What's in flower in your garden right now?

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Not much in bloom in my garden right now and looking for ideas for May flowers.

Allium, roses, salvia, cosmos, ceanothus, weigela, geum, wallflower, geranium (just), viola, foxgloves, Erigeron, fuschia, cornflower, marigold, cow parsley, cotinus, phlox, delphinium, pelargonium, scabious, wisteria, bacopa, heuchera, verbascum, euphorbia, strawberry, chrysanthemums, black-eyed Susan, petunia, lavender, chives and some stuff I should know the names of but don’t.

Here in South Yorkshire - Clematis, peonies, wigelia, huge bush fuchsia and the most beautiful giant alliums (christophii and red giant star, from Farmer Gracy)

Our garden's a complete random mishmash, so quite a bit. Lavender, peonies (although these are sadly very bedraggled due to all the rain) hydrangea, rhododendron, azaleas, loads of Bowles Mauve (going strong since March!), campanula and salvia hot lips all in flower. Various roses and Chilean potato also looking lovely. Alliums are already going over to seed sadly, but rose campion, valerian, poppies, fuchsia and everlasting sweetpea will be coming in the next month or so. London and in a sheltered spot so everything seems to flower quite early.

Just been and had a look. It has taken a battering from the rain over the last few days and this is what is left but lots still to open. It isn't all white after all, it has purple inside and the stamens are purple.

The Aquilegia is lovely this year.

Aquilegia
Welsh poppies
Ornamental.poppies just starting
Clematis
Rosemary
Scabious
London Pride
Alchemilla

Everything else is behind some not even in bud yet.

Alliums

Roses

Geums

Ceanothus

Some geraniums just starting to flower

Lupins, anemones plus the sage and curry plant. Slim pickings for now!

Allium, rhododendron, fuchsia, lavender and the hydrangeas are just starting to get some colour, plus one random rose.

The Sweet Williams that I planted about four years ago on the roof of the shed have made their first appearance this year alongside the Nigella and forget me nots.

Clematis, rambling rose and salvia, brightened up with a few pots of summer bedding.

Alliums, clematis, broom, the roses have started, the honeysuckle is in bud, aquilegia, peonies.

Lots!
Honeysuckle
Salvia
Nepeta
Roses
Aquigela
Hardy geraniums
Borage
Phlox
Foxgloves
Pulmonaria
Choiysa
Jasmine
Blackberry
Raspberry
Blueberry
Strawberry
Persicaria
Iris
Vinca Minor
Wallflower
Armeria
Thyme
Valarian
Erigeron

Erigeon
Beauty of Livermere poppies and another more orangey one that I've forgotten the name of
French Lavender
Salvia
Snapdragons just getting going
Phlox
Bowles Mauve and an orange wallflower just about hanging on
Pansies in hanging baskets
Verbena
Allium
One rose - the other is still in tight bud
Cistus
Black-eyed Susan has three flowers!

Although it sounds like a lot, the garden isn't anything like as packed with blooms as it usually is in May. Funnily enough, April was better, with tulips, euphorbia, narcissi, camellia, the rose thats still blooming, wisteria and clematis.

Tiny front garden and only planted these a year ago. Very happy!

I'm quite far north so behind much of the country. Still have the last tulips clinging on but also have alliums, poppies, honesty, heuchera, peonies (just about), violas, wallflowers (looking very sad, not sure what's up there) anemones, phlox, geraniums, azaleas, rhododendrons, forget-me-nots, brunnera, dicentra.

Roses and hydrangeas still tightly in bud and lavender barely doing anything yet.

roses
red campion
erigeron karvinskianus
valerian officianalis
centranthus ruber - both red and white
aquelegia
foxgloves
salvia hotlips and cherry lips
hardy geraniums
oxeye daisies
peonies
allium

Foxgloves, aquilegia, a variety of perennial poppy, Hardy geraniums, French lavender,clematis, honeysuckle, perennial cornflower, green alkanet, roses,hosta, rhododendron,campanula.
Forget me nots, azaleas and sweet woodruff have just finished.

I think I also have feverfew starting to flower but a bit late now to shift my bum and look.
My suggestions for very easy flowers for around this time are clematis, aquilegia, French lavender, Hardy geraniums and foxgloves. You can't really go wrong with them.
Feverfew is great as are calendula. Like aquilegia, they self seed freely.

It’s beautiful! Thank you!

Lots and lots of foxgloves.
Some poppies - no idea what kind but very delicate foliage. Chunky-leaved poppies are coming.
My snowball tree (proper name?) has just finished, as have my azaleas.

My tulips all died over winter and so I fear the same has happened to my incredible dahlias.

In beds - roses, peonies, ranunculus and tree peonies. Alliums on their last innings. Ditto rhododendrons.

I’ve just planted lots of dahlias and cornflowers.

Geranium Rozanne started last week which I’m happy about. It’s once of my favourite plants.

Veronica is flowering and nepeta Purrsian Blue has just started too.

We also own the world’s fussiest rose (David Austin Summer Song) which has finally fully flowered after the better part of 10 years and 3 relocations (pot to part shade to something approximating Mediterranean blazing sun).

Just a very deep purple/blue iris I saved from our garden reno out of curiosity and I'm so pleased I did - in the one little corner I've started planting up, it looks stunning with all the greenery, sometimes less is more.

Roses and peonies are just starting.
Azaleas and rhododendrons are pretty well over.
Geraniums, alliums and bleeding heart are in flower. I have pelargoniums in pots to add some colour.