Poppies and Irises

 Another lovely sunny day and stunning bright red oriental poppies and yellow irises came into flower

What a difference a day makes...

Tuesday - wild and wet with heavy rain, hail and the garden path turning into a stream

Wednesday - blue skies and blossom

Mad May Weather

This Spring's crazy weather continues with blustery winds and hail - so much hail that it looked like snow had fallen.

Just in case....

Double wrapped tomatoes

The calendar says it's May and we should be heading towards summer but in Yorkshire and Devon snow has been falling in the last 24 hours - and tonight's temperature here is set to drop to 3. That's not desperately cold ... but  .. I've got tomato plants and a cucumber planted out in the greenhouse and baby lettuce in the garden and blossom on the apple trees. There's nothing really I can do apart from cover everything in swathes of fleece and bubblewrap and keep my fingers crossed .....and wait till morning...

somewhere under there is the cucumber..

May vegetables and fruit

Everything's coming along in leaps and bounds at the moment.

With warmer days - and nights - I decided to plan out the blue-podded peas












and some lettuce and spinach seedlings

 though I still ave lots of things growing on either in the greenhouse or out in the sun - brassicas, peas and beans mostly with some flowers thrown in.

the warm weather is causing the land cress to flower early though - soon this patch will be bright yellow

there's blossom everywhere - on currants, apple and I'm hoping there'll be some soon on the greenhouse vine









































and most importantly we're starting to harvest new spring crops - rhubarb from the allotment and radishes from the greenhouses

May flowers

May has started with the most glorious weather and a garden full of flowers. Lots of early ones - daffodils and forsythia - are still around but later ones  - tulips and honesty - are catching up.

tulips and forget-me-nots

dog violets under the peach tree

appeldoorn tulips

pretty and productive - daffodils and rhubarb

one of the recent 'rescue' polyanthus settling in

May Flowers

Apple blossom

Self-set rocket already in flower

Clematis montana

ornamental cherry

I've cheated slightly with this month's flower round up. Yesterday was a rare  sunny day in-between
weeks of rain, so I took the photos then.



Today, things are looking damp again. 

Angelique tulip

Rhododendron

Whitebells and honesty

Appeldoorn tulip

More appleblossom