Stuart and May - I will not forget you.

Forget-me-not

Last week when I visited my summerhouse I sat in a room next to the kitchen and suddenly I heard a strange sound from the kitchen, a rustling noise. It came from a plastic bag with my Danish rye bread. I realized pretty fast that ‘Stuart Little’ paid me a visit. I tossed a cork at the bag to frighten Stuart away but without luck. I quickly emptied a zinc bucket and pushed the bag

Tulipa tarda

Tulipa tarda
More tulips from my garden and this time it is the Tulipa tarda. I find it very pretty in it's simplicity. Have you got an English name for it? I'm sure you have this tulip in the northern states of US, Canada and GB.
The plant is about 10-20 cm tall (up to 8 inches), dark green stem, 3-7 light green leaves that froms a rosette. The flowers are quite small up to 5 cm in diameter,

Rhododendron Garden | Rhododendron Care | Rhododendron Plant Flower

Unusual Rhododendron

Flowering Crabapple Tree | Flowering Crabapple Tree Pictures

Flowering Crabapple
Malus 'Strawberry Parfait'

Golden Japanese Barberry Dwarf Golden Barberry Golden Nugget Barberry

Golden Barberry

Golden Barberry
Berberis 'Golden Carousel'

Geranium Plants Geranium Flowers Geranium Red Rose Geranium

Picture showing the unique foliage of 'Crystal Palace Gem' Geranium

Crystal Palace Gem Zonal Geranium

Zonal Geranium
Pelargonium x hortorum 'Crystal Palace Gem'

Blue Rhododendron Flowers | Washington State Flower| Coast Rhododendron

Blue Rhododendron

Blue Rhododendron
Rhododendron polycladum ‘Blue Diamond’

Weeping Redbud ree Weeping Texas Redbud | Weeping Eastern Redbud

Weeping Texas Redbud

Weeping Texas Redbud
Cercis canadensis var. texensis 'Traveler'

Azalea Flower Hot Shot Azalea | Azalea Plant | Azaleas Flowers

Hot Shot Azalea

Azalea
Rhododendron 'Girard's Hot Shot'

Orchid Flowers Big Island Orchid | Orchid Flower Pictures

Big Island Orchid

Big Island Orchid
Unknown Species

Candytuft Perennial | Candytuft Plant | Evergreen Candytuft Flower

Evergreen Candytuft
Iberis sempervirens 'Purity'

Rloribunda Rose | Wisteria Floribunda | Stephanotis Floribunda

Floribunda Rose ‘Cinco de Mayo’

Floribunda Rose ‘Cinco de Mayo’
Synonyms: Celebration Time, Wekcobeju

Breeder: Tom Carruth, US, 2006
Introduced: Weeks Wholesale Rose Growers, 2009
Petal Count: 17-25 petals
Parentage: Topsy Turvy × Julia Child

Canary Island Broom Flowers

Canary Island Broom
Genista canariensis

Flower of the month of May - Tulipa

Botanical Tulips vs. Hybrids



Tulips in bloom, what a joy!

Most of my tulips are botanical tulips I find them so very attractive, small and pretty, perhaps not as 'fancy' as the tall hybrid cultivars but they are just the way I like them. Another positive thing about the species tulips are that they are early, most of the hybridized are in bloom much later and then after they flowered I