We really had the weather here in Scotland on sunday, and I went out to check out the blooms around our garden. I dont know the names of all the plants, and the majority were planted by previous owners, but we enjoy them !
This lovely bush above is coming out full on orange. We have a few of them - they are quite thorny, but look lovely. Its next to the stump of an old walnut tree that we had to have taken down a few years back. It was massive and half dead. Huge limbs were kept falling off it with the risk of injuring or killing someone, so we had to get a tree surgeon in to cut it down which was a real shame.
Thats a closeup of the same type of plant (I think its similar anyway)- quite pretty.
We get a lot of ferns, and they absolutely go wild in the first week or so of May where they seem to grow crazy style. This is some of them starting to grow ready for that wild bloom in May. I love how they are all curled up.
We did plant the one above. I think its a clematis. Its actually growing along a fence which you can barely see now - and that was the idea - to bring some colour to our wooden fences !
I've no idea about the one above - but its lovely !
I'm pretty sure thats an azalea above. We bought it at Oban Highland games for £2 a few years back ! Its coming out quite nicely.
The pic above shows what I would call jurassic rhubarb. It grows massive and dies back to nothing each year. When we first got the place back in 2011, there was only the one plant - the one in the bottom right, and its self seeded a few others - one in the centre, and then one up to the left of it.
I think these are tulips - happy to be corrected. Out in full bloom now.
I assume the above are blue bells. We get a ton of these each year, I think they are wild flowers.
The pic above is not great, but its one of our wisterias. We bought two and planted them at the same time. This one went crazy and took over the whole place, while the other one hardly grew at all. This one is covered in buds, and so will be flowering quite soon - it should look stunning noting that it stretches out about 10-20 foot in each direction along our fence line from where we planted it.
Another one above that I've no idea what it is. I'm sure we've had it for about 15 years and its even moved house with us. Its also got a pine tree seedling in there now that has managed to seed itself !
The above pic shows one of our many whin bushes. You will find these all over Scotland. They are quite prickly. The branches always look withered and dried which is funny considering how much rain we get here in Scotland.
I think the one above is a form of rhododendron, but am happy to be corrected. Its in full bloom now - fairly early in the season.
And the one above could be a cherry blossom or an apple tree - not sure which, although it is one we planted. If you look closely enough at it, you can see the wisteria I was talking about, which has spiraled itself around this tree - it really is taking over.
And above is a couple of our trees casting some nice shadows in the sunlight.
It was such a lovely day and I really enjoyed seeing all the plants in flower - it was quite relaxing checking them all out. A great way to spend some time on a sunday !!
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It looks beautiful! We had a tree like that too, i miss it, but it was just getting too dangerous. We had to have it cut down. We had some really nice weather on Saturday, then the rain came.
Beautiful ! I think the top yellow one next to the old walnut could well be Scotch Broom.
The bluebells might be Spanish rather than Native - they tend to be a lot more vigorous, to the point where I'm starting to treat them as a weed. At some point I'll dig some up and experiment with the juice from the bulbs, apparently they used to use it as a glue in bookbinding.
The unknown thing in the blue pot is likely to be Pieris Japonica - we've got one, it's one of my favourite things in the garden. It also turns out to be toxic if eaten. But then when I look up the stuff I've got, I might as well declare it to be officially a Poison Garden - I've got Lords & Ladies, Firesticks (caper spurge), Enchanters Nightshade, Foxgloves (digitalis), and goodness knows what else that really shouldn't be eaten or rubbed on the skin !
The plants gross well in your place, here in us most of the grass and trees are dying because of extreme heat but praise God it rained the whole day.