May

Corrina took the camera around the garden yesterday and captured the promising start that May always provides. Some of the promise was short lived thanks to high winds that followed and smashed through our borlotti beans and knocked the broad beans and the garlic around too. We always seem to get hit by high winds at least once in May, usually in the last week, but they've not damaged garlic before!

The garlic (Albigensian) and the Borlotti (Solista) before they were beaten by the spring breeze.
The bamboo's throwing up new shoots and they're growing a centimetre of two every day at the moment.

The Clematis Montana (Warwickshire Rose) has recovered from the hard prune I gave it last year after the patio was laid and I'm hoping it will soon be covering the shed.

Meanwhile, the Alliums are almost out in time for Chelsea

The rose (Dublin Bay) outside the front door is looking better than ever - not a hint of disease or pest damage (yet)!

And finally the Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' is already the star of the fernery