[Hilary]

FUCHSIA PINK FLOWERS IN MAY

1 Crupina crupinastrum, Xylokeriza, Corinthia Greece
2 Ditto
3 Gladiolus, Corfu, Greece
4 Pelargonium peltatum, Kiato, Corinthia, Greece

I sometimes wonder where I get the names from, please let me know if I have made a mistake

[Hilary]

PINK FLOWERS IN MAY
1 Capparis spinosa, Corinth
2 Delphinium, Kiato, Corinthia
3 Dolichos lablab, Ai Theodori, Corinthia
4 ditto seed pod
5 Pelargonium, Kiato, Corinthia
6 Rosa floribunda, ‘Sexy Rexy’, Rose Garden, Schinos, Corinthia

Again all the photo were taken in Greece

[David Dickinson]

Hi John

Sorry I haven't been very active here recently. Working from home takes so much more time than teaching in the class room! Won't go into details :-(

Your plant certainly looks like a Bidens I  bought a similar Bidens 'Hot and Spicy' this year.

[John J]

Thanks for that, David. I don't know where these plants have suddenly appeared from, neither of us could recall seeing them on offer anywhere before.

[Charithea]

Thank you Hilary for the photos of your Fuchsia pink flowers and your Pink flowers, they are beautiful and brighten up tha day. I love the Crupina crupinastrum very much. It is so delicate and airy it makes me feel that it should be embroidered on a cushion.

[Hilary]

Embroidered on a cushion. By coincidence today I noticed that a cushion I had embroidered about twelve years ago shows spring flowers and strawberries . I will snap it later

[Hilary]

BROWN FLOWERS IN MAY
The title might be a bit misleading since I don’t have many photos of brown flowers.
There is a strip of garden in the yard of the block of flats where we live. Over the years various bushes and trees have been planted

1  Robinia pseudoacacia, planted by the original committee over 25 years ago.
It is pruned radically in February or March
2 Pinus, the junior school children, about 20 years ago, came home from school with tiny trees to plant. The Forestry Commission must have visited their school. Three pine trees thrived while a few other trees just didn’t make it.
3  Prunus armeniaca. One of our neighbours planted an apricot stone and it produced this tree which at the moment if full of fruit. However, the fruit usually drops off
4 Cercis siliquastrum, My husband planted this for me
5 And now a flower. Stapelia grandiflora seen in Ancient Corinth, Greece

[Hilary]

 WHITE FLOWERS IN MAY   6-10

6 Delphinium, Kiato, Corinthia Greece
7 Echinops oxygona, Corinth Greece
8 Hyoscyamus albus, Corinth, Greece
9 Nigella arvensis, Corinth Greece
10 White rose, Madrid, Spain

[Hilary]

RED FLOWERS IN MAY 6 -10

6 Red lilies in a yard, Corinth, Greece
7 Papaver somniferum. Kiato, Greece
8 Disocactus ackermannii, Xylokeriza, Corinthia, Greece
9 Rosa Papa Meilland, Madrid, Spain
10 Wild flower and the Gulf of Corinth, Greece

[Hilary]

ORANGE FLOWER IN MAY 6-10

6 Dahlia, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
7 Mimulus, Ancient Corinth. Greece
8 Bougainvillea, Corinth, Greece
9 Dianthus caryophyllus, Kiato, Corinthia, Greece
10 Rose, Ancient Corinth, Greece,

[David Dickinson]

What a beautiful rose that last one is Hilary. Any idea what it might be, exactly? The cream, peachy one.

[David Dickinson]

Earlier in this thread I said that I was waiting for some Freesia 'Blue Moon' to flower. This is what came out :-(

[Hilary]

David,
 I have no idea about the rose
We took a walk round the village a couple of years ago and I snapped away at all the flowers

[Hilary]

YELLOW FLOWERS IN MAY 6-10

6 Cineraria maritima, Sparta Lakonia, Greece
7 Nerium oleander. Corinth, Greece
8 Grevillea robusta. Nicosia, Cyprus
9 Crepis, Corinth, Greece
10 Jacobaea maritima, Kifissia, Attica, Greece

[Hilary]

GREEN IN MAY 6-10

6 Echinops graecus, Corinth, Greece
7 Salix, Nemea, Corinthia, Greece
8 Araucaria heterophylla, Corinth, Greece
9 Tamarix, Corinth, Greece
10 Ficus retusa, Corinth, Greece

How fresh and green the trees look while everything else is drying up