Flowers of May

[mmegaera]

Otherwise known as, why spring is my favorite time of year, hands down.

First, my front flower bed.

Blue lithodora, pink/purple thyme, yellow sedum, cranesbill seedlings, iris foliage, a lavender creeping campanula, and the last creeping phlox blossoms.

This is at the very front end of my flower bed.   I love the tapestry this has become.

The mama round-leaved cranesbill, and Tiny Rubies dianthus.

This is about halfway down the bed to my front door.  The ferny foliage in the upper lefthand corner is threadleaf coreopsis, and the tall spiky plants in the upper center are lilies.

The only iris that bloomed this year, alas.

And, no, I don’t have his name.  But isn’t he gorgeous?

This is the backyard.

Hosta and coral bells — if I ever knew the variety names, I don’t anymore.

Another cool combination.

Whoa, Nelly. Nelly Moser clematis climbing the fence and the vine maple.

This was a tiny seedling about six years ago.  Those flowers are bigger than my hand.

The purple clematis (no variety name, alas).

This was the clematis I thought I’d dug up a couple of years ago.  Apparently I missed some root fragments.  I figure if it survived that, it deserves to stay.

Columbines are supposed to be blue. I also have a yellow and a white that aren’t in bloom yet.

I love columbines.

And that is May in my garden this year.  Well, except for the bleeding heart that ate New York, but something fell on it and crunched part of it, so it’s not looking so great right now, alas.  It is still blooming, however.

Mirrored from M.M. Justus -- adventures in the supernatural Old West.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Coral bells! I hope the ones at the M-i-L's house survived 10 feet of snow (give or take a couple feet) being piled on them. Wonder if we could drag some over here or if the milkweed would crowd them out... (Here, Monarch, Monarch, Monarch! Lookie, milkweed!)

[mmegaera]

I bet they did. We had coral bells in Ohio that were regularly buried under several feet (once you get past about two feet, it's all the same, pretty much) and basically made like rabbits, productively.

The thing about coral bells is that it's getting harder and harder to find just plain coral bells. They've been hybridized to a faretheewell, and finding ones that don't have peach and purple foliage (not flowers, foliage) is almost impossible these days.

[archangelbeth]

Huh!

These are pure, I'd say... We transplanted one to the condo, many years ago, and it did well. Dunno if it got kept whenever the new owners got it, of course.

[mmegaera]

Mine are hybrids, but they're about ten years old, so before the hybridizing went completely crazy. Here's a link so you can see what I mean. It's like the flowers don't even matter (although the best part of coral bells AFAIC is that they're a hummingbird magnet).

http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/cgi-bin/track/99c0fbef+heuchera.html

[archangelbeth]

Yeesh!

Hm. I dunno if the ones that she's got are like http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/31398-product.html# or not.

[mmegaera]

That one's a miniature. Mine are full-sized.

[archangelbeth]

...miniature coral bells.

I'll... just be over here going bwah.

[mmegaera]

[g]

[hedda62]

Do you ever post to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day? It's fun to share and see what other people have blooming, and you don't have to be primarily a garden blogger to do it.

I admire the tenacity of your clematis. :)

[mmegaera]

I've never heard of it before. I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, if you're going to plant clematis, be really, really sure that's where you want it. Trust me. I dug a root ball about two feet all around out of the ground and thought I'd got enough of it to kill it off [g].