May is the most floriferous month in my opinion. Everything seems to spring into life as the soil warms up and the daylight hours increase. Trees are green once again and many are full of enticing blossom, but the ones that are noticeable in Cornwall are the Rhododendrons and Azaleas. Cornish gardens are simply at…
Category: Spring
Spring flowering plants, bulbs and blossom
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This month is when the Allium comes into flower filling the gap between tulips and summer perennials. These plants, known as the ornamental onion, are grown for their showy flower heads which come in a wide range of sizes and shades of purple, blue, white and yellow. Even when the plant dies back the seed…
Flowers on Friday
A charming, old-fashioned cottage garden plant with bonnet-shaped flowers, often two-tone and with long graceful spurs these herbaceous perennials are invaluable for flowering in May and early June . Aquilegias fill the seasonal gap between the last of the spring bulbs and the first of the summer flowers. Self-sown they can look charming naturalised amongst shrubs…
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Iris is the flower of the Greek goddess ‘Iris’ who is the messenger of Love and uses the Rainbow to travel. A blue iris symbolises faith and hope.
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Iris confusa or the bamboo iris. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant, native to Western China. It has flowers which range from white to a soft lavender or pale blue in colour, with orange-yellow crests and purple dots. The plant’s broad, shiny leaves are attached to bamboo-like stems. Wikipedia
Flower of the Month: April
Tulips are like exotic birds. They come in different shapes, heights, colours and flowering times. You have early single and doubles and late singles and doubles. The early flowering ones open in cooler weather, right when winter is just disappearing, and tend to last longer. Their flowers have a distinct cup shape consisting of six…
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Erythronium californicum ‘ White Beauty’ has numerous large white flowers with yellow centres which sit proudly on stems up to 20cm and has pretty mottled leaves. The header image is Erythronium ‘Pagoda’ a beautiful hybrid between E. tuolumnense and E. californicum ‘White Beauty’, bearing 3 to 4 sulphur-yellow flowers on a 25cm stem in April.
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Now it is the time for the Azaleas and Rhododendrons to take centre stage although this one has suffered a bit from the cold winds and rain over the weekend.
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Amomyrtus Luma This large evergreen shrub can grow to 20 feet (6m) so not one for a small garden. In spring it produces abundant clusters of creamy-yellow flowers and both they and the foliage are scented. It usually flowers in May, but in some years can flower in March. These were seen in March here…
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Anemone coronaria Jerusalem Blue
