The Squirrelhaven Woodland Garden is in full bloom. Compared with the photos from last year's post, things are slightly ahead this year and much, much larger. (Probably the result of all that rain last year.) With such an embarrassment of blooms, I decided to put them into collages. Click on any image to enlarge.
Left top to bottom: Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) (it wouldn't be May Bloom Day without one), Trillium grandiflorum, buds of Melianthemum racemosum f/k/a Smilacina racemosaCenter: Disporum sp.
Right: Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles sp.) still blooming but starting to form fruit, Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Left top: Tiarella 'Oakleaf;' left bottom: Thalictrum thalictroides f/k/a Anemonella thalictroides; Center: Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon media album)
Right: Epimedium niveum? and Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)
Right top to bottom: Brunnera 'Jack Frost,' Polemonium reptans 'Stairway to Heaven'Center top to bottom: Brunnera 'Looking Glass,' Brunnera 'Hadspen Cream,' and the last of the Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Right: Pulmonaria 'Roy Davidson' with a Hellebore
Top row: Corydalis 'Blackberry Wine' with Thalictrum thalictroides (Anemonella) 'Oscar Shoaf,' Labrador Violets (Viola labradorica), a big Allium whose name I've written down somewhere*Center: Phlox divaricata 'Plum Perfect'
Bottom row: Bearded Iris "IWHWIBTP" (It Was Here When I Bought The Property), Iris cristata 'Eco Little Bluebird,' Thalictrum 'Thundercloud' in bud.
Left top to bottom: Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) just starting to smoke, Hellebore, Iris siberica buds, Geranium macrorrhizumCenter top to bottom:Epimedium 'Lilafee,' Crabapple
Right: Thalictrum thalictroides f/k/a Anemonella rosea, Dicentra 'King of Hearts'
Top row: Heucherella 'Sunspot' with Phlox divaricata 'Clouds of Perfume,' Thalictrum/Anemonella 'Cameo,' Dicentra 'Bountiful,' not 'Zestful' as I've been calling it. (I found the tag when I pulled up some Lamium.)Center: Heucherella 'Burnished Bronze'
Bottom row: Geranium maculatum, Tiarella 'Pink Brushes,' Tiarella 'possibly Iron Butterfly'
Left top: Sedum kamtschaticum in bud, left bottom, Calycanthus floridus 'Athens' in budCenter: Celadine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)
Right: Little Merrybells (Uvularia perfoliata)
Left: Tree Peony (Peony suffruticosa possibly 'Chojuraku') in bud (edit. I just saw a photo of 'Chojuraku' on A Study in Contrasts. It doesn't look like mine, so I think mine might be 'Ofujinishiki.')Right top: in bud, Peony 'Mons. Jules Elie' (Yes, I've finally decided that's who it is.)
Bottom right: seedhead of Pulsatilla vulgaris
Things blooming but not shown: Geranium sylvaticum 'Mayflower' (identical to Geranium maculatum except for a slight difference in the leaf), and Viola soraria. The Columbines (Aquilegia vulgaris hybrids) and several Clematises are in bud.
While yellow seems to be the color of April, around here, pink is the color of May. Speaking of May, take a virtual trip to May Dreams Gardens to visit Carol, the host of Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.
*It's Allium aflatunense 'Purple Sensation.'
38 comments:
MMD, Wow! The garden looks wonderful...I wish I were standing there with coffee in hand of course, looking at the long view to your arbor~~ It's lovely. I have to start using this postcard format for bloom day posts...It really showcases the plants! Have a good Bloom Day! Gail
Such pretty flowers you have, your garden really must be gorgeous.
Happy GBBD!
Lovely, lovely, lovely. I like how you've shown us the blooms in collages by color. Thanks for joining in so faithfully!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
Oh my goodness. This is as pretty as a botanical garden. We will get to see this for real at SF?
Wow, you have a plethora of blooms! Love all the woodland goodies, esp. the shooting stras, which I hope will sprout soon in their WS-tray!!!
So much love for the shooting stars! Your garden is so beautiful and I also commend your record-keeping. I took a tour of my back 40 yesterday and realized that I can't remember half of the names.
I love how you've grouped them into colors. Everything looks fabulous!
Very cool stuff! I love that first picture with the arbor. It could be in a magazine. All the blooms look great!
My goodness, MMD, your garden is truly in glorious bloom! I love the first shot looking into your garden--it's beautiful. You've convinced me I need to plant more May bloomers. I may bookmark this post so I remember this fall what I could add to my garden. Thanks for sharing all of these!
So much and so beautiful. We are just starting lilac season, but in another week or so we should have a lot more to show. It is the trees that are blooming now - and the weeds.
So much growing! It's beautiful!
Quite a show. It's just lovely to see some of the plants I can't grow here. Love the Trillium (I'll try that again) and would so enjoy some Lily of the valley (not possible).
Happy bloom day!
Wow, you have a lot happening. I love all the natives, and would really like to see your tree peony when it blooms. Will you post a shot?
Wow! I'd say you've got blooms! Beautiful, and a great way to show them all. We're at least a week to 10 days ahead of the norm here in my part of NS, too. No complaints! ;)
It all looks beautiful! I especially like all the purples and blues. Those are probably my favorite colors for flowers. Happy Bloom Day!
Oh pretty, pretty. MMD, I can't wait to visit when we come to Chicago. Hey, I thought of you this a.m. when I saw two big Peter Rabbit cottontails in my garden. I ran them out and fixed the fence.~~Dee
I have really enjoyed my wander round your May flowers and my wish list has expanded !
You do have a wealth of blooms. I love your Brunnera Jack Frost, Tiarella, and Polemonium Stairway to Heaven. I've never grown them because I don't think in most years I could supply enough moisture. They certainly would do well this year. I may just take a chance on the Polemonium because I really like that foliage. Great post, MMD.
Marnie
Wow! You are indeed rich in blooms! Happy spring, cheers/Yvonne
Wow, look at your garden! You really have a multitude of things blooming right now. Your collages look great and you really combined the colors nicely MMD. :)
I love the flower/color collages!
Hi MMD, that is a basketload of blooms! All so pretty, so many blues, purples and whites, very soothing. I am excited to see the tree peony in bloom, a treat whenever or whatever it may be. :-)
Frances
Gail - yesterday would have been the day to stand outside with the coffee. Today is a little soggy.
Hi, Outside In, thanks for visiting.
Carol - it's fun to have thing worth showing. Thanks for coming up with Bloom Day.
PB - thanks. You can see it if you get here on the Thursday of Spring Fling. Hopefully, it will be a bit drier than it is right now.
Monica - I haven't had any seedlings from my Shooting Stars. I think I'm going to have to collect the seed this year.
Diane - I am all too aware of my memory's limitations, which is why I'm into record keeping. Shooting Stars have been a favorite of mine since childhood.
Thanks, JGH!
Dave - I'm blushing.
Rose - you can see the garden for yourself from that angle, if you want to climb on the kids play tower. I'll give you a boost.
Commonweeder - it's funny how the weeds always seem to be the first things blooming.
Hi, Meryl, thanks for visiting!
TM - if you only knew how I rip out that Lily of the Valley. It grows like a weed!
Helen - I'll not only post a shot of the Tree Peony if it blooms, I devote an entire post to it. (Maybe more than one.)
Nancy - we're really not ahead this year, it's just that last year was so far behind.
ROR - I'm really into purple & blue too.
Dee - did you chase the rabbits with a hoe?
Anna - Bloom Day is hazardous to the pocketbook.
R&L - my soil is very dry & well drained, so the Tiarella & Polemonium should do fine for you.
Yvonne - Happy Spring to you, too!
PG - thanks. I'm very sensitive to color.
Thanks, Katie, I'm glad my space saving solution turned out so well.
Thanks for the comment on my pelargonium. The tags on the plants were pretty generic, but one was called "Global Rose," so perhaps that's the one tinged with a lighter pink. It was the only one like it the garden center had.
I hope I don't break the play tower:) LOL, the word verification is "messism"--that pretty much describes everything around my house right now.
All your blooms are beautiful but I literally gasped when I saw your tree peony buds. Oh do I envy those buds!
MMD! Your yard is absolutely beautiful. I've had notice from Mr.SG that we cannot possibly travel to Michigan that week. So I went to bed last night, again scheming about a way to get to Chicago on Sunday the 31st. Oh, I am tired of acting like a pendulum.
I, too, credit last year's rains (and the wonderfully early warm weather) with the beauty and growth of this year's gardens! :-)
It sounds like you're having the perfect spring to show off your garden at Spring Fling. It does look like an embarrassment of riches. I can't wait to see Squirrelhaven in person.
I can't wait to see it in person!
The flowers are beautiful but I must also comment on your gorgeous grass. What kind is it?
You have a wonderful assortment of blooms! Lovely collages!
Thanks for the plant id and warning on the eastern waterspot. It did have a marking on the leaves. I will deadhead it and hope I get all the seeds. This friend of mine has a huge yard with lots of spready and invasive plants. She has given me plants that I looked up and decided to pull out after finding out they are invasive. I don't have room or patience for invasive plants, especially if they don't stay pulled. Have a great weekend!
Wow! What a lot to see... beautiful flowers and post!
I love that first shot through the garden. You worked hard on these pictures and the groupings are a nice way to view your flowering plants. Can't wait to visit and see your garden in person!
It looks like you've really coordinated your colors beautifully. I wish I had done half as well.
Everything looks so healthy! Nice blooms here and the first wide photo is very nice.
Frances - I try not to count my Tree Peony blooms before they open, there's always the danger of a late frost.
Rose - thanks for the name of the Pelargonium!
IG - I'm happy the Tree Peony buds are beautiful. There might not be any blooms this year, depending on how they did with the cold last night.
Shady - I hope you can make it!
Pam - we were having close to a perfect spring until last night. :-(
Nancy - I hope it lives up to expectations.
Phllip - the lawn is a shade mix of Kentucky Bluegrass & Fescue. But don't be fooled, it looks that green because it's May and we've had a lot of rain. Come August, it will most likely be tan & crunchy.
Sue - happy to help.
Carol - thanks!
Layanee - I'm getting excited about having you here.
EAL - what? I love the video.
Darla - things always look good in May. Come July or August....
You have certainly got an embarrassment of riches right now, don't you? So lovely. I didn't realize until now that I'll get a chance to see your garden in person at CSF, yippee! I do hope your late frost hasn't hurt anything. But since there's nothing you can go about it, you're right not to worry. Look forward to meeting you in person soon.
The Calycanthus floridus caught my eye. It's beautiful! I wonder how well they would grown in my garden.
I also like the pulsatilla seedhead. I've tried twice to grow this flower from seed, with no success, (no germination).
One day I hope to have as many kinds of spring ephemerals as you do. I liked it better when anemonellas were anemonellas.
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