Flower times and things that grew in may possibly. A shelfie to share all the best blooms that ended up in the yard this late spring. From fragile poppies with tissue paper petals to rough pom poms of chive flowers. Bladder campion on wiry stems and sweetly scented sweet peas, there is calendula in abundance and an explosion of sweet rocket, arcs of campanula and trails of custard coloured nasturtiums, vanilla scented Nemesia, autumn-sown snapdragons in apple blossom pink and a handful of rattling brizia to major it all off.
The developing room we created very last calendar year is comprehensive of inexperienced leaves and new shoots, so a lot additional in bud waiting around to open up and unfold, the roses are blooming on the arches and in the beds wildly now. Time enabling I will be back again before long and my subsequent publish will be a tour of the cottage back garden and greenhouse to see it now, what is developing, and examine it to very last yr.
But for now, these are the matters that grew in May well, all my favourites gathered alongside one another in the window of the lean-to. The winds have so far been really kind and the blend of sunshine and showers has meant the lushness is off the scale in contrast to very last year’s cold but dry spring. To be going into summer with very little parched is this kind of a blessing. Now I have just bought to preserve the slugs absent from the dahlias and zinnias for the upcoming act. Desire me luck! x 
