May is the prime time for our garden, the season when it is at its most impressive and beautiful, because of our two huge cherry trees. They’re taller than the house and flank it on two sides.
When the cherry trees were joined by a large bird cherry bush (prunus padus, hägg, toomingas) and a plum tree, half the garden was covered in white blooms.
But we also had lots of primroses, both the ordinary wild yellow ones and some lusher-looking red ones (possibly planted) and orange hybrids
and daisies, here camouflaged between fallen cherry blossoms
and periwinkles
and various weeds which I’m sure would have been removed long ago in a stricter garden, but which I found quite decorative.
By the end of the month, the lilacs were blooming, too.
Hi, the yellowish plant might be one of the 29 subspecies of the wild Alchemilla Vulgaris, or the more poetic name i Swedish: daggkåpa. The garden variant is much bigger than the wild species; both show a diamond of dew or rain in the middle of the leaf bowl. As the leaves are not visible on the picture, this is a guess.
The whitish plant looks like Thlaspi alpestre,Backskärvfrö, or a close relative.
Best regards, Britt-Marie
Yes, I too concluded that the white one was Thlaspi of some sort. And the yellow ones could well be daggkåpa – I didn’t look for leaves but I think we have those in that part of the garden.