Walled Garden Volunteers' Blog May 2024
/It’s May, Chelsea Flower Show this week, and everywhere gardens are exploding with blooms after the long grey spell we’ve endured for what seems like forever!
Our Walled Garden has responded to the sudden warmth, and is putting on quite a show for everyone, gardeners glorying in praise from visitors as our plants show off!
Just to show you what I mean…
Though irises are in bloom for just a few weeks, they are briefly spectacular! No apologies for including so many photos in this Blog!
We’ve been lucky that in the short time we’ve worked in the garden, we’ve been given some beautiful irises from three different collections.
Our challenge is to use the irises in our mixed borders without their being smothered by other plants during the growing season. Iris rhizomes like to be baked - and we struggle to give them space to soak up the sun.
Last autumn/ winter we did some serious sorting out of certain plants which were getting a bit too adventurous in the Bonkers Border, in the process uncovering a few irises which were being stifled…
The iris display this May is possibly the best we’ve had so far. I can’t resist including a few more delicious flower images!
True, other aspects of the garden are looking good, too- some spectacular lupins, and the meadow in an ever-changing display of wildflowers:
What more can we say? The Museum Walled Garden is a delight this May - and a visit is completely free of charge.
