Magnificent May, and More… from the garden

What a wonderful month May turned out to be. Obviously it's a month that signals the end of spring, and the slow, or in this case slightly quicker, meander into Summer. Verdant greens, olive tints, emerald and acid; foliage erupts alongside early flowers. The Forget me Nots were unforgettable (!), the Gladiolus × byzantinus HUGE and rich, the early roses show it to be ‘a good year for the roses’ (I love the original too but prefer Elvis C’s version). The Generous Gardener (David Austin of course) proving to be more than generous, so much so that now the June winds have come (never heard of them before!), the petals have made a mattress of delicious pinky cream on the soil beneath. Enough already, here are some pictures to prove my over-verdant verbage is well placed ;-)

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