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.

I'm midlands and currently have alliums just finishing, geums, aquilegia, rhododendron, azalea, nemesia, beautiful peonies, welsh poppies, delphinium just coming into flower, tradescantia and like PP several clumps of geranium Rozanne starting to bloom - they are one my favourites too!

Aliums
wisteria
rhododendrons
rock rose
hebe
lupins
peonies (some have gone over already)
azaelas
some of the earlier roses
flag iris
forgetmenots
nepeta
cornflower
geramiums
ranunculus
honeysuckle
aquilegia
hydrangeas
lavender is just starting

Midlands

Campanula, several roses, clematis, alliums, cosmos, poppies, cornflowers, forget-me-not, lilac & peonies.

I'm envious of all of your gardens, especially roses!

I seem to be in a bit of a flowering gap, got Aquilegia and something called Artist's paintbox currently but everything else is still in bud. Lots of pretty foliage though. This is the first year my peonies should flower so I have lots of hope, couple more weeks and it'll be glorious!

A fuck ton of dandelions and weeds. I was very tempted to leave one big clump of weeds in cos they had lovely pink flowers on them. But they were in the way when I was painting my fence so out they came. No idea how they've grown cos a gentle tug lifted them out of the concrete they'd come through. I do however when I find the inspiration to finish de weeding the rest of the garden have a little wildflower card although it's probably too late to plant that this year.

@IBegYourBiggestPardon wildflowers will still flower if planted now, pop it in the fridge until you are ready to use them as some need a cold blast to germinate.

Just a word of warning from someone who intentionally ended up with a meadow garden, even a fairly small wildflower patch spreads over the years so if you aren't ok with that, and/or very proud of a weed free lawn plant them elsewhere.

Roses
Wisteria is just finishing and has been spectacular this year
A self seeded foxglove
Lilac has just finished
Lavender
Geranium
A pond Iris which I have in a pot (yet to create a pond)

Roses nowhere near ready here,neither are the foxgloves or my potted geraniums. The rain and the slugs have put paid to most things.

Looking best in mine ATM are
Beautiful Peony pink one the white is a let down
Geums
Salvias
Candelabras
Fox gloves
Irises
But the weather is ruining things.

Working backwards through my May pictures.

• Deutzia
• Alliums
• Perennial geranium
• Clematis
• Aquilegia

• iris
• wallflowers
• aquilegia
• peony
• violas

• toadflax
• clematis
• Rose
• cistus
• verbascum

(a week ago)

• Weigela
• Canterbury bells x 2
• geum (early & will continue)

Snails and slugs mostly. It’s so wet, they are taking over the world.

• Delphiniums x 3
• foxgloves

Roses and clematis.

The alliums went over already. Ceanothus starting to fade

Geums, peonies and Oxeye daisies are a long way from blooming yet for me.

Yes, I forgive have live purple clematis out at the moment over an arch.

I am most excited though about my hydrangeas which I’ve abused through ignorant pruning over the last 2 years, but now they are absolutely covered in buds (I have a whole deep bed devoted to them). I’m hoping for a blowsy show this year.

It's the very end of autumn here in Melbourne:

Salvia "Anthony Parker"
Black-eyed Susan*
Crucifix orchids in orange, coral and magenta*
Bougainvillea in white, yellow and magenta
Slipper orchid
Cymbidium orchid
Abutilon*
Jade plant
Lantana*
Swiss cheese plant
Grevillea of various kinds*
Banksia birthday candles
Coastal banksia
Silver banksia

Everything with a * flowers continually all year round.

I've never seen a swiss cheese plant in flower, how big do they have to be before they flower?

Scabiosa, strawberries, alchemilla mollis, foxgloves, forget me nots

Starting:
Cosmos, nepeta, campanula

Peonies, roses, geraniums

Our roses are, and lavender is threatening too!

Ceanothus is flowering it’s socks of still, it’s been amazing this year
self seeded foxgloves
californian poppies self seeded
candelabra primula bright pink
roses just starting
climbing hydrangea
perennial geraniums
alliums (highly recommend)

I get cuttings from friends and trawl garden centres in months when I need some colour.

Early roses, alliums, foxgloves, salvias, philadelphus, geraniums, forsythia

@Singleandproud thank you I'll do that. I was thinking of just buying a large planter at some point and sticking it in there. The size of the card is probably only around the size of a 50p piece. The only other option would be to fill the gap between where my garden ends and the fence of the garden opposite starts. Technically it's still my part of the garden. There is soil in there already cos that's where half of the weeds grow but it doesn't look like it's very deep. Part of me does wonder if I should just not bother with them. I seem to kill everything I try to grow