Blooming NOW! May 2020

Taking a walk around my allotment plots, just LOOK what I saw … ki ni mo ri!

I was gifted the sight and smell of so many flowers this May. Roses, irises, geums, peonies, lupins, sisyrinchiums, various kinds of poppy and lily, clematis and various flowering trees have joined camellias and many others that started blooming earlier this spring.

Wildlife has been teeming on and around my plots too. Birdsong of every kind fills the air, sparrows and their eggs, slow worms, frogs, rose chafer beetles. A large fox tearing through my plot, chasing a cat.

The weather has been sunny and generally warm, if dry. Watering has been an important task, particularly for roses and young edible crop seedlings. In a way, the lack of rain in recent weeks has been good for rose blooms, which can be spoiled (e.g. balling) by excessive wet and low sunshine, as well as diseases exacerbated by damp weather.

Here’s a teeny, tiny selection of my May-flowering gems. Enjoy!

As from June, I’ll be adding a focus on FOOD crops as we progress into and through summer. There’ll be plenty to look forward to!