to its owner! Your Viburnams are both beautiful. I have to say Snowball is one of my favourites. Love the colour of the Homebush.
The garden is certainly colourful at the moment Denise and yes, it does smell pretty good too! How wonderful that you already have A. Persil and can return it’s label to the rightful owner!