May Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day

Actual flowers! May, June, July, August, and Sept. are the flower months here in northern New England, and so we begin. Yes, it may get down to freezing some nights, still (and snow and ice may fall for another couple of weeks, but I sure hope not), and we may run out of the house at 10 p.m. on any given night, like a few nights ago, with wads of plastic to cover lilacs and other tender buds and veggies, while the cat screams bloody murder in the house, because, chaos, but mostly, it’s spring here!

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The wildness of weeds:

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coltsfoot, 7 May
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violet with variegated leaves, 7 May
darkpurplevioletclosesideyard9May2018
purple violet, 9 May
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white violet, 15 May
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dandelions and violets in back lawn, 14 May
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dandelion with pollinator, 13 May
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dandelion with small red pollinator, 13 May
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dandelion, so round and sumptuous, 13 May
strawberryflowers13May2018
woodland strawberry flowers, 13 May

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Tulips — some are still starting to bloom:

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pink, 13 May
orangeyellowtulipsglowingsideyard13May2018
orange-yellow, 13 May
orangepurpletulipbackborder15May2018
orange-purple, 15 May
neonredtulipinside4May2018
neon red, 4 May

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Tiny checkered fritillaria:

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scarlet lily beetles on fritillaria stems, 13 May

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Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris):

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Lathyrus vernus (Spring pea bush), a great addition to the shade garden and the front garden:

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The pink buds of the weeping ‘Jade Red’ crabapple (Malus × scheideckeri ‘Red Jade’) and the ‘Olga Mezitt’ rhododendon are almost the same colour, at the same stage, and right next to each other, accidentally:

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weeping ‘Jade’ crabapple in pink bud
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pink buds of ‘Olga Mezitt’ rhododendron
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pink buds of weeping ‘Jade’ crabapple

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The flowers of the volunteer forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica? M. arvensis?and the planted brunnera are very similar:

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forget-me-not flowers, 15 May
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brunnera flowers, 15 May

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The two peach trees have lots of flowers on them this year.

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The hellebore are almost finished but were nicely prolific this year, with bumblebees around them the last couple of weeks.

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purple hellebore blossoms, 3 May
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bumblebee in white-flowered Hellebore foetidus, 8 May

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And a few other blooms:

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willow catkin, 8 May
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carex grass blooms, 13 May
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white bleeding heart flowers, 13 May
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daffodil in the rock wall, 13 May
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quince blooms in the rock wall, 13 May
CrimsonFansMukdeniaflowersbackborder15May2018
Mukdenia rossi ‘Crimson Fans’ blooms, 15 May

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Here’s more GBBD, hosted at May Dreams Gardens (central Indiana, 6a):
… Late to the Garden Party  (south coastal California, with a glut of flowers!)
Tony Tomeo (Santa Cruz Mountains, CA – zone 9)
danger garden (Portland, OR)
…. Commonweeder (Pat in Heath, MA) with iris, bleeding heart, primrose, fairybells …
Led Up the Garden Path (Devon, England)
… Rusty Duck, with so many gorgeous photos of gorgeous flowers (also in Devon, England)
A Guide to Northeast Gardening (Long Island, NY)
Edgy Gardener (Springfield IL – zone 5b)

3 comments

  1. Spring has definitely arrived! We’ve had some much colder nights than we are used to having in May which has made things a bit tense here too. It’s been a strange season. Enjoy all your emerging blooms and thank you for the link!

  2. Crabapples and quince. It must be nice. Both flowering crabapple and flowering quince grow here, but are rare, and much earlier. With so much blooming at the same time, they are underappreciated.

  3. I miss Bleeding Hearts! Mostly found here in CO at botanic gardens- they require too much supplemental water for a high plains home garden.

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