Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2017

Every 15th of the month,  I blog about what is blooming in my upstate New York (zone 5b) garden.

This month marks the end of my sixth year of participating monthly in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.  I hope you will join us, too.

Until the last week, I thought that spring was going to zoom by so quickly that I would have nothing to post.  No tulips, no daffodils, no grape hyacinths, no cherry blossoms.  I even thought that our lilacs (normally barely starting to bloom now) would be gone.  Everything, due to a mild winter, had sped up.  But then, spring paused.

Our weather has been unseasonably cool.  Cool, and rainy.  Yesterday, we got marble sized hail.

In between the rain and thunderstorms, I took some pictures.  I decided to put some of the flower pictures into a collage, including flowers from a couple of my hanging baskets.  It's only the second collage I've ever made, and I hope you enjoy it.

Here are some other flowers in bloom today, starting with columbine.

Lilacs (one of three bushes I have).  Another bush is in the collage above.

A basket of pansies I made up last month has turned out so lovely.

My son's Mother's Day gift basket - shocking pink geraniums.  This will look so wonderful in my front yard.

Night sky petunia (I hope that isn't a supernova over on the right).

My pink bleeding heart, a little drowned out.

And finally, my silver frost brunneria, which is threatening to take over my back yard.

Now that you've seen my yard, please visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens and see what is blooming all over the world.