Some May favourites

I can see why these plants give you joy, they are beautiful.
My Libertia is not flowering yet but I think buds are forming.

That Cornus is stunning.

Thanks Eileen. I thought the same about my Libertia, then it suddenly sprang to life 🙂.

Thank you kindly Klahanie 🙂.

Yes I think they look really pretty too and I also like the Liberia with such dainty flowers.
Here it has rained all day long and is actually quite chilly too!
Our green house is so full we can barely get into it!!!

Your greenhouse has obviously occupied you greatly during lock down, such a lot of lovely healthy cuttings.

Many thanks Chris and Sue 🙂.

It’s all looking lush and very pristine, Sheila. Your pelargoniums are so healthy. Love the colours too, especially the pink/white one.
Steve’s acer is a beauty. It looks a happy and colourful one.
Sending you best wishes! Gardening is definitely good medicine. 💞

Love the Acer & the Cornus. Yes, thank goodness we have our gardens & isn't lovely when we get a glimpse of the sun. It's starting off sunny this am. I hope it will last, so much rain recently.

Thank you Kate for your typically generous comments 🙂. Sending you a PM.

Thanks Josee, yes, more sunshine would be very welcome!

You have such attractive plants in your garden, Sheila. I envy your Cornus and the Acer is a gem. I like the Candy pelargoniums. I have just bought a pack of bright scarlet pelargoniums because they remind me of a book I loved as a child: "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge. Did you ever read it? They have scarlet geraniums on their kitchen windowsill in the story. That's what I shall do with one of mine!

Ange, thanks so much, you’re very kind! Elizabeth Goudge is (was?) a lovely writer, but I can’t remember which books of hers I read ... The House on the Hill perhaps?

I’ve just been reading How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes ... the illustrations are wonderful. Do you know it?

I love Jackie Morris illustrations if that's the version you mean, Sheila. We gave our granddaughter "The Song of the Golden Hare" a couple of years ago. It was SO beautiful.

How old was your granddaughter then, Ange? It’s tricky knowing whether they would appreciate ‘older’ picture books.

I think she was about 8 or 9, Sheila. I loved the book, even if she didn't!!

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I agree with your last sentence, I couldn't survive without my garden :)

Thanks Hywel, yes, our gardens are such a blessing 🙂.

Sheila, I like all the plants and cuttings you have shown us today . . . those Pelargoniums are so very pretty.

Shirley, thank you 🙂.