It's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, and May is embarrassing in its richness. How do I resist the urge to show every flower in all its glory?
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| Pacific Coast Iris |
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| Last spring (a year ago) when I divided and replanted my PCIs, I lost track of what was what. Somehow I managed to put the right color Iris with the right Heuchera. |
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| The lines act as guide lines for bees, leading them into the flower where they'll find pollen. I watched as one bee flitted from flower to flower, doing just that. |
Two more fortuitous plant combos:
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| Antique rose PCI with Gold Heart Dicentra, a gold-spotted Farfugium and a gold-edged Hosta. |
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| Gold and burgundy PCI ensnared by a bronze-leaved Carex |
Nearby in the shade garden:
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| Diphyllea cymosa |
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| Podophyllum pleianthum |
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| Arisaema triphyllum |
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| Sinopodophyllum hexandrum |
And in the sun (of which we've had a lot lately):
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| Rheum palmatum |
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| A PNW native Delphinium |
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| Geum triflorum (grown from seed a few years ago) |
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| Hardy Geranium Vision Light Pink (also grown easily from seed), flowering right now throughout my garden in great quantities |
And in other parts of the garden:
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| Enkianthus |
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| Lewisia |
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| Aquilegia 'Clementine Red' |
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| Thalictrum ichangense |
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| Lewisia in the gravel garden |
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| Trillium |
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| Rosemary |
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| Camassia and yellow Corydalis |
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| Verbsacum phaeum |
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| Centaurea montana |
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| Aquilegia |
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| Allium |
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| Lonicera involucrata |
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| A few last Epimedium flowers |
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| Anthriscus sylvestris and Ostrich fern |
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| Tiarella |
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| Shrubby Clematis |
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| The wall that runs along the border between my garden and my neighbor Mary's is looking quite lush and colorful. That's not weeds at the base, it's this year's California poppies, sprouted from the seeds produced by last year's plants. |
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| Further down on that same wall, Saponaria ocymoides and Geranium macrorhizum |
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| Ninebark (you can see the shrub in the previous photo far at the back on the right) |
That's not everything, I could go on and on. But it's enough.
Carol Michel at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. Go to her post
here, and check out all the other posts from bloggers around the world who are celebrating their flowers.
