May in Our Small English Garden! Tour Lush Foliage & Lovely Flowers, Get a Top Tip for Maximum Space

Our May Garden is upliftingly lush and lovely, with late tulip ‘Blue Aimable’, salvia, Irises, poppies and pollinators on the tour of our small space. This month, our highlight flower is Salvia x sylvestnis ‘Viola Klose’, with dynamic spires of abundant violet-blue blooms and busy bees. Filmed garden jobs include dividing perennials Hesperantha ‘Pink Princess’ and Geranium ‘Rozanne’, to maximize flowering vigour, along with a slightly messy worm experiment that ultimately proves successful. I show how to enhance some overlooked plants in the garden, to elevate them into centre stage sweetness for a pretty indoor display. We share a top tier tip to maximize space in the garden by converting the cover of a water butt (or rain barrel) into a table top for plant pots. And, I will reflect on planting choices to consider what wasn't quite right and what is a complete delight in the garden. Thank you for joining us! *. CHAPTERS. * 0:00 Introduction & May Magic 2:35 Removing Tender Plants from Cover 4:04 Holly Blue Butterfly 4:50 Forthcoming Things ... 5:38 Assessing Tulip ‘Apricot Pride’ 6:37 Apple Blossom, Tree & Saxifrage 8:12 Iris Display 9:16 Iris ‘Mer Du Sud’ 10:03 Salvia sylvestris ‘Viola Klose’ 13:01 How to Divide Hesperantha ‘Pink Princess’ 16:00 Worm Fertiliser Experiment! 20:25 Aster x frikartii ‘Mönch’ 21:43 Dividing Geranium ‘Rozanne’ 23:46 Elevate Overlooked Plants 25:22 Top Tip To Maximize Space 28:57 Delightful Incidentals & Thank you! ATTRIBUTIONS * (Original images may be modified) Salvia Nemorosa Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Salvia pratensis LC0340 Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Top Barn, Walcot Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution Philip Halling / Top Barn, Walcot Liquid drop model of nuclear fission Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution BC Open Textbooks, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Papaver Orientale Pattys Plum Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution Rupweb, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Opium poppy Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution Louise Joly, one half of AtelierJoly, CC BY-SA 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Consolida ajacis Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Acacia pataczekii Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution A.M.Pataczek, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Nuclear Fission Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... File https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Attribution BC Open Textbooks, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons